You’d think they would state in their ultimatum what Mark Williams did wrong, for the sake of casual watchers.
A day after he posted a screed to his personal website calling the NAACP “racist” for using the word “colored” in its name, the Tea Party Express’ Mark Williams has taken the post down and called upon tea partiers and NAACP activists alike “to fight those who seek to divide us by race, no matter the color of the racist.”
I just caught it yesterday. Basically, he wrote a piece that was clearly intended to be satirical, but missed the mark by too wide a margin. It came off as crude and ugly (some would even say racist).
He tried to imitate black vernacular, or "Ebonics", which really wasn't the worst of it. It was that it was too hard to see at a glance that he was trying to show how racist the NAACP is. It just came out all wrong, and did more harm than good.
Personally, I thought he should have come out the next day with some kind of statement to explain himself.
I dunno. It's just one of those unfortunate bits of ugly business.
“You’d think they would state in their ultimatum what Mark Williams did wrong, for the sake of casual watchers.”
I found this:
“Tea Party Express spokesman Mark Williams fired an unexpected response to a challenge from CNN contributor Roland Martin.
Asked to tell racists “you’re not welcome” in the tea party, Williams replied, “Racists have their own movement. It’s called the NAACP.”
The exchange came on Wednesday’s edition of CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.” A day earlier, the NAACP passed a resolution condemning the tea party for tolerating racism.”
at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/14/mark-williams-tea-party-express-naacp-racist_n_646989.html