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Rep. Cohen Says “Community Organizer” Is Being Used As A Racial Code Word

By Kleinheider Posted on September 11, 2008 at 9:24 pm

Sean Braisted provides some commentary:

Oh, and it also seemed to be that Cohen was tacitly agreeing with Matthews that “community organizer” is code for black urbanite. I think most people, especially rural and suburban voters, just don’t know what the hell a community organizer is, and the Republicans think its funny. And really, that is not exactly their fault, because “community organizer” is such a broad term that just about anyone who gathers more than one person together to get something accomplished is a “community organizer”. The head of the PTO or a Cub Scout leader could be defined as such.

Obama was a faith-based community organizer who acted as the secular go between for a variety of predominately African-American churches in Chicago. He did various projects, including voter registration and issues based activism, and it wouldn’t be all that inaccurate to call him a political activist.

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8 Responses to “Rep. Cohen Says “Community Organizer” Is Being Used As A Racial Code Word”

  1. jon writes
    September 12th, 2008 5:19 pm

    Obama is a Patriot and Islam is a religion of Peace. If you disagree, we DO NOT need you or your vote. Step aside. This is OUR time! Obama for the world baby!

  2. andrew writes
    September 13th, 2008 1:46 pm

    Heres some food for Rep.Cohen..on his Super Fly lord Obama……why dont you research his most lordly Obamas housing policies in Chicago where by he sold out his poor black iner city supporters who had to live in city housing by letting his con artist buddy Mr.Rezco contract to up keep them at a cost of millions to the taxpayers did nothing and later the Fed. govt. had to condem the sewer filled ,filthy housing after freddy mac had been bilked by his “buds’ dont trust me look it uoon boston.com under Obamas failed housing legacy….no its not your time we have no time for heep iner city con men like your Obama who wants to be like Super Fly” and get over……….rather lets give him the “SHAFT” on November 4th. remember its got to stink like a dead fish if the liberal Boston Globe reported it!!!

  3. dapatriot writes
    September 14th, 2008 7:36 pm

    Rep. Cohen is mistaken. There is no racial notion being attached to the term ‘community organizer’. It is not code for ‘black’. It is, however, code for ‘marxist’.

  4. Ben writes
    September 15th, 2008 1:33 pm

    Community Organizer is a code word for Marxist. See cofessions of a Community Organizer in Detroit: http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2003w43/msg00312.htm

  5. Lexi writes
    September 18th, 2008 11:36 pm

    I can’t wait to hear when Matthews interviews Cohen about Kernell and the Palin Email hacking.

    How are the FBI visits going?

  6. Roscoe writes
    November 27th, 2008 8:30 am

    Good news! Thanks!,

  7. Bonnie writes
    November 27th, 2008 10:21 am

    Keep a good work man!,

  8. Carson writes
    November 27th, 2008 12:06 pm

    Excellent site!,

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