I don't want to casually throw around the accusation that McCain is a racist, but between his "gook" comment and initial non-apology, his "tar baby" comment, the "bomb Iran" song, his ambivalence on the Confederate flag, his vote against a federal Martin Luther King holiday, his attempt to rescind the King holiday at the state level, and given some of the questionable people he is choosing to associate with (e.g. McCain's Florida campaign chair Bob Allen, who was caught offering a Black undercover cop $20 for a blowjob and cynically blamed his behavior on the scariness of Black people, paleoconservative, as in pro-Confederacy, political consultant Richard Quinn, George "Macaca" Allen, who McCain campained for heavily in 2006, and several others) McCain has accumulated a pretty f---ed-up pattern of behavior around racial issues. Let's see if it will make any kind of difference with the voters.
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The Real McCain on Race and Immigration
Democrats Repudiate McCain Surrogate's 'Tiger Woods' Comment
John McCain Has a Racist on His Campaign Payroll
Jon Stewart Slams McCain’s Racist, Hypocritical, Disgraceful FL Campaign Chair
John McCain's MLK Day: "Pandering" to the Racist Right
DNC: John McCain's Real Record on MLK Holiday
McCain on MLK Holiday
McCain's problematic race record
McCain uses term ‘tar baby’
Grenada and McCain
john mccain: "i hated the gooks. i will hate them as long as i live."
mccain: no you can't
mccain's spiritual advisor hates muslims and islam
should john mccain reject and denounce minister john hagee?
4 comments:
what about white muslims? you seem to have missed them out of your racist blog. they do exist you know, try looking in bosnia or albania, try looking beyond your narrow-minded geographic boundaries.
So firstly, I would totally question your concept of racist. I'm a Afro-Latino Muslim so I wanted to create a blog to allow me to reflect on "black stuff" "latin stuff" and "muslim stuff" especially in combination, and preferably in a way which wasn't just navel-gazing but directed outwards on current events and political questions. That's not something I found anywhere else so it was something I felt like I wanted to explore. Just because the blog may focus on one group of people and not another that doesn't make it racist.
Secondly, I think you should actually read the blog more thoroughly before making comments like you have because I actually have included posts on white Muslims per se:
white muslims
so white they named white people after them
white muslims and moorish science
and also posts on specific white Muslim contributions to Islam:
the jihad of imam shamyl
daniel abdal-hayy moore
islam and the cultural imperative
and have included white Muslims on my blogroll (e.g. Umar Lee, Godblogger (Maryam) , Bin Gregory, and others)
Thirdly, I am sympathetic to groups like the Kosovars and Chechens etc. and actually do try to stay aware of their situation and am happy when I read about them making promise but 1) that doesn't make them a relevant subject for the purposes of this particular blog and 2) however i might sympathize, i'm certainly not particularly knowledgeable in what is going on there.
"promise" should be "progress"
ahhh one of the reasons I closed comments on my blog.
Back on the subject at hand though, I don't think it will affect those who already support McCain because I think they already agree with all that stuff. If anything, his non-apologies and non-refutations (like today on This Week) are a play to right leaning undecided and independent voters. The Republicans have gotten very far by essentially writing off anyone not white, male and Christian (at least by profession). Anyone else they get are people tired of the Democrats but not left enough to join alternate parties like the Green Party.
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