Tea party leader: Slaves didn't want to be emancipated

[Demosthenes11]

Maybe by now you have heard of Mark Williams, a Sacramento area Tea party sock puppet. Amidst all the accusations of the tea party being racist in the last year, what better to dispel that myth than to make a blog post as a slave writing to President Lincoln.

Dear Mr. Lincoln
We Coloreds have taken a vote and decided that we don’t cotton to that whole emancipation thing. Freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves, and take consequences along with the rewards. That is just far too much to ask of us Colored People and we demand that it stop!

In fact we held a big meeting and took a vote in Kansas City this week. We voted to condemn a political revival of that old abolitionist spirit called the ‘tea party movement’.
The tea party position to “end the bailouts” for example is just silly. Bailouts are just big money welfare and isn’t that what we want all Coloreds to strive for? What kind of racist would want to end big money welfare? What they need to do is start handing the bail outs directly to us coloreds! Of course, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is the only responsible party that should be granted the right to disperse the funds.
And the ridiculous idea of “reduce[ing] the size and intrusiveness of government.” What kind of massa would ever not want to control my life? As Coloreds we must have somebody care for us otherwise we would be on our own, have to think for ourselves and make decisions!

The racist tea parties also demand that the government “stop the out of control spending.” Again, they directly target coloreds. That means we Coloreds would have to compete for jobs like everybody else and that is just not right.

Perhaps the most racist point of all in the tea parties is their demand that government “stop raising our taxes.” That is outrageous! How will we coloreds ever get a wide screen TV in every room if non-coloreds get to keep what they earn? Totally racist! The tea party expects coloreds to be productive members of society?

Mr. Lincoln, you were the greatest racist ever. We had a great gig. Three squares, room and board, all our decisions made by the massa in the house. Please repeal the 13th and 14th Amendments and let us get back to where we belong.

Sincerely
Precious Ben Jealous, Tom’s Nephew NAACP Head Colored Person

Due to the obvious outrage over this, Williams was just removed from the tea party by other leaders - waiting until there was enough pressure from outside the organization first.

I invite anyone to read that and try to spin it like Mr. Williams is not a racist. Please. Someone try. I'm looking at you Egon

[Stumblingdrunk]

its satire, its ok if its satire

[Tristam]

His excuses are even more hilarious, he's claiming that the letter is racist solely due to use of the word "coloreds", thus he's trying to spin it to claim that the NAACP is a racist organization due to the fact that "colored" is part of their name.

Dude is a profoundly stupid hatemonger.

[archibaldcrane]

I just like that he was saying it was satire to "start a conversation".

It's like, a conversation about what motherfucker? The conversation about how black people are lazy shiftless shufflealongs? What conversation did you exactly want to have?

[Egon]

States rights ect ect


But to be serious, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010...-white-farmer/

And bad eggs, ect ect

[Alleya]

States rights ect ect


But to be serious, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010...-white-farmer/

And bad eggs, ect ect

lol I love this. Let me get it straight: one person's racism is excused by virtue of the existence of other racists?

[Vajra]

You all are 2 weeks late on this news man; Mark Williams(w/ Tea Party Express) = Booted out of Tea Party Federation.

Shirley Sharrod = no problem found, her speech was taken out of context and she'll probably get rehired with a promotion, end of story .

Do you guys not watch the news lol? This crap overshadowed Financial Reform's passage and signature and also overshadowed Wall Street's pretty much neutral week. Just like when the Oil Spill overshadowed Health Insurance Reform's signature. About Andrew Breibart and his gheyness; atleast now no one will take this fat potato head seriously anymore (I hope...).

[Demosthenes11]

States rights ect ect


But to be serious, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010...-white-farmer/

And bad eggs, ect ect

lol I assume you haven't seen, well, the full video?

[Tristam]

Oh come on Egon, even fox news has corrected that story

From lolfoxnews

"What the clip did not show was the rest of the story, in which Sherrod said she eventually grew close to the white farmer and helped him and his wife save their farm. She explained that the story, set 24 years ago, was meant to show how she learned to look beyond the issue of race. "

[Cadsuane]

What the fuck does "ect" mean?

[Kuya]

States rights ect ect


But to be serious, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010...-white-farmer/

And bad eggs, ect ect

lol

[Correction]

lol@egon

Holy shit man it wasn't even 8 hours gone by when that story 'broke' that it was proven to be an out-of-context cry for attention from Breitbart, again. On the other hand he did steal the news cycle from the signing of the financial regulatory bill into law.

[Mizango]

What the fuck does "ect" mean?

lol I was wondering the same thing. I knew Egon couldnt stay away for too long

[Moridam]

What the fuck does "ect" mean?

electroconvulsive therapy

i'm not sure what it has to do with any of the points egon was attempting to make, but he seems to be real fired up over ECT.

[BerenTebogo]

It's a cry for help. He's subconsciously telling us what he needs. 'ect! ECT!'

[Ryany]

lol I love this. Let me get it straight: one person's racism is excused by virtue of the existence of other racists?

I'm not saying I agree with it, but that card does seem to get played a lot.

[Rhinox]

wat

[Rhyis.]

Monkeys don't have rights. GTFO with that shit.

[Egon]

It's so funny how much I am hated on this forum. At least I keep ya'll entertained.

[Mizango]

It's so funny how much I am hated on this forum. At least I keep ya'll entertained.

Hated? Hardly. You're more like a poor man's Vajra.