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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WEB Dubois and Robeson most definitely were commies. King flirted with socialism near the end of the life.
Hmmm, I never knew the USSR was in Africa....
shame on the lying socialist black supremacists who are trying to shoehorn the marxist Bx0 into a position in which he does not belong.
Funny...the first thing I think of when I hear the word socialist is “un-American”.
Maybe Michelle Bachman is RIGHT!
Grasping at racist straws.
I thought that “Socialist” was an old codeword for “ Communist”!!!!
The USSR had their dirty little fingers all through Africa, though ... and left a whole lot of revolutionary socialism behind.
My grandmother called them “dark clouds”.
NRA is the nation’s first civil rights organization.
Agreed. Some of the comments are priceless.
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.
Anything less than messiah and you are a racists.
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?
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.
Who knew Karl Marx was black?
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.
Change description to Marxist thug.
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.
Paul Robeson lived in Russia and supported Stalin.
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