GOP is already down to overt Racism. That didn't take long!

[troublemaker]

Isn't it a little early in the campaign for direct overt racism? They must know they're in deep trouble for Matt Drudge to be putting these two images (shown below) side-by-side as purported illustration of Kerry's NAACP speech. (http://www.drudgereport.com/)





As an old-timer I feel like I'm back in 1972, with the Republican characterization of McGovern's platform as "Acid, Amnesty and Abortion."

[xchrom]

1. all i can say is

power to the people
power to the people
power to the people -- right on
they can racist all they want -- to some people it evokes a very, very different image and time.
one that's infinitely more powerful and positive.

[fishwax]

25. Well said

they can racist all they want -- to some people it evokes a very, very different image and time.
one that's infinitely more powerful and positive.

Well put, and thanks for saying it.

[DenverDem]

2. "Acid, amnesty and abortion!!!"

Nothing wrong with that platform.

The McGovern campaign is where I learned cynicism about amerikkka. And no matter how cynical I have gotten, I still can't keep up with the wrong wing's filth.

Lucianne Goldberg, who ran the monica scam on the Big Dog, was the dirty trickster who went undercover in the McGovern campaign and outed his VP candidate for having had electroshock therapy. The same slime that are working for busholini now, were fucking that great man, George McGovern, then.

Wake up, amerikkka. This is your last chance to save America.

[porphyrian]

3. Oh, I think we're taking it back like a motherfucker... - n/t

[tom_paine]

12. back to 18-60-fucking-ONE!

[DoBotherMe]

4. He raises his fist all the time

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20040710/capt.nccb10607102311.democratic_ticket_kerry


D ; )

[bushisanidiot]

5. Nice Freep Quotes About This Picture:

"To: OXENinFLA
U have GOT to be kidding me... Does he think he is a brutha fighting the "man"??? HE IS THE "MAN" according to NAALCP.

2 posted on 07/15/2004 12:04:19 PM PDT by smith288 (Flush the Johns! Bush-Cheney '04)

To: OXENinFLA; Mudboy Slim; Owl_Eagle
Krazee Mofo(sp?) to person on left: "Man, this guy is a dork! I think I'll vote for Bush again an' get me another tax cut!"

16 posted on 07/15/2004 12:08:04 PM PDT by HenryLeeII (Rest in peace, sultan88)

To: OXENinFLA
I think he's waving to P-Diddy. Just a brotha keepin' it real--fo'schnizzle.

23 posted on 07/15/2004 12:08:50 PM PDT by Callahan

To: OXENinFLA
Yeeeaah. I sired four bastards. No child support. Don't wan't no baby's mama drama cluttering up Kweisi's funk. Dat's how we do it up in heeere boyee!

24 posted on 07/15/2004 12:09:04 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid

To: OXENinFLA
I think he's just trying to impress his moneybags dream date Oprah. Teresa better watchout before her baby daddy goes fo-schnizzle on her izzle. Fizzle.

38 posted on 07/15/2004 12:12:46 PM PDT by Callahan

To: OXENinFLA

Right on my bruthas! Power to the people!

43 posted on 07/15/2004 12:13:32 PM PDT by dennisw

To: OXENinFLA
I was black....before I was white!

45 posted on 07/15/2004 12:14:17 PM PDT by Bommer

To: dennisw
Why didn't Kerry wear his dashiki and fro out his hair?

48 posted on 07/15/2004 12:14:46 PM PDT by SMARTY

To: workerbee
Back in the day blacks that I knew got highly insulted by this type of display. Are these ni...sorry blacks so shallow as to not care about being used?

I swear.

112 posted on 07/15/2004 12:41:37 PM PDT by gathersnomoss

To: HenryLeeII
Krazee Mofo

According to my Highschool Ebonics class, his name is pronounced "Gob-stoppy Jalama" with a Obantu accent and "Majombly Wombly" with the Watusi accent.
Owl_Eagle

113 posted on 07/15/2004 12:41:44 PM PDT by Owl_Eagle

To: OXENinFLA
Please stay on the plantation and vote for me. See? I'm doing that thing you little black folk do. (And I am sure you are all stupid and gullible enough to fall for my cheap pandering. Now be good niggahs and fetch your rich white massah up some votes!)

