Monday, June 15, 2009
They can't help themselves
Racism isn't what Republicans are all about, but it's the glue that keeps them together:
As if it weren't enough that a South Carolina Republican joked on Facebook that Michelle Obama's ancestors were gorillas (he didn't mean it in a pro-evolution kind of way), now we have a South Carolina GOP operative making his own racist Obama joke on Twitter.The last guy, to his credit, at least issued a real apology:JUST HEARD OBAMA IS GOING TO IMPOSE A 40% TAX ON ASPIRIN BECAUSE IT'S WHITE AND IT WORKS.
I realize that my comments were hurtful, wrong and have no place in civil discourse.Whether overtly or not, racism is the fuel that gets these people going, whether it's their position on immigration, welfare, health care, or the supreme court.
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Absolutely. Racism was part and parcel of their infamous "Southern Strategy" that transformed the South from the "Dixie Democrat" region to the solid phalanx of red states that it is now.
Implemented during the Johnson era, it fed on the fear and resentment of the white racists who opposed what the Civil Rights movement was doing to their bastion of Jim Crow supremacy.
Middle class whites deserted the Democratic Party in droves as the Republicans offered them candidates like George Wallace and Lester Maddox. They used thinly veiled code phrases like "urban crime" and "inner-city blight" to mean "them darkies what are causin' a ruckus". They wielded race hatred like a billy club, and by the end of the seventies the South was firmly theirs, where it remains to this day.
The rest of the country, fortunately, has left them behind.
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Implemented during the Johnson era, it fed on the fear and resentment of the white racists who opposed what the Civil Rights movement was doing to their bastion of Jim Crow supremacy.
Middle class whites deserted the Democratic Party in droves as the Republicans offered them candidates like George Wallace and Lester Maddox. They used thinly veiled code phrases like "urban crime" and "inner-city blight" to mean "them darkies what are causin' a ruckus". They wielded race hatred like a billy club, and by the end of the seventies the South was firmly theirs, where it remains to this day.
The rest of the country, fortunately, has left them behind.
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