People of Color must educate themselves and White Americans on the following warning signs regarding John McCain.
To my dear friends:
I ask you a small favor that will make a big difference to me and my efforts to educate the American public.
I’ve recently been on various national and local radio shows. But I need to continue educating Americans throughout the nation on the disturbing attitudes and record of a man who may be the next president of the United States.
Please read below. Research on your own if you wish. The facts are all documented in my book: Gook: John McCain's Racism and Why It Matters.
Please discuss and forward to others the following concerns.
McCain’s most famous quote among Asian Americans. "I hate the gooks," John McCain told America, "I will hate them as long as I live."
John McCain’s decades-long habit of referring to Vietnamese people and individuals as "gooks" in the American mass media. He said that he only applied the racial slur to his captors, which is a lie. He also said that he would stop using the racial slur because he did not want to "feel the fire" for being racist. Tang examines this long history of McCain’s use of this racist term and the fascinating 110 year history of the word "gook."
John McCain’s monetary support of Richard Quinn, a leading white supremacist who has been a top campaign manager for the McCain campaign, as well as a bit of a fashion consultant, dressing McCain volunteers up as Confederate soldiers to garner support among the far right. Quinn is an owner and former chief editor and columnist for The Southern Partisan, a leading journal of Neo-Confederacy and White Supremacy, which seeks a new white-dominated, anti-democratic South. And judging from the journal’s justification of slavery, people of African descent will be at the bottom of their hierarchy.
John McCain’s endorsement of a leading white supremacist for lieutenant governor of Alabama, and McCain’s raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for him on a McCain-organized speaking tour of Alabama. Luckily, this fringe candidate lost the Republican primary in 2006. George Wallace, Jr. is the son of the most racist political figure of post-War American history, Governor George Wallace, Sr.
John McCain’s political support of anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic religious war lobbyists, including the deceptively named Christians United For Israel, Pastor John Hagee, and Pastor Rod Parsley. McCain courted these organizations, helped them raise funds and membership by speaking at their events, called Hagee and Parsley his spiritual advisers in the "City of Satan" and continues to send Joe Lieberman to court their support, even as they lobby for an end-all Christian American war against Iran and Islam, which will bring on the Armageddon.
John McCain’s opposition to the enactment of MLK Day, his opposition to the funding of MLK Day (after it was enacted), and his support for getting rid of MLK Day in Arizona (once it was implemented there).
John McCain’s rallying of Americans around the Confederate flag in an effort to fight off NAACP efforts to bring the Confederate flag down from the top of the South Carolina statehouse. McCain stated that the flag was a "symbol of heritage," which was the code language used by the white supremacy movement. He worked with white supremacist Richard Quinn on this project and stated that he was proud of McCain ancestors who fought for the Confederacy, and who, by the way, also owned 51 slaves.
John McCain’s 1999-2000 promise to the American people (and Larry King) to immediately start three wars once he was elected president. These wars would be in North Korea, Iraq, and Libya. In the 1990s, he sought to put U.S. ground troops in Kosovo and to send aircraft carriers and bombers to North Korea. In the 1980s, he voted for aid to the Khmer Rouge, and he supported death squads in El Salvador.
McCain sent his own money to Central American terrorists and visited illegal "contra" camps when Central American nations had signed a peace accord. Using taxpayer money to do this, he violated the Neutrality Act, but has never been charged. He supported the contras so much that he physically attacked a Nicaraguan government official on that same trip, as witnessed by Republican Senator. Thad Cochran, who said that a McCain presidency sends "chills" up his spine.
McCain has hired lobbyists for the worst terrorists and dictators in the world to help run his presidential campaign and to spruce up his image. These include lobbyists for the Myanmar military junta, Jonas Savimbi, Ferdinand Marcos (now dead), Mohamed Siad Barre, Mobutu Sese Soko, and many others.
McCain and his neocon foreign policy team began the fight for an Iraq War in 1998 and lobbied for an invasion days after 9/11. A study of McCain’s behind-the-scenes work shows that McCain is not Bush II but rather that Bush is McCain II.
Tang demonstrates the connections between racism and war and talks about the possibilities of new wars, led by a Commander in Chief who will likely "gookify" those who will die in those wars.
He has already started the process of "gookification" of people in Iran by singing "bomb, bomb Iran" at rallies and commenting that perhaps the U.S. can "kill them" [people in Iran] through cigarette addiction.
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