KANSAS CITY PAPER CALLS MCCAIN A RACIST FOR CALLING OBAMA A SOCIALIST. DID I MISS SOMETHING?

http://www.politicalevidence.com/2008/10/obama-socialist.html
The Kansas City paper accused McCain of being racist because he continues to call Obama a socialist. The paper said that he must be racist because in the 50s a lot of black people were called Socialist. This is incorrect a lot of famous black people like Martin Luther King and Paul Robeson were called Communists not socialists.
The Kansas City article makes no sense to me as most African Americans are conservatives. I do not know anyone who are socialists.
I think the Racist term is being tossed around and we take a chance that real racism gets ignored and made to be trivial which it is not. Obama has been doing this since January and may backfire in ways he and the rest of America had no clue would happen.