The topic of racism and bigotry in the Tea Party can’t be debated if the co-chair and spokesperson Mike Williams calls political opponents, “faggots” on his blog or calls the president a racist in his email.
He has not spoken against the well known racist signs or the posters of our president with a Hitler meme. Mike Williams is at the core of the Tea Party Express.
Now, this is what bigots do. From his own blog:
“I owe a massive apology to Jimmy Carter for calling Dubya the “Republican Jimmy Carter.” Truth is, not even that creepy little faggot ever put us in a position where the Canadian “dollar” was actually worth a real dollar… or where the Canadian Air Force (three guys and a paper kite) would be our first line of air defense.”
Glenn Beck said our “president has a deep seated hatred for white people“. I guess Mark Williams has the same thoughts because of this little gem. I hope his sponsors equal in quantity to Mr Beck’s.
He claims he’ll call out racism anytime without regard to who they are. We’re calling you out Mr Williams. If you will call out racism, then shut your big mouth, take down the signs, stop calling people “faggots” and quit mimicking a well known racist, Glenn Beck.
“TPMMuckraker’s Zachary Roth reported that Tea Party Express spokesman Mark Williams, a frequent guest on cable news, “derided Barack Obama as ‘our half white, racist president’ in an email to colleagues.” Williams “sent an email in September — obtained by TPMmuckraker — to other leaders of the group, in which he appeared to be responding to charges of racism against himself.” From Williams’ email:
CNN went over more than seven thousand articles on my site; likely they also listened to the shows archived there too. No doubt they did a Lexis Nexis on me and found thirty years of work by and about me. The best that they could do as a result was string together three quotes, out of context, and throw in a false allegation of me calling Obama a “Nazi”.
I was in the streets marching for civil rights while asshole southern sheriffs were swinging nail studded baseball bats at black’s heads, and stood between black kids and even more fucked up northern assholes were throwing rocks and gas bombs at school buses in my hometown during forced busing for deseg.
Two things you can always count on: I will defend my record on race to no one (sic), under any circumstances and, I will call out any racist, any time without regard to who they are … and that includes our half white, racist president.”
