re: #40 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

My favorite is still Newt Gingrich’s comment that Obama has a “Kenyan worldview”.

Which is on one hand amusing, as Kenya was once a British colony that gained its independence.

Of course, he was simply pitching his dog whistle with a reference to the Mau-Mau rebels who rose up and butchered their white overlords…

Careful with putting it as you just did. I know you’re not saying insurgents who murdered women and children were good guys, but others might read it that way and turn your words against you.

Note: It should be remembered that the Kikuyu insurgency (which never called itself the ‘Mau-Mau’) had a legitimate grievance at its root. Yes, the insurgents acted very badly, but the Kikuyu had been the subject of intolerable discrimination by the white dominate colonial legislature, culminating in an admission of non-whites into said legislature than gave Indians and Arabs far more seats per capita than blacks. This, like South Africa’s spending twice as much on an Indian’s education as that spent on a black African, was the government making clear that blacks were the “lowest of the low” in their country. That such attitudes fostered revolt is not surprising.