Who the hell is Mark Williams anyway?

Mark Williams is Mark Williams is an American radio host and author (Books: It's Not Right Versus Left, It's Right Versus Wrong; Exposing the Socialist Agenda and Taking Back America One Tea Party at a Time, 2010). He is based in Sacramento, California. Williams is an occasional guest on Fox News Channel, MSNBC, and CNN and has appeared as a guest host on radio stations nationally and on the Talk Radio Network's Jerry Doyle and Rusty Humphries shows. He is the spokesman for the Tea Party Express (and Vice Chairman of the Tea Party Express' parent political action committee: Our Country Deserves Better PAC

I was just watching Olbermann tonight and he put this up on the screen:

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

http://blog.reidreport.com/2010/07/tea-partier-mark-williams-writes-open-letter-to-lincoln-from-the-coloreds/

Mark Williams wrote this.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/tea-party-express-mark-williams-naacps-use-of-colored-makes-it-racist.php

The defense of this type of racist crap kind of goes like this:

The NAACP contains the words 'Colored People'. So I can say Colored People any time I damn please.

Second, we are to assume that African-Americans back in the mid 19th century were uneducated due to the laws of the South and that the few that could write, wrote in a pigeon type English.

Third, we are to assume that Williams is being satirical, although I aint laughing.

That means we Coloreds would have to compete for jobs like everybody else and that is just not right.

This spokesman for the tea party movement would describe this line as somehow tongue in cheek. But the line is indefensible. I wish I could get Dick Gregory to respond to this pure racist crap.

Fifth, Williams outdoes himself with this line:

It was this type of attitude that would have driven me to the Black Panther Party in the 60's if I had been born Black. And the Panthers are taking all sorts of heat from rush and fox and every other fucking right wing hog right now.

Finally, Williams is dealing with:

anachronism--from the Greek ανά (ana: up, against, back, re-) and χρόνος (chronos: time)--is an error in chronology, especially a chronological misplacing of persons, events, objects, or customs in regard to each other. The item is often an object, but may be a verbal expression, a technology, a philosophical idea, a musical style, a material, a custom, or anything else so closely associated with a particular period in time that it would be incorrect to place it outside its proper domain.

Too big to fail might have been applied as a Confederate aspersion upon the concept of the Union, I suppose, but Williams is using this phrase in another context.

Williams is characterizing the 19th Century Slave as child-like, naïve and supplicant. Here are some clips from a biography of Frederick Douglass I found on the web:

"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck."--from an Address at a Civil Rights meeting, 1883

When he did not prove to suit Thomas's purpose he was sent "to be broken" by Edward Covey, working in his fields for a year, and for the first six months was beaten and whipped severely many times.

"Mr. Covey succeeded in breaking me. I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!"--Ch. 10, ibid

In September of 1838 Frederick arrived in the free state of New York after a tense twenty-four hour journey by train and boat, having finally slipped the bonds of his master;

"A new world had opened upon me. If life is more than breath and the "quick round of blood," I lived more in that one day than in a year of my slave life. It was a time of joyous excitement which words can but tamely describe."

http://www.online-literature.com/frederick_douglass/

TO ALL TEAPARTIERS:

I hereby sentence every one of you to six months of community service in the form of your compelled attendance in a Black History Seminar.