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Shame on McCain and Palin for using an old code word for black ["Socialist"]
Kansas City Star ^ | October 21, 2008 | Lewis Diuguid

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 ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; acorn; antichrist; commies; elections; farrakhan; hussein; jeremiahwright; leftwingconspiracy; mccain; obama; palin; rats; socialism; wright
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To: Hacklehead
I didn’t know that Germany’s National Socialists were black.

Their leader was... well at the end... crispy, too

121 posted on 10/21/2008 2:54:33 PM PDT by aflaak
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To: GunRunner
Paul Robeson was an admitted communist who supported the Soviet Union

Although he always denied it, the CP-USA has acknowleded him as a member.

And like W.E.B. Du Bois (who did declare his own membership), Robeson was awarded the Stalin/Lenin Peace Prize

122 posted on 10/21/2008 2:55:32 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Polybius
I never knew until now that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a black nation. I guess we now now that the Soviets were "Black Russians".

Of course they were. The Soviets fought the White Russians in the 1918-21 Russian Civil War.

123 posted on 10/21/2008 3:02:33 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Tublecane

“Hoover called plenty of people commies. And Robeson was a Stalinist. Case closed.”

Robeson sure was an admirer of the USSR, his recording of the Soviet national anthem can be found on Youtube. Most of the people Hoover (and Sen. McCarthy) called Commies really WERE Commies!!


124 posted on 10/21/2008 3:04:28 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

Hmmmmmm.

125 posted on 10/21/2008 3:11:38 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (10 years on Free Republic. Yikes!)
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To: Palladin
All the socialists in Russia and Germany were white.

And these ladies are about as white as you can get, and their country is socialist too.

Swedish volleyball players,Karin Lundquist and Angelica Ljungquist.

126 posted on 10/21/2008 3:18:30 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn


127 posted on 10/21/2008 3:28:40 PM PDT by XR7
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To: ncfool
The MSM, in general, and the Kansas City Star, in particular, have been responsible for a lot of ignorant assertions in my lifetime.

But ol' Lewis here may have just topped the chart.

The old axiom about "better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt" comes to mind.

Only an ignorant racist hack could write a piece like this.

128 posted on 10/21/2008 3:28:40 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: Oztrich Boy
I never knew until now that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a black nation. I guess we now now that the Soviets were "Black Russians".

Of course they were. The Soviets fought the White Russians in the 1918-21 Russian Civil War.

The combatants:


129 posted on 10/21/2008 3:31:48 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

The author’s right. It’s not fair to call DuBois and Robeson socialists. They were in fact, Communists (supporters of the Third International, not the moderate Western European Second International that became Social Democrats).

Robeson himself was such a supporter of Stalin that he advocated all non-Stalinists to be shot. He never apologized either. When he visited the Soviet Union, he got the red carpet treatment. He was the Soviet propagandists’ number one useful idiot in America.

Obama himself might be a communist and not just a socialist. He’s certainly to the left of the French, British (Labour), and German (Social Democratic) Socialist parties.


130 posted on 10/21/2008 3:35:13 PM PDT by NationalConservative
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To: Polybius
I never knew until now that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a black nation. I guess we now now that the Soviets were "Black Russians".

Heh, that would be news to the Russians. For the most part, they really do not like black people.

131 posted on 10/21/2008 3:35:39 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (... against all enemies, foreign and domestic.)
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To: Moconservative
I live in Kansas City and have to see this guys opinions all the time. I would say 25% of his columns are about race and pulling the race card in any way he can. He can take any word or any situation and call it racist. A socialist is a socialist and it is not race related.

He must hate billiards then.

To paraphrase Martin Lawrence, the WHITE ball smacks all the colored balls into the pockets and then smashes the BLACK ball into the hole at the very end.

132 posted on 10/21/2008 3:39:29 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (... against all enemies, foreign and domestic.)
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To: tx_eggman


133 posted on 10/21/2008 3:39:58 PM PDT by Harrius Magnus (LIBERALS: We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...


134 posted on 10/21/2008 3:44:09 PM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: Polybius
I guess we now now that the Soviets were "Black Russians".

I thought that was vodka and kahlua.

-PJ

135 posted on 10/21/2008 3:48:12 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (You can never overestimate the Democrats' ability to overplay their hand.)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

Is it just me, or does it seem as though the majority of Blacks are begging us to become racists???

This junk is wearing me out.


136 posted on 10/21/2008 3:53:36 PM PDT by Gator113 ("Noli nothis permittere te terere.")
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To: tx_eggman



137 posted on 10/21/2008 3:54:27 PM PDT by Harrius Magnus (LIBERALS: We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.)
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To: Centurion2000; Political Junkie Too
I guess we now now that the Soviets were "Black Russians".

Heh, that would be news to the Russians. For the most part, they really do not like black people.

Who's talkin' about "people". ;-)

See Post 129.

138 posted on 10/21/2008 3:54:56 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: tx_eggman

Okay then...we’ll skip “socialist” and go straight to COMMUNIST...

Put the TRUE face on it, so we know what the enemy really is.

Howzzat for a code word?
Thanks for psoting the pic, tx_eggman!


139 posted on 10/21/2008 4:32:25 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By any means necessary.)
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To: Fresh Wind

“...Hmmmmmmm...”

Ahh, The “Buckwheat and Skeletor Hour”

One full hour of whining, pointing fingers, ignoring fact and logic, and labeling anything remotely conservative “racist”.

Now THAT’s Entertainment!!!!


140 posted on 10/21/2008 4:36:33 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By any means necessary.)
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