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Thread #120208   Message #3003856
Posted By: Sawzaw
10-Oct-10 - 02:24 PM
Thread Name: BS: KKK/Tea Party Day
Subject: RE: BS: KKK/Tea Party Day
Yeah, the Tea Party has been challenged to denounce racism by the NAACP and their response??? Nuthin'... And more nuthin'...


Webb appeared on the CBS program Sunday morning to announce that Williams and the Tea Party Express -- which has held a series of events across the country to generate support for the movement -- no longer were part of the National Tea Party Federation.

"We, in the last 24 hours, have expelled Tea Party Express and Mark Williams from the National Tea Party Federation because of the letter that he wrote," Webb said of Williams' blog post that satirized a fictional letter from what he called "Colored People" to President Abraham Lincoln.

NAACP President Ben Jealous met Williams' statement by telling CNN, "Good riddance, Mark Williams." But he praised Tea Party activists like Webb, who is African-American, for standing up and "self-policing" their movement.

"As the movement grows up, you have to act responsibly and they have to keep doing what they just did to Mark Williams and make it clear there is no space for bigots here, period," Jealous said.


Please pay attention Bobert.

Also I did not say using the term "your side" is racist or bigoted. Tia made that assertion.

Certainly to claim one person's use of the term is not bigoted but that another person's use of it is not bigoted, is bigoted.