[wastedyears]

They’re breaking it down before it has a chance to show off its efforts.

[pennboricua]

What right do they have to expel anyone from a non paying, non membership required, loosely knit group of patriots?

[Regulator]

Bad, bad, idea.

The race hustlers got a score. Now they know they can do these wimps.

The intimidation has just begun. Next up, Sharpton and company.

Tea Party white guy losers soon to go down.

Never, ever, ever give in.

[Qbert]

There’s no need for what Mark Williams did, IMHO- it only adds to the perception that the Libs already have of Tea Party members as group.

Let the leftists by their words and deeds expose themselves for the true racialists that they are.

[noblejones]

Hey, CNN - where are those “Coffee Party” updates you so breathlessly promised?

[Paperdoll]

I would want first hand info on what he is being expelled about before rendering an opinion. But off hand I say what right does the Tea Party Federation have to expel anyone? Does the Republican party have the right to expel a member for any reason?

[Tex-Con-Man]

"Dear Mr. Lincoln," began the fictional letter posted by Williams. "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!"

This idiot just handed the NAACP a huge PR victory.

Way to go dumbass.

[PMAS]

With that article, satire or not, he fell right into the NAACP and left’s trap.
All Tea Party leaders should just keep it simple and say there is no racism in the Tea Party and will continue to keep it that way. Saying this would not be pandering, just stating the facts.

[Freddd]

‘The National Tea Party Federation, an organization that represents the Tea Party political movement’

Couldn’t read any further.

[ILS21R]

It’s a strategic move and the Tea Party just took the high ground from the NAACP. It’s simply brilliant.

[faucetman]

I have some colored greens in my pantry, should I throw them out?

[Oldpuppymax]

That’s what he gets for trying to state non-PC FACTS!!! So now the Tea Party movement is able to “expel” members because they are not sufficiently politically correct??!!

[markman46]

OK so just who is this National Tea Party Federation?? I know about Tea Party Express

[Drango]

National Tea Party Federation

Never heard of them. I pledge them no fidelity and they don't speak for me.

[The_Reader_David]

This is sad and funny at the same time. It brings to mind the scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian that lampoons divisions among the Trotskyite left.

REG:
Listen. If you really wanted to join the P.F.J. N.T.P.F, you'd have to really hate the Romans. tax-and-spend Obama liberals

BRIAN:
I do!

REG:
Oh, yeah? How much?

BRIAN:
A lot!

REG:
Right. You're in. Listen. The only people we hate more than the Romans Obama are the f***ing Judean People's Front. Tea Party Express.

P.J.F. N.T.P.F:
Yeah...

JUDITH:
Splitters.

P.J.F. N.T.P.F:
Splitters...

FRANCIS:
And the Judean Popular People's Front. [substitute the next Tea Party group to be disowned]

C'mon folks, let's keep this together until we're rid of Obama, or have veto-proof majorities in both houses of Congress.

[B-Chan]

The word “racism” is white man’s Kryptonite. No group, however just their cause, can stand against it. The utterance of the word “racism” will turn even the strongest opponent into a cringing lackey.

Even here on FR. Look at the posting guidelines. Every post on FR has to pass NAACP muster. Just ask certain uncomfortable questions or post certain uncomfortable facts and watch the fun as your fellow Freepers pile on and the Banhammer comes down. It doesn’t matter if you’re a racist or not. FR can survive without me or you, but it can’t survive being called “racist” on TV.

Racism used to be defined as “bigotry or hatred based upon race”. In 2010, racism is “anything a given non-white person doesn’t like”.

[FrankR]

I would like to err on the side of caution here with some reservations about this "National Tea Party Federation" group.

To be honest, I don't know much about the TEA Party movement becoming a National "Federation". At first glance it doesn't appear to be in the spirit of the TEA party movement, as defined by Sarah Palin in their convention back in February, where she said:

And in that spirit, I caution against allowing this movement to be defined by any one leader or politician. The Tea Party movement is not a top-down operation. It’s a ground-up call to action that is forcing both parties to change the way that they're doing business, and that’s beautiful. This is about the people. This is about the people, and it’s bigger than any king or queen of a Tea Party. And it’s a lot bigger than any charismatic guy with a teleprompter.

The soul of this movement is the people -- everyday Americans who grow our food and run our small businesses, teach our kids, and fight our wars. They’re folks in small towns and cities across this great nation who saw what was happening -- and they saw and were concerned, and they got involved. Like you, they go to town hall meetings, and they write op-eds. They run for local office. You all have the courage to stand up and speak out. You have a vision for the future, one that values conservative principles and common sense solutions. And if that sounds like you, then you probably too are feeling a bit discouraged by what you see in Washington D.C.

Around that time several "fake" TEA parties were cropping up wanting donations and shilling for the democrat party. Some guy in Florida actually started a Tea PARTY, and official political party, which it is not...and he was a dem, or at least a RINO.

Someone is going to have to do a better selling job on me for this "Federation" thing...it sounds too groupy, and I don't like community organized "groups".

But like any organization I've ever been in, even back to the days of the Jaycees, it started with real noble purposes, aqnd devolves into a fight for power.

[Jim Scott]

I believe that Mark Williams was patently foolish to post that ‘letter to President Lincoln’ that intentionally demeaned ‘colored’ people - but it should have been ignored. Making a big show about ‘expelling’ Williams, as other posters have stated, just gives the ‘racist’ smear a handle and encourages the enemies of the Tea party to keep using it. At this juncture name-calling is all the left can do, so they do it, incessantly, hoping the smear will stick enough to render the Tea Party ineffective because the majority population buy the ‘racist’ label the left has tried to smear it with. This incident should be ignored because it was an aberration. Mark Williams’ parody of Black people is not who the Tea Party folks really are. Let’s stop being put on the defensive.

[pissant]

Who do these self appointed morons think they are?

[BallyBill]

Somebody actually claims that they represent a movement? Then it ain't a movement, it is a club. Groucho Marx had it right about clubs....