Papantonio: They Hate Their Emancipated President

[MrScorpio]

There is something oddly familiar about the rise in racist attacks against President Obama. Some of the best historians in America say that the wealthy landowners and bankers of the South during the time of the Civil War used their power to convince poor southern farmers that they needed to take up arms and defend their way of life. What they were really doing is protecting the investments of the wealthy, while being manipulated through racist fears. The same is true of the attacks against Obama. Mike Papantonio spells it out for us in this week's Pap Attack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOGDhCU7MBc

[s-cubed]

1. It's an old game: let's you and him fight. n/t

[Hekate]

2. Divide and conquer, divide and conquer. Hate the Jews: never mind the Tsar is screwing the poor....

Poor Irish immigrants in the South: hate the black freedmen, they're taking jobs away from you.

Look over there, don't make common cause against your common oppressor--which these days is the megacorporations.

Works every goddam time, doesn't it. :argh:

Hekate

[gateley]

3. And we never seem to get it. Sigh. nt