Mark Williams ‘explains’, defends ‘Colored people’ post
The media has so far been silent about Tea Party Express chieftan Mark Williams’ crass “letter from colored people to President Lincoln,” in which he implies that African-Americans preferred to be slaves because it means they didn’t have to “think for themselves” and that blacks don’t want to work. Well, now Williams has responded to the dust-up … if by “dust-up” you mean a few of his commenters who didn’t appreciate his humor.
Read the original Reid Report post here, including the original, un-revised Mark Williams post.
So how does Williams respond to the handful of people who say they “get his point” but don’t think it will go over well in mainstream America?
Mark Williams says:
Where in that article do you see me addressing American Blacks, or any black people for that matter?
I am mocking those people who call themselves “Colored People” and who are now fighting to be kept as government owned pets, whilst hurling charges of racism at those who embrace freedom and civil rights.
It is in your head that the term “Colored People” means “Black”.
Oh, I get it. “Colored people” aren’t black … ohhhhh….
And here’s a second exchange between Williams and a tea party supporter, who agrees with his views, but is uncomfortable with his verbiage:
Christopher Renner says:
Mark, you used the word “massa” twice and mentioned a wide-screen TV. Tell me that’s not easily mistaken as alluding to blacks in general.
Mark Williams says:
“massa” owned slaves. The group that calls itself “Colored People” want government to be the new massa.
Try thinking for yourself instead of getting all hung up on whatever baggage filled with guilt you’re carrying around. The entire point of my book “One Tea Party at a Time” is that you are crippled – mentally and emotionally by political correctness and thus powerless to defend yourself. You are at the mercy of whatever you fear somebody else may think of you…
…unless you drop the PC garbage and look at the issues. The reasons the NAACP did what it did are several: Mr. Jealous trying to save his own political ass in an organization that is lukewarm about him; the group is a dusty throwback fighting to be relevant again; they are cashing in on the tea party movement by hitching a ride on the Tea Party Express; and they want to continue enslaving American Blacks with the yolk of the past and strike fear into your heart.
Riiiight …
Williams also felt the need to add an “introduction” to his original post, but when you have to explain “satire…”
Astonishing.
In every one of the dozens of interviews that I have done regarding the anti-Tea Party resolution passed by the NAACP I have brought up the absurdity of a group that calls blacks “Colored People” hurling charges of racism. Whats more, each interviewer has defended that phrase and expressed surprise that I would consider that phrase to be racist!
Apparently Colored People are an entirely new race of people and one to which the title applies. Here NAACP President Precious Ben Jealous explains to President Abraham Lincoln the reasons for the resolution in this newly discovered letter :
Uh-huh. That explains a lot…
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He’s suggesting we’re just too stupid to understand. And yet he seems to be on the same page as Michelle Bachmann, which would confirm that he’s the stupid one.
I can just look at Mark Williams and instantly access that he is not the brightest bulb in the pack. The tea-party movement seems to attract clueless people. They may figure, it’s their ‘best shot at 15 minutes of fame’. Well, I guess, Mark Williams, Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann and the rest, are most likely the ‘smartest’ people in this movement.
President G. W. Bush was rated recently to be in the bottom 5 overall for all Presidents in the past (Ranked 39 of 44) and he also has the distinction of being the 2nd dumbest (Ranked 43 of 44). It’s terrifying to say, however, President G. W. Bush seems like a ‘jeanyos’ compared to these folks. The news media needs to ignore these people and look for ‘real’ news.
How sad that in the year 2010 there are people and their followers that hold on to this sort ignorance with pride. The least that I would expect in this new millennium is newly thought-out insults vs. 400 year old ignorant rants. The most that I can say in direct reply to this sort of low-ball thinking is, “BLAH, BLAH, BLAH….
