There's a guy who never took the kool-aid. I am so glad people are waking up. Too bad it happened after voting him in a second time
President Obama Lazy?
On Sunday, during an appearance on Meet The Press, Colin Powell condemned the GOP’s “dark vein of intolerance” and the party’s repeated use of racial code words to oppose President Obama and rally white conservative voters.
Without mentioning names, Powell singled out former Mitt Romney surrogate and New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu for calling Obama “lazy” and Sarah Palin, who, Powell charged, used slavery-era terms to describe Obama:
POWELL: There’s also a dark — a dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party. What do I mean by that? I mean by that that they still sort of look down on minorities. How can I evidence that?
Colin Powell Calls Out The GOP's Racism Problem: There Is 'A Dark Vein Of Intolerance' | ThinkProgress
Blacks see "racial code words" in everything. Anyone remember (i think it was) a Black city council member objected to a White council member's use of "black hole" when describing a budget situation, claiming it was racist?
No these code word are historical and have been used during slavery and Jim crow times, such as Lazy , break him etc. they are known as dog whistle words and that is why they are used. General Power called the Republicans out on this more them once. Just as the smear of Hollywood is used as a code word for saying the Liberal Jews are in control of Hollywood. Learn some history. these words are used on purpose to arouse the bitter old white base of the now regional republican party
Dog-whistle politics is political messaging employing coded language that appears to mean one thing to the general population but has an additional, different or more specific resonance for a targeted subgroup. The phrase is only ever used as a pejorative, because of the inherently deceptive nature of the practice and because the dog-whistle messages are frequently themselves distasteful, for example by empathizing with racist attitudes. It is an analogy to dog whistles, which are built in such a way that their high-frequency whistle is heard by dogs, but is inaudible to humans.
The term can be distinguished from "code words" used by hospital staff or other specialist workers, in that dog-whistling is specific to the political realm, and the messaging referred to as the dog-whistle has an understandable meaning for a general audience, rather than being incomprehensible.
An example or one of yours ina moment of honesty :In 1981, former Republican Party strategist Lee Atwater when giving an interview discussing the GOP's Southern Strategy he said
"You start out in 1954 by saying, "******, ******, ******." By 1968, you can't say "******" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now that you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is that 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 "******, ******"".
