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Posted on 10/21/2008 4:07:20 PM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at voices.kansascity.com ...
How long has that guy in the photo been parting his teeth down the middle?
LEWIS W. DIUGUID
WOULD PROPERLY BE CALLED A ‘RACE MAN’
From a recent commentary titled: If Obama wins, we may rediscover America
“If Obama wins, black children who say the Pledge of Allegiance in school won’t face the ugly realization that “liberty and justice for all” were just pretty words to people like me and older who could never dream of being president of the United States.”
LOL...I never knew that Ted Kennedy and JF’nK were Black, but they certainly are Socialists.
These Black columnists are getting funnier every day. They certainly owe their paychecks to affirmative action.
“Since 1995 he has co-chaired the diversity initiative at The Star and since 1993 has facilitated diversityworkshops for Star Co. staffers, colleges and community organizations.”
Figures. A diversity pimp.
Yes. Same here.
Do the socialists call each other "Comrade"?
How about we call him “traitor”? It fits, and everyone knows Benedict Arnold was a white guy.
You can just keep calling them democrats, same thing
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