Shame on McCain and Palin for using an old code word for black

[OrangeEmpire]

Shame on McCain and Palin for using an old code word for black | Midwest Voices

The "socialist" label that Sen. John McCain and his GOP presidential running mate Sarah Palin are trying to attach to Sen. Barack Obama actually has long and very ugly historical roots.
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI from 1924 to 1972, used the term liberally to describe African Americans who spent their lives fighting for equality.
Those freedom fighters included the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who led the Civil Rights Movement; W.E.B. Du Bois, who in 1909 helped found the NAACP which is still the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization; Paul Robeson, a famous singer, actor and political activist who in the 1930s became involved in national and international movements for better labor relations, peace and racial justice; and A. Philip Randolph, who founded and was the longtime head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and a leading advocate for civil rights for African Americans.
McCain and Palin have simply reached back in history to use an old code word for black. It set whites apart from those deemed unAmerican and those who could not be trusted during the communism scare.
Shame on McCain and Palin.

Thoughts?

 

[T-TownVol]

This is about as big of a stretch as the "anti-christ" rants

 

[Headed For Home]

The author needs to look up the term "socialist" before deciding that it was improperly used.

 

[TennNC]

I think, "More and more, I can't tell the difference between McCain and Palin and the crazy people at their rallies."

 

[MG1968]

Thoughts?

the writer is a jackass

 

[SavageOrangeJug]

I think, "More and more, I can't tell the difference between McCain and Palin and the crazy people at their rallies."

As opposed to wild eyed liberals that live in trees?

As opposed to Code Pink liberals?

As opposed to B. Hussein Obama's 'church' he spent twenty years in?

As opposed to bombers who rub shoulders with Hugo Chavez?

The list goes on and on.....

 

[bigtime]

the writer is ignorant to even try and make that comparison

 

[GAVol]

This is about as big of a stretch as the "anti-christ" rants

It's the same sort of logic . . . tortured.

 

[T-TownVol]

It's the same sort of logic . . . tortured.

SHHHHH...don't say tortured...what are you a racist?

 

[superdave1984]

November 5 can't come fast enough.

 

[therealUT]

Yep.

 

[allvol123]

I thought "welfare" was a code word for black. This is all so confusing.

 

[SavageOrangeJug]

I thought "welfare" was a code word for black. This is all so confusing.

That was last week's word.

"Crime" is this week's code word.

 

[allvol123]

Thanks.

 

[GAVol]

SHHHHH...don't say tortured...what are you a racist?

It's OK. I'm allowed to use code words since I've already voted.

 

[kptvol]

I think, "More and more, I can't tell the difference between McCain and Palin and the crazy people at their rallies."

Obama told democrats to get in people's faces that disagree with them shortly after rioters outside the Republican National Convention turned violent.

 

[JZVOL]

Shame on McCain and Palin for using an old code word for black | Midwest Voices



Thoughts?

I think the author is a... punk

 

[SavageOrangeJug]

Socialist come in all colors.

 

[allvol123]

The columnist is a member of The Kansas City Association of Black Journalists. Makes sense he would write such nonsense as this, he lives his life focused on skin color. What absolute silliness.