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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