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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 don't cotton to that whole emancipation thing, freedom means having to work for real, and think for ourselves and take consequences along with the rewards, that is just f...

"dear mr. lincoln, we colored people have taken a vote and decideded that we don't 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 this week. >> it sure was. i watched a lot of your good interviews with people on both sides of the...

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. lincoln we colored people have taken a vote and decided we don't cotton to the whole emancipation thing. ...

Others in the tea party say the same thing? we don't condone it. we denounce it. let's 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. we added the brackets. he added the brackets. he said we, the national association of the advance...

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 don't 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 movement of racism in its ranks. >> what i did, if it opened the door toneding the vitrial coming ou...