I came across something about Mark Williams who is one of the organizers of the Tea Party Movement. This isn’t something I read about, I saw an article and watched the video where he confirmed he had traveled across the country for the march on September 12 on Washington. I saw in the video where he confirmed comments attributed to him and continued to make outlandish statements.

I’m giving a rather length set up because I want to make sure all the bases are covered. This morning I was watching a morning talk show where they talked about race in America. It’s always tricky and you have people on both sides who don’t want to talk about it. I understand people wanting to move forward on race issues. We want to believe we are in a new age because we have a black President, but things haven’t changed. We haven’t entered an alternate reality and racism is gone from the minds of people. This isn’t the Lathe of Heaven.

I did a video showing the crazy signs that have been held at rallies all over this summer. Pundits have tried to insist that the ‘possible’ racist vibe being sent out is just a small amount of what’s going on and isn’t indicative of the movement. Well, you have Mark Williams, one of the organizers of the movement, who referred to the President of the United States as “an Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug, and a racist in chief.” This is the person who a supposed leader of the movement, according to his words. When he was on CNN, he not only confirmed the statement but said the President continued to act that way.

The look of the host and the two guests was shock. This was not the first time Williams has made questionable statements. While he didn’t say it outright, he made allusions during hurricane Katrina that those people, and by those people we assume black people, should have made better plans for getting out since it was known about the strength of the hurricane. It must be said he did make a prophetic statement calling Kanye West a jerk, but at the time West was talking about the policy of the Bush Administration, not stealing the mike from a country music singer so the jury is still out on if he was right at the time.

The point is people don’t want to talk about racism because when you talk about it, people get naturally defensive rather than listening. Watching some of the news shows today talk about race people tiptoed and picked words carefully. We can try to talk all we want around the edges, try to act like racism is something on the fringe, but we have something bigger than we would like to believe. The more we ignore it, the more we refuse to face it head on, the more we will contend with the fear and foment under the surface. At some point that septic tank is going to crack and is going to be a steaming mess on the country.

 

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Mark Williams: Closeted Racist We Continue to Ignore - September 20, 2009
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