Muslim = N-Word and Hard working Americans = Whites

[Heather MC]

I don't believe this, but I do believe shouting "His's a muslim, is McCain's supporter comfortable way of pulling a Michael Richards. It's really sickening to me as a black person and just as an American period to hear this nonsense, and McLame pushing it along as an ok thing to him.

Particularly when you consider that McCain's adopted daughter comes from a country that is 90% Muslim.

I wish more people would stand up for Muslims like Colin Powell has done. Muhammed Ali is Muslim
Kareem Abdul Jabar is Muslim.

the word "Muslim" and the way McCain supporters us it, puts the same sick feeling in my gut
that the N-word does when I hear it being used.

[Ian David]

1. Republicans are the OTHER N-Word.

Nazis.

[daninthemoon]

2. this campaign season has used more coded words than any in 50 years.

here in Oklahoma, inhoffe has run several adds warning that rice is "not like us" then showing a split screen with rice and Obama.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. And not all Muslims are black

I still fondly recall going to teach at an inner city school in one of the larger Texas cities. The principal had a photo of Malcolm X above her desk. I smiled and said I was glad to see a photo of my brother on her wall. She did a double take and then smiled. We got along very well that year.

[dogpatch]

4. salaams!

:hi:

[Rocknrule]

5. That's what I've been saying

"Muslim" is just a code word for "n****r" when directed at Obama

[theothersnippywshrub]

6. "Muslim = N-Word and Hard working Americans = Whites" is a very good and succinct paraphrase of

Lee Atwater's description of the republican Southern Strategy.

. . .

Bob Herbert, a New York Times columnist, reported a 1981 interview with Lee Atwater, published in Southern Politics in the 1990s by Prof. Alexander P. Lamis, in which Lee Atwater discussed politics in the South:

You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say "nigger"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is blacks get hurt worse than whites.

And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger".

Herbert wrote in the same column, "The truth is that there was very little that was subconscious about the G.O.P.'s relentless appeal to racist whites. Tired of losing elections, it saw an opportunity to renew itself by opening its arms wide to white voters who could never forgive the Democratic Party for its support of civil rights and voting rights for blacks."

. . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy