Shame On McCain + Palin For Using An Old Code Word For Black-(SOCIALIST)

Kansas City Star ^ | 8-21-08 | Lewis Diuguid

[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.

[CodeToad]

Since when was “black” and “socialist” ever synonymous??

Is this anything like Obama’s “autobiography”, written by Bill Ayers, stating “typical white person”?

[Maelstorm]

There is one solution to where we are headed and I hate the thought of it.

[HawaiianGecko]

When I think of socialist I think of Lenin, Marx and Mao.  I didn't know they were black.  Guess I still learn something new everyday.  I have never thought of MLK as a socialist. Civil rights and government control of the economy aren't even in the same league, let alone the same ball park.

What a lame story.