simmi
Posts: 38
Joined: Aug. 2007
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re: racism
Colin Powell on our generation's new xenophobia:
| Quote | I'm also troubled by, not what Sen. McCain says, but what members of the party say, and it is permitted to be said such things as: "Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim." Well, the correct answer is: he is not a Muslim. He's a Christian. He's always been a Christian.
But the really right answer is: What if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is: No, that's not America. Is there something wrong with some 7-year-old Muslim-American kid believing he or she can be President?
Yet I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion: he's a Muslim, and he might be associated with terrorists. This is not the way we should be doing it in America. |
I was actually inspired when I saw Powell's clip on "Meet the Press:"
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008....?em
What's happened to the party of Eisenhower, of Nelson Rockefeller, of Colin Powell?
(short answer: Richard Nixon & identity politics [/my2c])
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