Maddow Brands Gingrich’s Attack On Obama’s Singing ‘Racial Allusions,’ ‘Minstrelsy’

Mediaite ^ | January 31, 2012 | James Crugnale

[HiTech RedNeck]

While King himself had a number of foibles (he was a troublesome horndog, and in later years he leaned uncomfortably to nanny government philosophies), at least on paper he did dedicate himself to the ideal of racial equality. And for those words, whether borrowed or original, he does deserve kudos for voicing them and meaning it.

Racial parochialism is difficult to pull free of. That’s why I say “rednecks” come in many colors. (And in some accounts of the origin of the “redneck,” such as union miners in the early 1900s when treatment of workers was truly inhumane and unions had a valid role, the symbol, typically a red bandanna, was shared by men of all races.)

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Any attempt to claim that Republicans use "code words" from a faction consisting of homogeneous wire service journalism staying itself "objective" and styling its political acolytes "moderate" or "liberal" or "progressive" - none of which labels correspond to reality - comes in bad grace.

"Objective" journalists and "liberals" talk in code continuously, and accuse Republicans of doing so when in fact Republicans do not do so.