Zone1 "Religion and Ethics" - Racism in American Politics: How to win the vote of racists without sounding racist.

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First, I'd like to thank fellow members here @ usmb (and others), for being counted on to bring this issue to our attention: post #3 - Meow!

I want to thank them all so much for this opportunity to set the record straight. They open more doors than they know.

JIm Crow laws? White Southern, Christian, Conservatives of old. That is not today's Democratic Party.

We all know they, the White Southern, Christian, Conservatives of old (almost every single one), flew into the welcoming arms of a GOP that used a Southern Strategy. The ethics of it all is -- at a loss for the right rem(s) here. But why I include "Christians" in White Southern, Christian, Conservatives should be no mystery to anyone who is aware of the arguments used to keep the black people down, down South.

Exclusive: Lee Atwater’s Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy​

The forty-two-minute recording, acquired by James Carter IV, confirms Atwater’s incendiary remarks and places them in context.

The late, legendarily brutal campaign consultant Lee Atwater explains how Republicans can win the vote of racists without sounding racist themselves:

You start out in 1954 by saying, “******, ******, ******.” By 1968 you can’t say “******”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “******, ******.”

****** = "N-word"
Harvey LeRoy "Lee" Atwater

 

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"In 2005, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman formally apologized to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for exploiting racial polarization to win elections and for ignoring the black vote."

RNC Chief to Say It Was 'Wrong' to Exploit Racial Conflict for Votes​

Ken Mehlman, the Republican National Committee chairman, this morning will tell the NAACP national convention in Milwaukee that it was "wrong."

"By the '70s and into the '80s and '90s, the Democratic Party solidified its gains in the African American community, and we Republicans did not effectively reach out," Mehlman says in his prepared text. "Some Republicans gave up on winning the African American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong."

Mehlman, a Baltimore native who managed President Bush's reelection campaign, goes on to discuss current overtures to minorities, calling it "not healthy for the country for our political parties to be so racially polarized." The party lists century-old outreach efforts in a new feature on its Web site, GOP.com, which was relaunched yesterday with new interactive features and a history section called "Lincoln's Legacy."

An Empty Apology​

By Bob Herbert
July 18, 2005

One of President Bush's surrogates went before the N.A.A.C.P. last week and apologized for the Republican Party's reprehensible, decades-long Southern strategy.

The surrogate, Ken Mehlman, is chairman of the Republican National Committee. Perhaps he meant well. But his words were worse than meaningless. They were insulting. The G.O.P.'s Southern strategy, racist at its core, still lives.

"Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization," said Mr. Mehlman. "I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong."

He made his remarks during an appearance in Milwaukee at the annual convention of the N.A.A.C.P., which has a relationship with President Bush reminiscent of the Hatfields' relationship with the McCoys. In a chilling act of political intimidation, the Internal Revenue Service responded to criticism of Mr. Bush by the N.A.A.C.P.'s chairman by launching an investigation of the group's tax-exempt status.

 

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The ethics of it all. I suggest this sort of unethical behavior allowed today's GOP to turn MAGA without blinking an eye.

 

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Whitey is just pissed that Kamala kicked aside another white racist white guy as President in one Joe Biden.

How many more brothers of color can you bring into the country to vote in brown skinned Kamala?

 

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Whitey is just pissed that Kamala kicked aside another white racist white guy as President in one Joe Biden.

How many more brothers of color can you bring into the country to vote in brown skinned Kamala?​

 

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Race an issue?

Donald Trump said he didn't know Kamala Harris was black until...

Fact Check: Kamala Harris has long identified as Black, contrary to Trump claim​

 

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JIm Crow laws? White Southern, Christian, Conservatives of old. That is not today's Democratic Party.

It wasn't yesterday's Democratic Party, either.

Jim Crow, black codes, and segregation were the sole purview of southern Democrats, today's Republicans.

 

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It wasn't yesterday's Democratic Party, either.

Jim Crow, black codes, and segregation were the sole purview of southern Democrats, today's Republicans.

To be more factual in a wider context, it were the mostly Southern leaders of the Democratic party (seniority system they played). The leadership was stacked with those White Southern, Christian, Conservative racists, and they played at re-election with themes the people who feared black power understood.