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Here’s Tea Party Express Chair Amy Kremer on the topic of former chair, racist and “fellow conservative” Mark Williams:

“While Mark Williams may speak on behalf of us in some circumstances and in some situations, and we may agree on some things, this is not one of the things that we agree upon and Mark Williams is speaking on his own behalf and his own behalf only,” she said.

While reading this in the Anchorage Daily News, I was reminded yet again how silly it was for the NAACP to play the race card with the teabaggers. When local media makes Williams’ racism the lede in a story about a teabagger challenger, and when it devotes paragraph after paragraph to his mutterings about “Coloreds”, it just shows how much the NAACP overplayed its victimhood.

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  2. 2.

    Laertes

    Teatards: YHBT. YHL. HAND.

    They got pwned, hard. NAACP took a chance, calling them out for their racism. Had they reacted calmly, NAACP would have looked pretty silly.

    It must have been terribly frustrating for the teabaggers who are merely freaking out because the President is a Democrat that the ones who are freaking out because the President is Black so quickly stepped to the mic to answer and prove the NAACP right.

  3. 3.

    El Cid

    These are the people who despised Barack Obama for being near Bill Ayers and sitting in Jeremiah Wright’s church? That‘s separation of message and messenger?

  4. 4.

    David in NY

    On the other hand, shouldn’t we wish that Miller would beat Murkowski for the nomination? Or not.

  6. 6.

    Joshua Norton

    How convenient. They can pick and chose when their douche-nozzle spokesperson is speaking for them.

    Sorry, ducks. In for a penny, in for a pound. If you agree with him on anything, you agree with him on everything.

  7. 7.

    roshan

    It’s funny that when the wingnuts cry socialism no one is bothered to say that they are over doing it but when actual cases of racist behavior is pointed out, people are quick to tell the accusers to tone it down.

  8. 8.

    Tata

    Victimhood? A plain statement of fact is victimhood?

    It’s disappointing to see mistermix buy the R theme that pointing out racism in the public discourse is ill mannered.

  9. 9.

    Ivan Ivanovich Renko

    @Laertes: Actually, no; the NAACP couldn’t have looked silly.

    How could calmly and politely asking the Tea Party to refudiate(yeah, I said it) the unreconstructed white supremacists documented to have participated in essentally ALL Tea Party events possibly made them look silly?

    No, there may not have been the utter pwnage had the Tea types reacted rationally… but, well, we are talking about the Tea Party, here.

  12. 12.

    Montysano

    The deranged opposition to Obama is shot through with racism. There is simply no other explanation for the dementia caused by a provably centrist politician who is following a center-right agenda. So…. good on the NAACP, and shame on Wiegel for trivializing racism.

  16. 16.

    matoko_chan

    Dude, Weigel, McMegan, Chunky Reese Witherspoon Douthat, an’ all the rest of the WATB bourgie conservatives do exactly the same thing.
    check this.

    Part of the problem with meritocracy is that it homogenizes in the name of diversity: It skims the cream from every race and class and population, puts all of the best and brightest through the same educational conveyor belt, and comes out with a ruling class that’s cosmetically diverse but intellectually conformist, and that tends to huddle together rather than spreading out to enrich the country as a whole. This is Christopher Lasch’s lament in “The Revolt of the Elites” — that meritocracy co-opts people who might otherwise become its critics, sapping local communities of their intellectual vitality and preventing any kind of rival power centers from emerging.

    The system is WAI.
    The democratic meritocracy selects for talent and virtue. OF COURSE an avatar of Jefferson’s natural aristoi could arise in a rural conservative population….but they get drummed out of the regiment.

    Sully:But what’s the alternative?

    The problem is an old one…..how do Jefferson’s noble yeoman farmers (NYFs) get self-representation?
    In theory, the natural aristoi can arise anywhere– look at Obama.
    But in practice the natural aristoi are selected out or driven out of the conservative tribe.
    Douthat has it exactly assbackwards– we don’t need to level meritocratic values like “virtue and talent”, or give conservatives skillups so they can play…..
    virtue and talent need to be selected FOR instead of selected AGAINST in the conservative base.

  17. 17.

    DougJ

    Yes, this is right on the money. The same thought went through my head watching CNN yesterday. It’s turned into a series of tea baggers being asked “when did you stop beating your wife?”

  19. 19.

    mistermix

    @Ivan Ivanovich Renko: Yes. It’s always a risk for a minority group to stick up for itself, but that’s why people pay money to support groups like the NAACP (and the ADL, HRC, etc.)

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    scav

    @Joshua Norton: well, Bush-league round 2 is only acknowledged as one of theirs when bloody convenient to the current sacred and ever-lasting cause (menu changes daily, be sure to ask your server) and president outranks spokesman according to most traditional metrics. ya jus gotta remember that the broad brush only works on others, the ones with actual platforms ‘n’ shit. That’s exactly why one’s gotta avoid that whole “careful policy development” because it leads to the development of things where paint (other than blusher and eyeliner) might adhere to.

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    Zandar

    As I’ve said before, the NAACP should be addressing actual instances of clear racism and abuse of power towards minorities like in the Oscar Grant murder than giving Teabagger assholes free “Why isn’t there a NAAWP?” credibility.

