Ed Schultz: My Radioactively-Enhanced Sense of Racist Codewords Is Tingling

You know what word is racist?

"Break."

Racist. Ed Schultz says so.

On his show last night, Schultz said that Demint, whom Cain has mentioned as a potential running mate, repeated an "old southern racist term when talking about defeating President Obama during the health care debate." Schultz's example? He quoted Demint saying that "If we are able to stop Obama on this [health care law], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him." For clarity, Schultz repeated the offending line, "It will break him."

Dr. James Peterson, director of Africana studies at Lehigh University, explained that "break" is a racist verb, "a term that was used to destroy, mentally and physically, slaves."

And also, eggs.

Accordingly, the Demint line demonstrated "how dark some of these racial discourses can be in presidential politics."

posted by Ace at 05:15 PM

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