“The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”

Socialist Party presidential candidate Norman Thomas


Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Playing the race card


NY state senator Eric Adams(left) was whining about the New York fish wrappers calling for himself and John Sampson(right) to be thrown out of office....

From NYDailyNews -- “When you look at the press, when you look at The Times and look at The Daily News, they’re talking about ‘throw the bums out’ and the dysfunction in Albany because we’re not functioning the way they used to do business. This is about removing men of color from power. And that’s not going to happen."

Too often, black politicians, who've gotten used to the trappings of power to the point that their constituents no longer have confidence in their representation, resort to the racism charge against their critics regardless of the merits or substance of the criticism. This won't win them any votes. No voter appreciates being labelled a racist just for disagreeing with a black politician. Moreover, it dilutes the charge of racism when there actually is some racism to be exposed. Nobody believes it exists as often as these guys claim, because it doesn't. Black politicians only do themselves and other black politicians a disservice by throwing the racism around so cavalierly.

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