Surprise, surprise, surprise
Posted on 10/21/2008 12:30:04 PM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at voices.kansascity.com ...
If Karl Marx himself were running for president, the media would scoff at claims he was a Marxist and cry "McCarthyism."
Karl Marx ain’t black.
Someone’s smoking way too much pot.
Let me guess, the other “code words” include but are not limited to “liar”, “voter fraud,” “liberal,” “inexperienced,” “that one.....” and others terms to be added as the need arises.
Surprise, surprise, surprise
Damm that tough that McClatchy the Parent company of the Kansas City (FALLING STAR)Star is in trouble. As of October I am newspaper free. I had a 25 year subscription to the Kansas City Star better known as the “Falling Star” and give it up for good.
Did you know that McClatchy handles their customer service call center for the Kansas City (Falling Star) Star from overseas. Yes its in Manila in the Phillipines.
Now how is that for a Red White and Blue newspaper.
Talk about moving operations of shore. What does Obama/Biden think about this issue.
I also know that the do their Typesetting know in India. I bet Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank has given the McClatchy special incentives for getting ride of the high paying Union jobs?
Good thing they didn’t call him “Black!”
I didn’t know that Germany’s National Socialists were black.
We do not speak in a veiled language. Our Socialist term means Socialist!
you forgot, “hungry, poor, fat, skinny,” etc.
“candidate” is a gateway codeword
Haven't looked at his corpse lately, so I can't speak to his current color.
“Socialist, PLEASE.”
Nice to see Urkel landed a career after television.
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was not a socialist. He was a Christian and Republican.
If I understand this screed correctly, one is not allowed to describe black socialists as “socialists” because they are black. Am I allowed to call the author “idiotic,” or not?
This guy doesn’t know much about history.
All the socialists in Russia and Germany were white.
Well, Louis, you’re a helluva man.
BTW, I thought MLK, Jr. was a Republican?
And Mr. Obama ain’t Jackie Robinson. He was a Republican, too.
PS: Er, Louis, lose those glasses, okay, Skippy?
Socialism is code for communism and big government.....why do all blacks think everything is all about THEM? Karl Marx was not black. and the truth is this election is not about race, it’s about socialism v capitalism.
MLK Jr. WAS dabbling in socialist class warfare rhetoric near the end of his life. Doesn’t mean that all of his agenda was socialist in nature but it does give a hint of where the focus was shifting.
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