The Tea Party Express and its leader Mark Williams were expelled from the National Tea Party Federation. Williams, the chairman of the Tea Party Express, wrote a racist satire on the group's website last week in response to an NAACP resolution calling out the Tea Party to denounce the racists in its movement. The Tea Party denied that racists were part of its membership when the NAACP voted at its convention last week on the Tea Party resolution. After the racist satire by Williams came to light within the media, the Tea Party expelled him in an apparent move to keep the party from being labeled racist.

Tea Party Express leader fans racist flames

By expelling the Tea Party Express, founded by Williams, the Tea Party is now without one of its most powerful factions. The New York Daily News reports the Tea Party Express has raised $ 2.3 million this year and helped elect Republican Scott Brown to the late Ted Kennedy's senate seat in Massachusetts. Williams stepped down as chairman last month to concentrate on leading a right wing campaign against a proposed Lower Manhattan mosque, known as the ground zero mosque, which Williams called a monument to the 9/11 attackers to "worship the terrorists' monkey-god". Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, who supports the project was called a "Jewish Uncle Tom who would have turned rat on Anne Frank" by Williams for backing the project .

Muslims worship "monkey god," says Tea Party Express


 When the NAACP passed their resolution demanding that the Tea Party take steps to separate racism from its movement, Williams was calling Muhammad a monkey god and also the Tea Party was playing victim. Right wing pundits and Tea Party officials said their entire movement was being labeled racist by the NAACP. Their comeback was that the NAACP were the racists. But a letter Williams wrote and posted on teapartyexpress.org made the NAACP Tea Party resolution's claims absolutely clear.

Tea Party Express jokes about slavery

By writing a satirical letter to Abraham Lincoln from NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous, Williams got his Tea Party Express expelled from the Tea Party movement . This sample from the letter was posted by Fox News:


"Perhaps the most racist point of all within 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?" he wrote. "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."

Will NAACP resolution make Tea Party responsible for its message?

The Tea Party movement may benefit within the long run from the Tea Party Express dismissal. The NAACP resolution, the Huffington Post reports, may benefit the Tea Party within the long run because now the movement may have to be responsible for controlling its behavior. After the NAACP resolution, the Tea Party can't use its grass roots, free-form nature as an excuse to condone such behavior.

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