A Republican congressman named Jeff Davis (OK, he spells it "Geoff") has had to apologize for referring to Sen. Obama as "that boy."
That sheet-wearing throwback is just three years older than Obama. Anybody who has grown up in this country and who has more than three functioning neurons in their cerebral cortex knows that it is an insult to refer to an adult African-American as "boy."
(You need to go about 6:00 into this clip)
An Obama campaign in the Fall may be the death knell of the current version of the GOP. While Sen. McCain will probably try to run a righteous campaign, I have no doubt that all of the slimy 527 groups on the right will try to run a not-so-subtle racist-tinged effort to attack Obama. It will offend a lot of people, not just African-Americans, and will cement the image of the GOP for a generation as a party of narrow-minded religious bigots who hate African-Americans, Hispanics, immigrants in general, gays, Muslims, and just about everyone else.
The GOP will become the party of the sympathizers of the Klan; a bunch of people who say they love America but who hate 93% of the people who live here.
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Just to play advocate, not so sure it's necessarily racist. True, since the guy's Republican, he's probably somewhat racist in his heart of hearts to begin with. But the word boy itself... I mean, I call people "kid" a lot, even if they are older than me.
It's just a way of saying "I don't think much of you," and maybe that's what the old guy meant.
Not from the South, I see, Ghost.
For a Congressman from Kentucky to use the word in that manner to refer to a black man his own age is no "kid" moment. It is a "get in your place, nigger" moment.
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