I just got it, he is against the actual name of the NAACP..that’s were you find the term Colored people. I guess he is too young and stupid to realize when the group was founded that was the term that was used. Thats actually as stupid as Glenn Beck wondering why the tapes of the Civil Rights filibuster in the Senate from the 60′s isn’t available…they didn’t start taping for another 20 years…clueless folks these are.
Fing crazy cracker. ridiculous.
mmm, well, let’s see here. the man make a satire in the jonathan swift sense and you guys pretend he is being serious.
mmm, yeah, either you guys are stupid or liars. take your pick.
Seriously, this is what you are reduced to? But no, please keep on calling us tea partiers racists. all you will do is infuriate off everyone who has real misgivings about obama and alienate them further.
Until and unless you can deal with the real, serious and substantive criticisms of the obama administration, you have no chance of holding onto the house, and might even lose the senate. Crying “racist” is the intellectual equivalent of shouting, “look! a squirrel!”
I thnk we can see who is stupid, Aaron.
If defending the guy satisfies you, have fun.
Aaron here is defending Mr. Williams not because the gentleman in question is innocent, but because he’s a Tea Partier. It’s cute.
Mark Williams writes about Eugenics. He writes about superior species and about ‘monkey people.’ He incites hatred because he finds it convenient, and now Aaron is defending him because it’s the intellectual equivalent of “look! a squirrel!”
Sometimes if it looks like a squirrel, it’s actually a squirrel.
Mark Williams is a racist, and if that sounds like something that shouldn’t exist in today’s more modern and sophisticated world, then you’re right.
So why are you associating with him? Why are you taking marching orders from him?
Mr. James
> not because the gentleman in question is innocent, but because he’s a Tea Partier.
Not at all. I am defending him because this is a stupid attack.
> Mark Williams writes about Eugenics.
Feel free to provide a citation. For all I know you might prove him a racist or an advocate of eugenics. But this satire is not even EVIDENCE of racism. Its nothing.
Oh, and don’t provide a citation to mediamutters or thinkprogress. They are established liars.
> So why are you associating with him? Why are you taking marching orders from him?
Dude, I never even heard of the guy until these attacks popped up on memeorandum, specifically this site. And yeah, ever since I stood that day at the capital and protested the takeover of 1/6 of our economy by our idiot government and came home to find people lying through their teeth about what happened that day, I take particular notice when people attack the tea party.
The spitting and racial epithets didn’t happen. Don’t take my word for it. Take the fact the congressman had an ally keep a camera on him the whole time. if they caught anything bad on that tape, you can bet they would have shouted it from the mountaintop. So they went out there hoping to have someone do something wrong. And when nothing happened, instead of reexamining their attitudes, they just made sh-t up. The left has been in an effort to smear these legitimate, issue based, protests of the president’s very liberal agenda as somehow racist, and this site is just the latest participant in this witch hunt.
Confront the issues. This whole “is the tea party is racist” argument is a fallacy anyway; it’s a giant ad hominem argument.
Aaron says:
“Oh, and don’t provide a citation to mediamutters or thinkprogress. They are established liars.”
What you’ve said is a lie and proof of your total bias.
[...] people to President Lincoln,” it has become a national firestorm, prompting Williams to first edit, and then take down his post. Well now, the tea party movement has taken Williams down, [...]
Aaron,
I have no problem with the Tea Party movement or any other person or group who wishes to get involved and talk about what is best for our country. However, I do take issue with any person, left or right, that defaces our President even when it was done to George W. Bush. It is our President and we can take issue with their policies but we should get back to being more respectful of not only our Presidents but our country as a whole. Just in my 38 years I have seen a huge decline in this respect and a lot of it comes from all these Senators and Congressmen who are getting themselves on national TV saying stupid things that really they should not be talking about. Let them get back to representing their states and stop pretending to be more important then they are. We also need to be more respectful on one another no matter race, sex or orientation because to each other we should see one another as fellow Americans first and foremost.
Williams’ is right, the NAACP is a racist organization. They are pushing for the advancement of one race or group of races over the other.