153 posted on 07/15/2004 1:09:37 PM PDT by broadsword

To: Chieftain
Oh Hell no!!!! All he needs to do now is go to a black church say a couple of prayers and do the electric slide and he is the 2nd black president. Seems like that is all a white liberals as to do. What a crock of S@*t! This man is the ultimate panderer John KPOC Kerry

157 posted on 07/15/2004 1:17:37 PM PDT by Warrior Nurse

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whassup homies!

161 posted on 07/15/2004 1:21:17 PM PDT by Legion04

[DenverDem]

8. I call them racist white trash, busholini calls them "his base".

Complete anti-Americans, these are the traitors in this fight, these nazi wannabe slime.

[greekspeak]

10. What lovely racist slurs

Isn't it nice how they attack African Americans with stupid stereotypes at the same time they attack John Kerry for standing next to an African American? Slimeballs.

[LuminousX]

11. But, but it must be pandering!

He can't honestly support African-Americans, Kerry HAS to be pandering and the NAACP is just too stupid to see a panderer when one is standing in front of them.

Unlike Bush. Bush never panders.

[greekspeak]

16. I know that meme!

Its one of my father's favorites! Democrats pander to African Americans, who SHOULD be voting Repuke. After all, the Repukes can offer them...um...hmmm...drawing a blank here. Yeah. That and democratic policies keep African Americans on welfare to control them. Yeah...that's the ticket. :eyes:

[belle]

18. Well, according to freep mentality, apparently

black people should be grateful for everything Bush has done for them, and the *good* ones still are; but these guys are apparently too stupid to know what's good for them. therefore it is now okay to use the word "nigger" and references to Ebonics and lines about having too many kids and mock slang and so on. because it's *Kerry* who's the racist. Aren't you glad they cleared that up for us all?

[NewYorkerfromMass]

13. Black envy

they're fucking jealous.
They have no rapport with the African American community whatsoever.
They haven't a clue, except that they're on the outside looking in.

[alarcojon]

14. You can't get much more blatantly racist than this

short of peppering some of the comments with the n-word. Let's hope for a repeat of 1992, when the racial hostility spilled over into Pat Robertson and Pat Buchanan's convention speeches.

[belle]

19. They DID pepper it.

[Ducks In A Row]

15. And these are the people who are Bush's base

and the ones that Slimfast listen too.

Whoopi is better off without them.

[NightOwwl]

26. This is probably what Bush and Cheney

sound like when they're alone together.

[troublemaker]

6. It occurred to me after posting this that

some folks under 40 might not see this as jarringly over-the-top rascist because "Black Power" is a tepid cliche in today's world, but it was once a revolutionary slogan and to paranoid whites it was the "jihad" of its day.

Drudge is trying to connect Kerry's early 1970s anti-war activism with the more violent elements of early 1970s black movements; The Black Panthers, etc.. (The button pictured is presumably about 35 years old.)

[BrotherBuzz]

21. Some of us over forty...

have fond memories of the Black Panthers that reach back to the sixties. I condone what they attempted to do despite the attacks from the media and the White Wing. Heck, Black Power meant community based service programs such as breakfasts for school children, free busing for senior citizens, (SAFE - Senior Against a Fearful Environment), preventative medical health care, co-operative housing, people's free food programs, and many others along with mass voter registration drives. Nothing to be afraid of! Funny how Bush* and his faith based schemes seems like a new radical idea, yet a community based service system was in place but the powers-that-be choose to ignore it.


Black Power!
People Power!
Power to the people!

[Unperson 309]

22. When I Worked In LA

I would ALWAYS buy the Nation of Islam Bakeries sweet potato pie! There was a wonderful fellow who sold them on the street outside the office. He was neatly dressed, suit and tie, looked better than I did! :) The pie was (IIRC) $1.50. Every day I gave him two ones and said "Keep the change!" Those pies were DELICIOUS!

