Mark Williams addresses a crowd at a rally for tea party activists. Tea Party Federation boots Williams

The National Tea Party Federation has expelled activist Mark Williams over his attacks on the NAACP.

A spokesman for the federation, which is seeking to become a national umbrella organization, said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that Williams's racially tinged attacks on the NAACP’s recent resolution condemning some of the tea party’s tactics as “racist” went too far.


The federation also expelled the Williams-tied Tea Party Express, which has organized some of the movement's biggest events, including rallies with former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin.

“We, in the last 24 hours, have expelled Tea Party Express and Mark Williams from the National Tea Party Federation because of the letter that he wrote,” said federation spokesman David Webb, who called the letter “clearly offensive.”

Williams stoked controversy last week by posting a “letter” from NAACP leader Ben Jealous to President Abraham Lincoln.

“We Colored People have taken a vote and decided that we don't cotton to that whole emancipation thing. Freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves, and take consequences along with the rewards,” reads the letter, which has since been taken down. “That is just far too much to ask of us Colored People and we demand that it stop!”

Williams, a conservative talk show radio host, said last week that the letter was intended to be read as “satire.”

Jealous, in a statement responding to Williams's expulsion, said, “Good riddance, Mark Williams.”