{"id":3438,"date":"2008-10-20T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=3438"},"modified":"2010-11-24T02:25:12","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T07:25:12","slug":"colin-powells-endorsement-equated-with-treason-by-cartoonist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/10\/20\/colin-powells-endorsement-equated-with-treason-by-cartoonist\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Powell’s Endorsement of Obama Equated with Treason"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama for President.\u00a0 In the cartoon below, syndicated cartoonist Gordon Campbell compares Powell to Benedicte Arnold, a general in the American Revolutionary War who defected to the British Empire.\u00a0 So, Powell’s endorsement makes him\u00a0a traitor.\u00a0\u00a0 Comments after the image.<\/p>\n

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As Rob Tornoe discusses at Politicker<\/a>, this feeds into the idea that Obama isn’t a real American and, accordingly, neither is Powell.\u00a0 That this is about skin color is revealed by the fact that he put Arnold in blackface. and uses the term “Race Patriot.”\u00a0 The implication is, Powell is endorsing Obama because he’s black and that’s treason (i.e, anti-white and therefore anti-American).<\/p>\n

It also speaks to white privilege and a phenomenon I’ve seen elsewhere during this election.\u00a0 It is white privilege to be able to vote for Obama without your endorsement being attributed to the color of your skin.<\/p>\n

(Found via Jezebel<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama for President.\u00a0 In the cartoon below, syndicated cartoonist Gordon Campbell compares Powell to Benedicte Arnold, a general in the American Revolutionary War who defected to the British Empire.\u00a0 So, Powell’s endorsement makes him\u00a0a traitor.\u00a0\u00a0 Comments after the image. As Rob Tornoe discusses at Politicker, this feeds into the idea […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[253,2125,85,238,285,1760,1757,309],"class_list":["post-3438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-history","tag-immigrationcitizenship","tag-politics","tag-election-2008","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans","tag-warmilitary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29824,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions\/29824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}