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Not sounding very post-racial out there

Posted October 13th, 2008 at 6:22 PM by Jon Ham

CNN black reporter to black McCain reporter: Why aren’t you supporting Barack? Meanwhile, John James T. Harris is getting death threats from blacks and is being called a race traitor. Has Obama asked his supporters to calm down a bit, as McCain did? Nope.

And civil rights hero, but badly misguided, John Lewis likens John McCain to George Wallace. Mr. Lewis, I knew George Wallace, and John McCain is no George Wallace.

7 Responses to “Not sounding very post-racial out there”

  1. clayj Says:

    Wow. These pro-Obama folks are acting exactly like Nazis.

    You heard me. Nazis.

  2. steveegg Says:

    Hate to correct you, but it’s James T. Harris. I should know because I listen to him when he’s on the air here in Milwaukee.

  3. steveegg Says:

    Clay, and here I thought they were acting like Stalinists. Then again, I can’t really tell the difference.

  4. clayj Says:

    Either way, it’s bad. If Obama wins this election, I expect it will set race relations in this country back a good 50 years. He has amped up the racial aspect of the election in ways I never would have imagined.

  5. Jon Ham Says:

    Sorry, John Harris is an old Air Force buddy that I just got some info about after 40 years. Must have been on my mind.

  6. Jeff A. Taylor Says:

    Ah, and then we have McCain’s Volksmortgage brainstorm and Bush nationalizing the banks. I’d say National Socialism is breaking out all over in many unwelcome ways.

  7. Right Angles » Blog Archive » An example of how racially charged things are getting Says:

    [...] are things really becoming “post-racial” out there? No, not so long as leftists continue to fabricate items of supposed racial [...]

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