http://gawker.com/5588556/the-embarrassing-racist-satire-of-tea-party-leader-mark-williams
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/14/mark-williams-tea-party-express-naacp-racist_n_646989.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzB6Rj-AjQ8
Mark Williams must believe all Black people talk like that, including Ben Jealous, a Columbia graduate and Rhodes Scholar.
The word "massa", if you're not familiar with it, is a bastardization of the word "master" (as in slave master) and has its roots in the derogatory, minstrel-like depictions of Blacks during the 19th-Century and during the days of the Jim Crow Laws. See e.g. the cartoon above ( via [www.arthist.umn.edu] ). It's telling that Mark Williams chooses to use that word twice as he lampoons a highly distinguished African American. In the minds of racist degenerates like Mark Williams, that's what all Black people look and talk like. To Mark Williams, Blacks, no matter how accomplished, should grovel to their massa.
What's really depressing is that our current political and social discourse has become so skewed by the likes of Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, that instances, like this, of unvarnished racism no longer disqualify the author from receiving a televised forum in front of a national audience (courtesy of Fox News, of course). A___ like this are plucked from the fringe and legitimized. And, by legitimizing them and, by implication, their beliefs, concepts such as racial equality and social justice are made to seem less legitimate.
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Sweet Fluff 03:13 AM
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I am so disgusted. Just keep it coming guys. The combined intelligence of Williams and Glenn Beck equals that of the average dear tick. Reply
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MartyVega 03:06 AM
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The Tea Party just can't seem to get their position straight. So now they're comparing themselves to the abolitionists who used Federal power to enforce anti-slavery legislation on the states? So that means that those of us who believe in the need for a strong central government should be whistling Dixie? Reply
Valkyrie607 02:53 AM
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I can't wait to hear all the lame excuses for Williams. He was trying to make a funny, see? So that means all those racist-sounding things he said aren't actually racist, because he was JOKING! On second thought, I can wait. Reply
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arno michaels 1 hour ago (12:34 PM)
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I don't believe that Mark Williams and his supporters make such ridiculous statements because they hate black people. In their world, where white Christians are portrayed as infallible heroes we should all be falling to our knees to thank on a daily basis, the NAACP are seen as agitators standing in the way of a return to the good 'ole days.What Williams fails to realize (along with Palin, and Beck, and Limbaugh, and Coulter, etc.), is that the NAACP was the foundation for the Civil Rights Movement, and that many of it's members risked and in some cases gave their lives to facilitate perhaps the most important step forward this country has taken since emancipation. Daisy Bates, leader of the legendary Little Rock Nine, also happened to be President of the Arkansas branch of the NAACP. Here's a historic letter from her to NAACP executive director Roy Wilkins, circa 1957, documenting what the brave kids who defied segregation had to endure: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/07/little-rock-nine.html
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Dick Gazinia 9 hours ago (4:41 AM)
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This the neo KKK and they've been emboldened by the republican party and the Sarah Palin wingnut fringe. Anyone who has a brain can clearly see this. This is a small percentage of white americans who really have lost their "country" and the way it was run for the last four hundred years. The change that they recognize is destroying them from within and their complete loss of power and control is allowing their repressive racism to come through in just about everything they do. It's a good thing to allow these people to lay out their true feelings and finally come out of the closet. It's better to know who these people are so we can deal with them appropriately when the time comes. Don't be afraid of these cowards of history because like everything else in time these haters will be history.Peace
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zaurakdigis
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The really interesting thing about all this is whites are the biggest group on welfare.Certainly all the abusers of welfare I know are white, not hispanic or black.
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zaurakdigis
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@yakyakyak69 , you are just plain ignorant Affirmative Action does not give special treatment, it requires that qualified people are not discriminated against. Which happens widely even with the the law, people are required to prove that they have been discriminated against because of disability, sex, or race. It is about much more than race, although the track record of discrimination against blacks is long and overt.
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windycityrodeo
1 month ago
"Tea Party" is a Big Lie. It's not the simple 1700s. We now have millions of life-saving water-food-air-safety, police, military, etc. provided by "big government" (We The People). During the real Tea Party there were no freeways, bridges nor school that allow real tax-paying patriots to work & contribute to the superior pregress this nation has. I've never whined about paying taxes as without regulations many of us wouldn't be here. Due to Cheney's deregulations the Gulf is an oil pool."
