Maybe it’s just me but I don’t think RFK’s statement calling President Obama an Indentured Servant of the Coal Industry is racist.
There are other terms that would have a racial connotation, the servant of, the slave of, the sharecropper of etc…
You might recall in history that Indentured servants were not in fact slaves but once their committed labor was completed would in fact be freemen. One could claim that the post civil war sharecropping systems designed to keep ex-slaves in virtual serfdom might be
But even if he used these terms I don’t think it would be racist. He is criticizing the president using a valid metaphor.
The metaphor isn’t racist, however as Don Surber points out that doesn’t make it correct and it doesn’t prevent RFK from being full of it.
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