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These are his words. "we colored have taken a vote and decided we dont cotton that whole emancipation thing. freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves and take consequences along with rewards. thats far too much to ask of us colored people." williams call that had satire. people of the national tea party called it trouble. the sentiment continued today. the tea party nation, the group that hosted the big party convention down in nashville has just put out a statement saying they...

A peeding express train careened into a stationary train. television images from the train shows rescuers climbing through the debris searching for res r survivors. i am marianne rafferty. now back to "geraldo at large." >> the irony is an agency accusing the tea party of wanting to push america to the past free civil rights era. thats exactly where the naacp is stuck in the past. >> the tea party mark williams did the dopey. write ago pretended letter to president lincoln. >> we coloreds have t...

Abraham lincoln. heres part of what he wrote. he said we colored people have taken a vote and decided that we dont cotton to the 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. williams remained why he wrote the ert. >> what i did was successful. im sorry i had to go to the lengths to slap sense into a lot of people who are so afraid...

Figureheads, mark williams. in his blog, williams pretends to be naacp president, benjamin jealous. writing to abraham lincoln. it reads in part, dear mr. lincoln, we colored people have taken a vote and decided that we dont cotton to that whole emancipation thing. freedom mean 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. end quote. those words from mark williams. so that didnt sit too well with the national te...

But first, heres what prompted williams to write his letter, speaking this week at the naacp convention in kansas city. >> spell the bigots and racists in your ranks or take full responsibility for all of their actions. we will no longer allow you to hide like cowards. behind signs that say lynch our president or anyone else. >> the civil rights group passed a resolution calling on the tea party movement to condemn racism in its ranks. that didnt sit well with tea party express spokesman mark wi...

Mark williams, tea party express, you know, they do some fund-raisers, or try to gin up support for the tea party, has been kicked out by the national tea party federation. okay? you are following me? and, this is why: mark williams posted a blog, i want to read you a little bit of it, a fictional letter from the quote-unquote colored people to mr. abraham lincoln. here it is: we coloreds have taken a vote and decided that we dont cotton to that whole emancipation thing, freedom means having to ...

"dear mr. lincoln, we colored people have taken a vote and decideded that we dont cotton to the whole emancipation thing. freedom means to having to work for real, think for ourselves." ben jealous fired back. "we have simply called on the leaders toe repudiate racist elements in their ranks. if mark williams does so i would be happy to sit down and talk with him." our deputy political director joins me live. this got ugly quickly and continued with this back and forth. this was an ugly episode ...

Real significance of this is for many years to come. >> so we want to get into all of this with two gentlemen this morning. one columbia university professor mark lamont hill, he joins us this morning. also the co-founder of diversity incorporated. gentlemen, i want your reaction to that letter to abe lincoln written by tea party spokesman mark williams who was pretending to be ben jealous. he called this a satirical letter pretending to be ben jealous writing to abraham lincoln. "dear mr. linco...

Others in the tea party say the same thing? we dont condone it. we denounce it. lets move on. the fact that they want the confrontation with the naacp would seem to send the wrong signals about what they really want to project as their issues. >> okay. you mentioned mark williams because this blog post in response to naacp is from mark williams, a spokesman for the tea party express. he assumes in it a voice of naacp as a mock letter addressed to president lincoln. this is what he says in parts....

Mocking the naacp. described as a satirical blog post where he pretends to be the naacp president ben jealous writing to abraham lincoln. it reads in part, "dear from lincoln, we colored people have taken a vote and decided we dont cotton to that old emancipation thing. freedom means having to work for real. think for ourselves, take consequences along with the rewards. this is just far too much to ask of us." that post is written in reaction to the recent resolution that accused the tea party m...