19th July 2010

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Bigoted [Ex-] Tea Party Leader Mark Williams: ‘Tea Party Racism Impossible”

Even though Mark Williams has since been kicked out of the Tea Party over the inflammatory blog post he wrote, you’ll be hearing that argument a lot. But ThinkProgress reminds us why its wrong:

“Of course, as ThinkProgress has documented, Williams needs to look no farther than himself to know that it is not “impossible” for the tea party movement to contain racist elements. Moreover, William’s pathetic attempt to dismiss every single example of tea party racism as the work of Crash the Party is complete nonsense. If he took his own advice and googled Crash the Tea Party, he would see that the group didn’t even exist until April of this year — a year after racist and bigoted signs began appearing at tea party rallies. Beyond this, the counter-protesters never really materialized, and basic common sense should tell Williams that the group couldn’t possibly be responsible for every single racist sign.”—Think Progress

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