Mark Williams
UPI.comWASHINGTON, July 18 (UPI) -- The U.S. Tea Party coalition has expelled the Tea Party Express over Mark Williams' satirical letter from "Colored People" to Abraham Lincoln, a spokesman says.
"We have expelled Tea Party Express and Mark Williams from the National Tea Party Federation because of the letter that he wrote," National Tea Party spokesman David Webb said Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation."
In the letter he posted on his blog, Williams, a conservative radio talk show host, wrote in what he called the voice of slaves: "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.
"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!"
The racist rantings appeared as the national Tea Party denied any racism beyond fringe elements within the organization in response to an NAACP resolution calling on Tea Party leaders to "repudiate those in their ranks who use racist language in their signs and speeches."
Williams had been a Tea Party star, attracting to his rallies among other national figures Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 candidate for vice president who some see as a White House contender in 2012.
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