Using Literacy as a Racist Code Word
In his speech Thursday to attendees [Tea Party Convention], former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo invoked the loaded pre-civil rights era buzzword, saying that President Barack Obama was elected because “we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country.”
[Source: Raw Story] Wait! I thought a lack of “literacy test” was how Bush, a certified C-grade student got re-elected. But then Tancredo tells me “illiterate” people often vote for law professors. By the way, read the full story to understand how racists like Tancredo use code words like ‘literacy’ to mask their hate. And this is the guy who failed to get a single delegate…at the Republican Convention. He couldn’t even fill the room at a Tea Party Convention.
“Using Literacy as a Racist Code Word” [Short URL: http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=3276] was published Friday, February 5th, 2010 at 10:03 am by Patrix, filed under Politicking, United States, and tagged as civil rights, democracy, politics, racism, United States, voting. Both comments and linkbacks are closed.
