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One New Fact

In my civil rights roundup today, I referenced an AP analysis which argued that Sarah Palin’s charge that Obama “pals” with terrorists had a “racial subtext”, as well John Cole’s claim that he really did not see it. I noted that while I essentially agree with Cole, I thought that the case raised some interesting hypotheticals worth exploring in a later post.

Read the rest of this post over at The Debate Link.

  • We didn't call campus radicals "terrorists." We didn't call Timothy McVeigh a "terrorist". Like it or not, terrorist is a word that most Americans think of as brown skinned Arabs. Furthermore "palling around" hardly describes being on a nonprofit board with someone.

    It was racist. And it failed.
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