Barack Obama’s answer to the ‘Muslim slur’

One of the big disappointments I’ve had with Barack Obama to date is the way in which he’s addressed the “Muslim question.” Each time it comes up, he trots out his church attendance to prove his Christian bonafides — implicitly endorsing the use of Muslim as a slur. It’s as if he is saying, to echo the McCarthy era response to accusations of communist affiliation, “I am not now, nor have I ever been a Muslim.”

Naomi Klein in The Nation offers the candidate some advice on how to answer the veiled slur without implicitly buying into its use.

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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet