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(CNN) – The war of words between the NAACP and the Tea Party movement has reached a new level, with the spokesman for a ...

(CNN) – The war of words between the NAACP and the Tea Party movement has reached a new level, with the spokesman for a national Tea Party organization penning a controversial blog post and a representative of the NAACP calling the post a feeble attempt at satire and offensive. In an effort to mock to the NAACPs recent criticism of the Tea Party movement, Mark Williams, a conservative radio talk show host and spokesman for the Tea Party Express, published a post on his blog that is a mock letter from NAACP president Benjamin Jealous to former President Lincoln. Dear Mr. Lincoln, the blog post reads, We [National Association for the Advancement of] Colored People have taken a vote and decided that we dont cotton to that 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 [National Association for the Advancement of] Colored People and we demand that it stop! The mock letter continues by taking on several core beliefs and positions of the Tea Party movement including the conservative movements desire to end bailouts of big business, to reduce the size and scope of government, to reduce government spending and to cut taxes. The racist tea parties also demand that the government stop the out of control spending, the mock letter says. Again, they directly target [National Association for the Advancement of] Colored People. That means we [National Association for the Advancement of] Colored People would have to compete for jobs like everybody else and that is just not right. Perhaps the most racist point of all in the tea parties is their demand that government stop raising our taxes That is outrageous! Totally racist! The tea party expects [National Association for the Advancement of] Colored People to be productive members of society, especially when our mission is to convince them that progress is impossible for them based on the color of their skin? The mock letter ends by telling Lincoln he was the greatest racist ever. We had a great gig. … Please repeal the 13th and 14th Amendments and let us get back to where we say that belong. Appearing on CNNs American Morning on Friday, a representative of the NAACP slammed Williams blog post. Its a feeble attempt at satire and parody that ends up being offensive in the final analysis, Hillary Shelton, the Washington director of the NAACP, said. Shelton added that Williams blog post is yet another distraction from the real issues on the table - the real issues on the table are whether or not racist elements are inside the Tea Party. Our experience, photographs, speeches, and signs and even instances [of racist behavior] tell us that there very well are. And all we are asking, yet again, . . . is that they look from within and repudiate those elements. Lloyd Marcus, a spokesman for the Tea Party Express who is African-American, defended Williams. I know Mark Williams personally. He is not a racist and he is just being satirical to make a point, Marcus said Friday on American Morning. Saying he had attended more than 200 Tea Party gatherings across the country, Marcus also insisted that the Tea Party movement is not racist. They do not oppose [President Barack] Obamas skin color. They oppose his policies. The latest dust-up between the conservative grass-roots movement and the long-standing civil rights organization comes after days of back-and-forth between the two sides which began with the NAACP passing a resolution asking the Tea Party movement to condemn racist behavior within its ranks. Several leaders of national Tea Party groups, including Williams, responded by denying the NAACPs accusat