I hate the gooks McCain admits
“I hate the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live,” – John McCain, when
asked about his continued use of the racial slur, “gook.”
John McCain has told us who he is.
John McCain supported the rescinding of Martin Luther King Day.
John McCain keeps on his payroll white supremacists, race-baiting
“swiftboaters” and lobbyists for dictators and terrorists.
John McCain endorsed George Wallace, Jr., a favorite speaker among white
supremacists. He fought to keep the Confederate battle flag flying over South Carolina. He seems
to subscribe to a brand of religion-inspired bellicosity that calls for the U.S. to wage
war for the sake of imparting our values upon humanity.
McCain promised to immediately start wars in North
Korea, Libya,
and Iraq
during his first presidential campaign, and this time around he has promised
new wars to come. He sent his own money to the contra guerillas, and even
visited their illegal war camp. War is the way of John McCain, and racial bias
makes it easy to execute those wars.
Long before George W. Bush became president, McCain planned an invasion of Iraq. He
lobbied for an Iraq
invasion just days after 9/11, and when it came time to convince the American
people, he insisted that the Iraq War would be “easily” won.
The combination of racism and warmongering are perfectly encapsulated in
“gook,” a racist term formed during numerous U.S.
wars, from the invasion of the Philippines
(1898-1902) to the occupation of Haiti in 1920, to the Korean and
Vietnam Wars. John McCain used this anti-Asian slur freely and casually until
he was forced to for fear of sabotaging his own presidential ambitions.
The portrait of John McCain painted in Gook is far more disturbing
than any racial epithet. A central thesis of Gook: war fertilizes racism, and
racism justifies wars and the killing of civilians. This dynamic thrives within
the most dangerous leaders of the world. Is John McCain one of them?
Irwin A. Tang holds an M.A. in Asian Studies. He is the co-author of Asian
Texans and When Invisible Children Sing.
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Press Release - July 4, 2008
Gook: John McCain’s Racism and Why It Matters focuses on
McCain’s disturbing attitudes toward race and war.