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.
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I REALLY DO hope America wakes up from this nightmare before election day. If we don't, we deserve EVERYTHING that is about to happen to us.
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“... who in 1909 helped found the NAACP which is still the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization;”
Really?
I’d think the NRA would have something to say about that.
“I REALLY DO hope America wakes up from this nightmare before election day.”
I hope so, too! If Obama is elected, then God help us all!
That’s fine. McCain and Palin should just call them what they really are:
Communists and Marxists.
They race-bait at every opportunity.
MCCAIN should call them crybaby’s.
Then every time they cry racism, it is reinforced.
...of things to come
I’m going to use a code word for “stupid”.
Dork!
Read the comments to this writer. Most of them blast this guy for being such a fool.
Is there any word left in the language which is not a code word for black or doesn’t offend their sensibilities??
"You know that package?"
"The one for our friend in Jersey?"
"No, the other package."
"You mean the one from Brooklyn?"
"No, I mean the other package.
"Oh, yeah. What's happening with it?"
"It won't be showing up again."
Anyone remember Charlie Rangel saying: "Tax cuts are a code word for racism"? I do.
If these people would learn to stop thinking in euphemisms to hide what they're up to, maybe they would learn to just listen to what's being said instead of assuming everything is a code word for something nefarious.
I believed the end of freedom in the US was nigh, but I mistakenly thought we had another 10-20 yrs.
I’ve since significantly reduced that estimate.
Beginning of a new lie. Socialist never equated to Black.
Lewis is a code word to idiot.
I guess his parents knew what they would raise.
covered in great detail...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=code%20word
W.E.B. DuBois is an interesting historical character. He was socialist because he believed in wealth redistribution and a central, planned economy- NOT because he was black. He was also a dear friend of Margaret Sanger and believed- and WROTE- that “ignorant Southern Negroes” should be forceably sterilized.
Some “icon”, eh?
The left has been trained to understand that their critics will shut up when accused of racism.
Time to make this tactic powerless.
I’m a victim! I’m a victim! Woe is me!
Much of emotional illness is rooted in self-absorbed victim identity (often for understandable reason).
Liberalism is likewise rooted in self-absorbed victim identity.
Both are sicknesses.
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