Friday, October 10
“ But I’ve been thinking about this McCain-Palin Obama “palling around with terrorist” idea more lately. The saddest thing about many Republicans isn’t just that they disagree with liberals on race—it’s they are largely ignorant on race. When the McCain campaign cast the spell of diabolical jingoism, they have no idea of the forces they are toying with. We remember Martin Luther King’s murder as a sad and tragic event. Less remembered is the fact that ground-work for King’s murder was seeded, not simply by rank white supremacy, but by people who slandered King as a communist.
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Very interesting blog post from Ta-Nehisi Coates of the Atlantic.
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