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Shame On McCain + Palin For Using An Old Code Word For Black-(SOCIALIST)
Kansas City Star ^ | 8-21-08 | Lewis Diuguid

Posted on 10/22/2008 7:36:51 AM PDT by tcrlaf

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.

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 ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: codeword; obama; racecard; racism; socialism
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To: tcrlaf

WEB Dubois and Robeson most definitely were commies. King flirted with socialism near the end of the life.


21 posted on 10/22/2008 7:43:26 AM PDT by Tublecane
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To: tcrlaf

Hmmm, I never knew the USSR was in Africa....


22 posted on 10/22/2008 7:43:51 AM PDT by Stingray51
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To: tcrlaf

shame on the lying socialist black supremacists who are trying to shoehorn the marxist Bx0 into a position in which he does not belong.


23 posted on 10/22/2008 7:44:29 AM PDT by ichabod1 (You won't know communism is here until it puts a boot in your (fat) bottom.)
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To: tcrlaf

Funny...the first thing I think of when I hear the word socialist is “un-American”.

Maybe Michelle Bachman is RIGHT!


24 posted on 10/22/2008 7:44:40 AM PDT by woweeitsme
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To: tcrlaf

Grasping at racist straws.


25 posted on 10/22/2008 7:44:44 AM PDT by manic4organic (Obama/Biden Palin comparison.)
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To: tcrlaf

I thought that “Socialist” was an old codeword for “ Communist”!!!!


26 posted on 10/22/2008 7:44:59 AM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: Stingray51

The USSR had their dirty little fingers all through Africa, though ... and left a whole lot of revolutionary socialism behind.


27 posted on 10/22/2008 7:45:25 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: tcrlaf

My grandmother called them “dark clouds”.


28 posted on 10/22/2008 7:45:36 AM PDT by albie
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To: SJSAMPLE

NRA is the nation’s first civil rights organization.


29 posted on 10/22/2008 7:46:16 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: tcrlaf

Boo Freakin' Hoo!


30 posted on 10/22/2008 7:46:24 AM PDT by TommyDale (I) (Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
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To: Sister_T
Read the comments to this writer. Most of them blast this guy for being such a fool.

Agreed. Some of the comments are priceless.

31 posted on 10/22/2008 7:46:42 AM PDT by Blennos (High Point, NC)
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To: tcrlaf

Hate filled smear by Lewis Diuguid. The idea being to bully people into voting for Obama. This tactic would become normal operating procedure for an Obama administration. Silence all dissent. At some point early on they’d come for our guns. This time the dems don’t plan to give up power, ever. They’d rather live under tyranny, and they’re out of their minds.


32 posted on 10/22/2008 7:47:14 AM PDT by hershey
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To: tcrlaf
Ok.... Now, if you oppose Obama in ANY WAY, you are a racist.

Anything less than messiah and you are a racists.

33 posted on 10/22/2008 7:47:35 AM PDT by True Grit
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To: tcrlaf

It’s getting increasingly difficult for me to refrain from using some of the REAL “code words” for African Americans that having been uttered in polite society for decades. I ask again: How do they get away with this nonsense?


34 posted on 10/22/2008 7:48:03 AM PDT by ravensandricks (Jesus rides beside me. He never buys any smokes.)
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To: tcrlaf
I've got another word that should cause me to be labeled a racist - PLANTATION.

In this analogy, the PLANTATION masters are the liberal democrats and their black (or is it more PC to refer to them as African-Americans) leaders, and pretty much have been the PLANTATION masters since FDR implemented socialism. Gotta keep everybody dependent on Uncle Sugar's PLANTATION.

35 posted on 10/22/2008 7:48:11 AM PDT by Hat-Trick (Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
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To: tcrlaf

Who knew Karl Marx was black?


36 posted on 10/22/2008 7:48:20 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Obama is not qualified for the FBI, but he is qualified for the Presidency????)
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To: tcrlaf

Shame on you, you race-baiting liberal racists in Kansas City. I thot the race card was only to be used in EMERGENCIES, when there was no other leg to stand on.

Oh, wait, I get it. You are desperate, you have NO other leg to stand on.

And you are vile and despicable beyond belief.


37 posted on 10/22/2008 7:48:22 AM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: tcrlaf

Change description to Marxist thug.


38 posted on 10/22/2008 7:48:35 AM PDT by listenhillary (Should we turn Alaska or Texas into our Galt's Gulch?)
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To: tcrlaf

All the old racist code words were used by the old racist Democrats. The Dems are the party that embraces socialism. That doesn’t make sense.


39 posted on 10/22/2008 7:48:44 AM PDT by noob4palin (That's Governor Palin to you.)
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To: tcrlaf

Paul Robeson lived in Russia and supported Stalin.


40 posted on 10/22/2008 7:49:05 AM PDT by LauraJean (sometimes I win sometimes I donate to the equine benevolent society)
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