OPINION: Right-Wing Obama HATERS Should Stop Speaking In CODE

[Segami]

" For weeks now I have sat back and watched how many people in the media have used different code words when describing the president and many issues involving African people. I am writing this open letter today to ask you to be honest with your thoughts. Many of you are using code words such as: Communist, Socialist, Marxist or other phrases such as “we want our country back”. This letter is to ask you to say what you really mean…And that is you don’t want a Black man in the White House.


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Many Americans of Caucasian descent listen to and follow Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh on an every day basis. These are some of the main perpetrators of this code language involving the President and many African Americans in this country. I issue this challenge to the three stogies and any of their counter parts to a presidential style debate on the issues.


When I hear the code words that you all are using such as: We want our country back, isn’t this all of our country? If my history is correct my ancestors helped to create this country as we know it today. Even in slavery time we created inventions and a work force that fueled the economic development of this country. So whose country is it anyway? Some of you make the argument that we need to get back to the constitution, what the framers of the constitution had in mind. Again, if my history is correct the framers never had the poor or the blacks in mind when they were framing the constitution. So I ask you again, stop speaking in code and just say what you feel. You cannot take a black man being president of the United States.


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[Bigmack]

1. I was involved in a thread at the Seattle Times...

with a guy who insisted that using the term "uppity" about Obama wasn't racist.

[Segami]

3. Dog-whistle politics

" Dog-whistle politics, also known as the use of code words, is a term for a type of political campaigning or speechmaking which employs coded language that appears to mean one thing to the general population but has a different or more specific meaning for a targeted subgroup of the audience. The term is invariably pejorative, and is used to refer both to messages with an intentional subtext, and those where the existence or intent of a secondary meaning is disputed. According to blogger Ian Welsh, When you speak in code(...), most of the time the only people who hear and understand what you just said are the intended group, who have an understanding of the world and a use of words that is not shared by the majority of the population.<1>

The term is an analogy to dog whistles, which are built in such a way that the high-frequency whistle is heard by dogs, but appears silent to human hearing.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics>

[dchill]

4. "Uppity" ...

is always and ONLY racist. If used with any other connotation, it always makes me think racist.

[Segami]

5. I agree. The clever ones resort to other crafty terms that deliver the SAME

underlying message of hate. Those who question such tactics are deemed suffering from delusions and paranoia.

[bluestateguy]

2. My favorite one is: "he's destroying the America I knew as a boy!"

Especially when the person saying those words is someone over 55 years old with a Southern accent.

See? White Southerner, +55 years old, wants to go back to the America he knew as a boy. Get it?

[tulsakatz]

6. they always want to go back.........

...but never forward!

Personally, I know what it was like back then, I don't see the value of going back to some time years ago. Because really, if things were so great back then, why did they change?

[Rhiannon12866]

8. I saw a bumper sticker tonight that sent me over the edge...

It said "CHANGE is all they have LEFT." And had a pic of President Obama with a crossout over his face, like a No Smoking sign. I resisted the urge to rear-end the guy. :grr:

[upi402]

7. when I hear Obama use the term 'entitlements'

I wanna :puke:

[Kablooie]

9. Take our country back = Government run exclusively by and for southern white christians

[Wizard777]

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[JustAMESs]

11. Republicans want Mexico

If the tea party has pushed the idea that the democrats want
to turn the US into a socialist country, there must be a place
that they want to turn us into.  I think this place would be
Mexico.  

The rich live behind walls, no social responsibility, poor
school system, weak federal government, no workers rights,
health care if you have money, only native borns can buy
property there.

So maybe it's time to reverse this idea of socialist rhetoric.
 If we refer to the republicans with senor or senora, Change
all the Johns to Juans, it might catch on. 

[OnionPatch]

12. The weird part is that he hasn't even done anything.

He hasn't raised their taxes like they feared (although they don't seem to realize it). He hasn't stopped fighting the "war on terror" like they said he would, his healthcare plan won't even contain a public option. He hasn't taken their guns. I'd like to know just exactly what they are mad about. When I ask any of them, the only answer I get from them is "the deficit" upon which I ask them where they were when Bush was running up the bulk of it and why weren't they mad at the GOP for blocking Obama's plan to have the banks pay back the TARP money? Then, inevitably, their eyes go blank. It took me a long time to agree that most of them are mainly mad simply because the president is black. But I'm there now. There simply is no other reason for them to be so hysterical.

[Segami]

13. That message is starting to sink in loud and clear.

[katsy]

14. +1

You nailed it. Obama is a fine President for all Americans.

I may get angry at times because of my being somewhat to the left of Ghandi, but President Obama is an honorable man, if not the man of change that I expected.

The gop base should be thrilled with him. And they would be were he not black.