Tuesday Night Video – Rachel Maddow on Republican Racism
August 7, 2012 10 Comments
The modern Republican Party is built on a bedrock of racism. Most political observers know about the Southern Strategy. In 1964, Barry Goldwater and the Republican Party began using “states’ rights” as a code word for their anti-black and anti-voting rights strategy to win the Southern states away from the Democratic Party. Nearly 50 years later, the Republican Party is still attacking voter rights in their attempts to suppress minority voting.
In 1980, Ronald Reagan kick-started his presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi, with a speech about states’ rights. Philadelphia is where Civil Rights activists Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman were killed in 1964. Reagan also created imaginary Welfare Queens to infuriate white voters with this idea of black women somehow getting a free ride in this country. In 1988, the infamous Willie Horton ad made fear of black criminals a mainstay of George Herbert Walker Bush’s presidential campaign.
Now Mitt Romney is using “obvious dog whistle racism” to attack Barack Obama, lying that Obama is dismantling Welfare to Work, and we should not be surprised. Melissa Harris-Perry joins Rachel Maddow to discuss this and rightfully includes Bill Clinton in the history of this Republican-created racist strategy. For the Republicans, racism has been a mainstay of their presidential campaigns for the past half century. When might it ever stop?
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Hahahaha. Liberals making race an issue. Whats new?
Conservatives, laughing off charges of racism in the Americas since the 1600s!
Abraham Lincoln…Republican. Nuff said.
I didn’t say Republicans, I said conservatives. Lincoln was a liberal compared to Douglas.
If you want a partial list of Republican Party racism, see my original post.
Your comment is worth a re-read of your article and a proper response which I shall do later this eve when I have the time. I appreciate your enthusiasm.
Feel free to respond whenever you have the time. Not that blogging is unimportant, but I certainly understand that most of us have a bunch of other things we have to do first.
Thank you for the shout out!
Ametia- 3 Chics Politico
I’m pleased to make your acquaintance! And I very much like your posts.
I just started reading Krugman’s _Conscience of a Liberal_. It really provides some in-depth analysis of everything you mention in this post. It is sad that the bigotry continues.
I really should read that book as well. One of the things I love about Krugman is his willingness to address the moral and ethical aspects of our economy. Along with his economic acumen, of course.