*sigh* I miss them and I miss him. I think his name was Rasul.

309

[BrotherBuzz]

23. New Black Panther Party isn't the Black Panther Party

A group calling themselves the New Black Panther Party emerged from the Nation of Islam decades after the fall of the original Black Panthers. Members of the original Black Panther Party have been publicly and adamantly critical of them. For example, the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation insists that there "is no new Black Panther Party". I supported the Black Panther Party and their efforts to improve their community, but I can't abide the Nation of Islam and their bigoted beliefs (hey, just my opinion).

Here's the original Black Panther Ten point plan that I find little fault with (remember, Vietnam and the draft was pretty hot when you read number six)....

The Ten Points:

1.We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community.
2.We want full employment for our people.
3.We want an end to the robbery by the white man of our Black Community.
4.We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings.
5.We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society.
6.We want all black men to be exempt from military service.
7.We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of black people.
8.We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails.
9.We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States.
10.We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace.

Mmmm, Sweet potato pie!

[Jacobin]

7. Smirk's base is lovin' it. I mean EATING IT UP

Smirky knows he'll get less than 10% of the African American vote, so he's ditched em.

Soccer moms will be uncomfortable with this, though....

[LuminousX]

9. Moderate Ameicans

Like their bigotry to be covert and quiet so they can pretend they aren't being bigots.

Let the GOP bring out their bigotry and put it on display. Big tent, indeed. Compassionate? Only to those who think like them. Their hatred will turn off the moderates. Of course, I'm not above pointing out their hatred to every moderate I come across.

"See the GOP, see their bigotry. Do you want to be associated with hate mongers?"

[DancingBear]

17. Un -f*&%(ng-believeable

Can John Carlos, Tommie Smith and the black gloves be far behind???

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

20. Maybe I am missing something here

after all I am a capuccino swillin' lib-ruhl, but what the hell is wrong with Kerry raising his fist like that? I've seen him in that pose about a million times. And what's wrong with it looking like that button? Is there something wrong with black power?

Nevermind. Just answered my own question. It's red meat to their fearful bigoted base for whom black power is a SCARY SCARY thing.

Geez. I swear this year is going to make my eyeballs roll RIGHT out of my head.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

24. Chris Matthews has shown his RACISM with his....

attack on the NAACP for not being kind he his "master" *!

:puke:

[bushisanidiot]

27. I watched this clip on tv last night and it was clear that Kerry did NOT

hold up his fist (for black pride) as the RNC propagandist, Drudge implies. Kerry was clearly pumping his fist like he does at every rally and the picture was taken for the VERY brief moment that his fist was high in the air.

He was clearly NOT giving the black power sign..

The RNC can just keep spinning their wheels trying to accuse the democrats of pandering, but it's NOWHERE near reality. They just can't stand that our party is so diverse and welcoming of everyone, which leaves those white, racist, homophobic, christian fundies VERY much outnumbered.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!

[truthspeaker]

28. Power to the People!

And you thought the beat slowed down
Power to the people
Get on up get into it get involved
Feel the bass as the cut revolves
To the brothers wit the 808
Like I said before PE got a brand new funk
Turn it up boom the trunk yeah
Internationally known on the microphone
Makin' sure the brothers will never leave you alone
To my sisters
Sisters yes we missed ya
Let's get it together make a nation
You can bet on it, don't sleep on it
'Cause the troops cold jeepin' it pumpin
(Power to the people)
Turn us loose we shall overcome
They say where you get that bass from
Hey ohh people, people as we continue on
Come along, sings this song, are you ready for '91
Rhythm nation pump that bass an
We like to know from Chicago, New York and LA
Are y'all ready, cause the plans in the jam
And we're ready to roll yo y'all got to tell me
Are y'all read read to go c'mon
(Power to the people)
Had to kick it like that as we roll as one
One under the sun, to all the cities and the side
Stateside and the whole wide
There it is

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