SteelRock73
3 months ago
Jesse Ventura hit every subject dead on in his book & I share his opinion on the tea party movement too. Where were the tea party people when Bush suspended habius corpus,trashed the Fourth Amendment in the Bill of Rights with the patriot act, & started this trillion dollar war on a bunch of lies.
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http://blog.reidreport.com/2010/07/tea-partier-mark-williams-writes-open-letter-to-lincoln-from-the-coloreds/
whoknew on July 16th, 2010 8:02 pm
Despite prevailing stereotype, Whites, not Blacks, collect greatest share of public aid dollars
SAY the word “welfare” and immediately the image of the lazy Black wellare queen who breeds for profit surfaces in the minds of those who have come to believe the hideous stereotype. It is a myth that persists despite government figures and authoritative studies showing that Whites overwhelmingly reap the lion’s share of the dole.
The image of the Black “welfare cheat,” public aid advocates say, is based on misconceptions about poor minorities. The notion, they say, comes from society’s resentment of seemingly ablebodied people getting paid for doing nothing.
For some people, there is a need to believe that there are professional welfare recipients who are deliberately trying to get not only what they need to survive, but more,” says Anne D. Hill, director of programs for the National Urban League. “People say to themselves: ‘I work. How come this person who appears to be healthy isn’t working?’ We tend to equate our condition with others without fully knowing their circumstances.”
Hill and other welfare supporters argue that numbers, and not erroneous stereotypes, tell the real story about public assistance clients: Some 61 percent of welfare recipients are White, while 33 percent are Black, according to 1990 Census Bureau statistics, the latest figures available.
The federal government defines welfare as all entitlement programs funded through taxes. These programs, listed as “direct benefit payments for individuals” by the Office of Management and Budget, make up $730 billion or 43 percent of the $1.47 trillion the government will spend this fiscal year.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n2_v48/ai_12970819/
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Luckie on July 17th, 2010 11:40 am
Mark Williams can attempt to back-pedal on the Lincoln Letter & deflect attention from its core meaning.
There is no “olive branch” offering that prompted his removal of that vile commentary, just clarity that he had, without forethought, showed the world his hand. He put all his darkest, deepest, sickest assumptions regarding African-American people, on the table.
Thank you. Now we know the 1st person who should be repudiated from the Tea Party is in fact, its leader – Mark Williams.
The Lincoln Letter will forever be an example of just how sick the nature of hatred is.
And Jealous is the Uncle Tom? Williams could not be counted on to stand by his words (unedited), admit wrong-doing & offer an apology to the millions of African-American people he offended.
He’s many things but a “leader” ain’t one of them.
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Mac on July 17th, 2010 12:49 pm
I thank you for assembling these comments linearly, and using the direct quotes — I’ve seen reports on the news the past few days that mentioned the letter but was completely unaware of its contents — the media (as usual) has under reported this story, and the excerpts they used were the most “sane” tidbits from the whole statement. The man’s words speaks volumes and there is very little to add. Other than because a person makes the statement “it dosen’t make me a racist just because…” does NOT mean the person is not Racist. These antebellum revelers seem to think that the period was all lemonade and field songs. Please Remember that Fire is never satisfied. My concern is the Tea Party is acutally exacerbating racial tension. The challenge is for the humanist to remember our humanity in order to buffer the racist on the extremes. After reading that letter, I could be inspired to produce the letter’s polar opposite, and write a letter to Lee — the problem is that would potentially polaraize non-racists whites, who themselves are not racist — but feel compelled to defend themselves from attack. Like wise the Tea party is making moderate blacks more extreme, and with statements like this how should the people respond?(From the national spokesman of the movement) I personally disagreed with the NAACP addressing the Tea Party ( Just didn’t think it was appropriate, and I felt it would create more problems than it could solve) — However after reading Mr. Williams response — I was obviously wrong. I hope the naacps response is simply ” The Tea Party is a racist organization” — no longer about ‘elements within the movement’ when the Spokesperson expresses himself so clearly.
BTW I’m black, college grad(4th gen:HBCU) professional, own my home, Drive a car as old as I am, and no, no flat screens in my house, not one — but I’m still the lazy nigger Williams describes. And judging by the 7 times I was stopped without a cause this past year — “society” agrees.
If I loose my grip on humanity, it is because society has snatched it from me.
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