Shame on McCain and Palin for using an old code word for black ("Socialist")

Kansas City Star ^ | October 21, 2008 | Lewis Diuguid

[buccaneer81]

Shame on McCain and Palin for using an old code word for black By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist 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.

[Shqipo]

>>>I hate Illinois Nazis.<<<
—This should be our battlecry.

[Interesting Times]

Leftists will play the race card until it quits working.

This would be a very good time for that to happen.

[ClaudiusI]

You can make this kinda s-— up.

[Brown Deer]

Hitler was black?

[Revolting cat!]

How about ‘Communist’ after his mentor ‘Frank’?

[IrishCatholic]

Lewis is a two knuckle deep nose picker which is a code word for someone who is a two knuckle deep nose picker.

The fact he is in the management of the Star is a good indication of its journalistic quality.

He usually depants himself on Wednesdays with such pearls. Or, at least he used to when I needed the paper to line the litter box.

[purplelobster]

This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve seen in awhile. If anything I would say “Socialist” is a code word for tall bony black-turtlenecked folk singers. After Barack outlined his economic plan it’s difficult to say that it’s not Socialism.

[landerwy]

Yeah, and don’t call him by his middle name either.

[Dallas59]

Hussein is half black but he's %100 Socialist.

[sobieski]

I thought socialist was a code word for “Jew”

[khnyny]

It’s not the most intellectual argument...

I prefer to deal with facts, not emotion. Although, emotion is not a bad thing, if it helps us to be more loving, compassionate people. But facts are facts.

[skimbell]

[calcowgirl]

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 ...

I believe he accurately called them "Communists."

[Shelayne]

* Rolling eyes *

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

This is the dumbest thing I’ve read in a long time. And given the jaw-dropping dumbness of so much that has been written this election cycle, that says a lot.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Lewis sure toes the plantation line.

[P8riot]

What you say Willis?

P8riot

[Gay State Conservative]

OK...fair enough.I'll never again refer to Osama as a socialist.From now on he's a Maoist.

[SECURE AMERICA]

Okay he is a socialist and we can not call him one so from now on I will call him what I beleive him to be, a Communist

[wac3rd]

Can I say bucktoothed geek and still be PC?