Who was Obama talking about when he said that? Who was Malcolm X talking about? just answer that question.
Is it at all possible that a quote can be used in more than one context??
When Malcolm X said it..........blacks could not use a drinking fountain or bathroom that was designated for whites. Segregation directly stemmed from white males. Reason to be mad???? Sure.
When Obama said the quote.....it was in a context of the Rovian political trickery that is the predominant way the right wages their campaigns now. How is this even remotely related to race???
I bet you are equally OUTRAGED that Sarah Palin used a quote from a Nazi sympathizer in her convention speech!
" ... In her convention speech ... Sarah Palin quoted an unidentified “writer” who extolled the virtues of small-town America: “We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity.” (9/3/08) The unidentified writer was Westbrook Pegler (1894-1969), the ultraconservative newspaper columnist whose widely syndicated columns (at its peak, 200 newspapers and 12 million readers) targeted the New Deal establishment, labor leaders, intellectuals, homosexuals, Jews, and poets. ... "
Wanna see his racism??? I don't think Joe the Plumber would condone it....
In 1963, less than 3 months after Martin Luther King Jr., delivered his famous “I Have a Dream Speech,” he wrote in a column, “[It is] clearly the bounden duty of all intelligent Americans to proclaim and practice bigotry.”
Still want to continue down this road?
See, we can all play this guilt by association game. We can all play the semantics game.....until the end of time. But, what I would be more concerned with is the fact that your candidate is being left far behind in the polls....with two weeks left.....and you guys don't want to talk about the issues.
Semantics.
[edit on 21-10-2008 by Grafilthy]
By the OP! 