  22. 22.

    catclub

    Al Haig, after Reagan was shot, usurping authority, right?

    I sure wish the NAACP had used sarcasm instead of sincerity.

    “We think that the Teaparty should never denounce any racists in their midst. Look at how successful George Wallace was, and he never backed down!”

  23. 23.

    David in NY

    “Why isn’t there a NAAWP?”

    Because its real name is the Republican Party, Tea Party division.

    Simple answers to simple questions.

  26. 26.

    Sentient Puddle

    @Laertes:

    They got pwned, hard. NAACP took a chance, calling them out for their racism. Had they reacted calmly, NAACP would have looked pretty silly.

    If the risk for a given strategy is that the Tea Party will react calmly to a provocation, then you’ve struck gold. The only real question left is how to harness this energy into building a perpetual motion machine.

  27. 27.

    Paul L.

    Amazing the progressives who decried “guilt by association” with Obama/Rev. Wright embrace it with Mark Williams/Tea Parties.

  28. 28.

    Jackmormon

    I saw the most recent iteration of this dust-up on CNN while on line at the bank—in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, where I was the *only* white person present. So, so embarrassing.

  30. 30.

    El Cid

    @Paul L.: Mark Williams was the head of that Tea Party group. The analogy would have been that Reverend Wright or Bill Ayers was the candidate. Idiot.

  31. 31.

    gwangung

    @cleek: That’s the one where the USDA person said she made a mistake 26 years ago and wouldn’t do the same thing again? Where the conservative pushback leads to never admitting a mistake or your own racism–i.e., the very things Williams is guilty of?

  32. 32.

    David in NY

    @Paul L.:

    They should start a new section on the SAT’s entitled False Equivalences.

    I only hope that the Tea Party gets the same beating up about this that Obama got about Jeremiah Wright. But you thought that was all unfair at the time, right?

  33. 33.

    El Cid

    And now there’s even more Obama administration attacks on good, honest, hardworking white people for their ACORN and NAACP conspirators.

    A former New Orleans resident was charged Thursday with federal hate crimes for his alleged role in a racially motivated shooting of three black men in the days after Hurricane Katrina.
    __
    Roland J. Bourgeois Jr., 47, is accused of plotting to defend his Algiers Point neighborhood “from outsiders” including African-Americans, constructing barricades on public streets and using racial epithets to describe black people, according to the five-count indictment.
    __
    At one point, Bourgeois allegedly said, “Anything coming up this street darker than a paper bag is getting shot.”
    __
    The indictment charges Bourgeois with doing just that when three black males walked through the neighborhood toward a makeshift Coast Guard evacuation center on Sept. 1. Bourgeois fired a shotgun at the trio, felling Donnell Herrington and wounding Herrington’s two companions near the corner of Pelican Avenue and Vallette Street, according to the indictment.
    __
    Later, Bourgeois plucked Herrington’s bloodied baseball cap from the ground and proudly displayed it to others, boasting that he “got one” and had shot a “looter, ” according to a witness.
    __
    Bourgeois, who denied any knowledge of the incident to federal agents, is also accused of coercing an eyewitness to the shooting to lie to investigators.

    So why isn’t the Bush Jr. Obama administration prosecuting the New Black Panther Party for looking intimidating at a polling place without anyone apparently available to testify that they were intimidated?

    That is what’s important, not these minor incidents of white crackers going hunting for African Americans fleeing a flood and levee collapse because it seems fun.

  34. 34.

    Mnemosyne

    @gwangung:

    That’s the one. Because in Conservativeland, making a mistake 26 years ago that you use as a teaching tool to try and prevent other people from making the same mistake is exactly the same as making a mistake yesterday that you try to pretend wasn’t a mistake at all. That’s why Robert Byrd and David Duke were exactly the same. QED.

  35. 35.

    El Cid

    @Mnemosyne: They hated Robert Byrd far more than they hated David Duke, because Byrd apologized and denounced his prior racism. That’s just going too far. Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms never did that.

  36. 36.

    gnomedad

    While Mark Williams may speak on behalf of us in some circumstances and in some situations, and we may agree on some things, this is not one of the things that we agree upon

    See, we’re a diverse group! Some of us are racists, and some aren’t.

  37. 37.

    El Cid

    @gnomedad: Actually, it’s more like “We will disagree with him when he says racist stuff but we’re good with him when he doesn’t.”

  39. 39.

    jomo

    That blog post crossed a line – it was so blatantly racist that it really couldn’t be tossed off as satire. It did everything the NAACP could have wanted. It made their charges plausible, it took the spotlight off them and firmly on the Tea Party, and it forced people to take sides. As race is one of the galvanizing issues of the Tea Party it may change the dynamic. And if Mark Williams pushes himself back onto the front page instead of disappearing like he should, it could really mess things up for them.

  40. 40.

    Ash Can

    @El Cid:

    “We will disagree with him when he says racist stuff something he gets called out for and attracts unwanted attention, but we’re good with him when he doesn’t.”

    Get called out, that is.

  41. 41.

    dj spellchecka

    don’t know if the naacp intended for this to play out the way it did…but this sure reminds me of pure muhammad ali “rope-a-dope.”

    they couldn’t have dreamed of a better outcome…the federation boots the racist, the racist’s buddies cry foul….cat fight, beotches!

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