Romney's "Dog Whistles" Are Clear to White Racists Online
The political scatology which is Mitt Romney's willful and racist lie that President Obama wants to end welfare reform, and give free money to all those lazy black and brown human parasites that want to live off of white people, has attracted some flies.
The media spins its wheels, debating the role of racial "dog whistle" politics by Republicans in their hostility and opposition to the country's first black president--as opposed to calling out Mitt Romney for the racist liar that he has proven himself to be.
The central element of dog whistle politics is that the cues are so subtle and coded that only the target audience will pick up on a given speaker's real intent. Ostensibly, these secret codes and signals give a politician plausible deniability, where in Romney's case (and the Republican Party in mass) racism can be denied, and then the assertion flipped in a game of political Aikido that plays on white victimology and spurious claims of "reverse racism."
In theory, those candidates that deploy racial dog whistles can win on both ends of the deal: they get to communicate their onerous message; this same candidate then mines white racial resentment for electoral gain when they are critiqued for their racism.
Romney and his defenders will continue to deny the obvious racial invective in the "Barack Obama is a Welfare King" ad. However, there is one group of people who hear Romney's racial appeals crystal clear and in stereo.
As I discussed in this post, I do a daily survey of some of the more prominent (and public) white supremacists websites. The views expressed in the white nationalist online community are the racial id of contemporary populist conservatism in the Age of Obama. As such, these spaces are a telling barometer for the backstage and frontstage racism of the New Right and the Tea Party GOP.
Here is a featured essay on Mitt Romney's candidacy and his welfare queen meme from one of the more "respectable" White Nationalist Neo-Confederate websites (I will not directly link to it, but you can do a simple online search to confirm these quotes):
Mitt Romney was in a Chicago suburb today speaking to White voters blasting the Obama campaign for dismantling welfare reform...White supremacists clearly understand Mitt Romney's evolving campaign strategy, his appeal for a not insignificant part of the white voting public, and how Red State America--fearful of the country's changing demographics and submerged in the Right-wing echo chamber--could see him as protection from "oppression" by black and brown folks and the country's first black president.So Mitt Romney is speaking to our people, promoting popular issues with subtle and not so subtle racial themes.
Again, I note that Mitt Romney is a racial “pussy-footer” – very similar to George HW Bush Sr (US President 1988-92). Pussy-footers are the most common American racial renegades. Pussy-footers look and act White.
They marry White, they don’t have any real hatred towards our/their White American people. But, they rarely if ever defend our people and in live or die racial conflicts, racially charged political campaigns they pussy-foot around; they try to pretend that there aren’t any racial conflicts and any racial problems are some misunderstanding. Pussy-footers like to be liked and they tend to agree with whoever is in the room with them.
So today, please pass the word on to all of your contacts that you approve of the Romney campaign’s new direction:
Targeting our people, our voters – “hunting where the ducks are”. The Romney campaign is no longer pandering to NW voters who will never vote for White Republicans. Instead, the Romney campaign is connecting with the voters he/we need to win and the Romney campaign is standing up for the legitimate rights of our people.
There is no super conspiracy controlling the Romney campaign. Mitt Romney doesn’t hate our people. He doesn’t want to destroy the Whites in the South. He’s not trying to bring back Black Reconstruction or incite Blacks to riot and murder in you town.
There is no reason to hate Mitt Romney because he is rich, was the governor of a Northeastern state or hate all the beautiful White people associated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Mitt Romney is a solid White guy with a large, very beautiful White family.
But he is a…..Pussy-footer. Please understand the situation and act accordingly.
Mitt Romney's race baiting is a dangerous political game. Romney's use of white identity politics pays dividends in that it helps him look like a "legitimate" and "real" Conservative to the Tea Party base. Mitt Romney's lying and racism will also attract an element of the Right that could become more of a liability than an asset.
At this moment in the 2012 campaign, Mitt Romney is Mickey Mouse in Fantasia, playing with elements that he can not fully control. He best be careful or the politics of hate could blow up in his face.
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This is accurate as far as I can see.
Anyone who wants the truth is welcome to visit my blog, where it's been sitting unread for years now.
I've also explained this, again, over and over- the White hater Authoritarians don't understand no one cares about them. Because they would be consumed with revenge, and in fact are at any slight (Cavalier DNA), they assume others would do what they would- immediately lash out at their "enemy" the first chance they got.
They are so self-absorbed they just can't accept no one, no one, NO ONE, gives a rat's ass about them are their heinous backwards ways.
Auwe (Alas)
What about the beliefs of Romney, where one had several wives and are not -- by the conservative ministers standards -- of the real
Christian faith. Well, it may be interesting to know that Romney had ... how many great grandfathers? If he wants to get down in the dirt, he's playing to lose ...
Rated.
Nice thing about Obama's lies, broken promises, and jealous attacks--you don't have to be a dog to catch them.
The Mormon Church may not have expressed regret over its past policies regarding blacks, but Romney has. He is on record as saying that the day the Church changed its policy was one of the happiest and most emotional days of his life. Nothing he has ever done raises any rational doubt about his sincerity.
In 2005, RNC Chair Ken Mehlman spoke to the NAACP, apologizing for the GOP's long history of racist politics:
"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 as Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong."
Of course, that was 2005 and the politics of the moment prompted it. Nothing changed.
Romney may indeed feel regret for Mormon racism, but he sure doesn't reject race-baiting politics. That's because he has no firm set of principles and his history of extreme reversals proves that.
And Gordo, who should know better, but, well, just wants to ignore the facts again, who to believe- Gordo or Lee Atwater (google his quotes on dog whistles) yes, who to believe, Gordo or 3 RNC biggies??? (Atwater, Mehlman, and Steele who for sure know the deal!!!)
"Could you help a brother out? No more national conventions with 36 people of color in the room." Michael Steele
Yes, I believe these 3 national figures over angry, or simply credulous bloggers. Have a look at mine, filled with FACTS not insecure and cowardly revisionism.
Romney, McCain, and every vice-presidential candidate possess a quality that Obama has shown himself to lack--class. This is the real "class" that Obama is waging war on. You can't lie, refuse to acknowledge error, claim credit for the unearned, get blown in the Ovum Office, and present one image on teleprompter and quite another in candid moments and have any claim to be called classy.
What's really interesting though, is Gordon the Victim's use of racist conservative dog whistles in an article about racist conservative dog whistles. Such as ...
"Obama lacks class".
(Meaning, Obama's just a dirty, ignorant black.)
"get blown in the Ovum (sic) Office".
(Meaning, the dirty black can't keep it in his pants.)
"the teleprompter president".
(Meaning, the dumb black needs to read prepared remarks only.)
Gordon Osmond has set a record! Three racist dog whistles in an article about racist dog whistles!
Also, Romney and McCain did not take the high road. Romney doesn't use Rev. Wright because it's not effective, and is old news. McCain stopped the overt racism on his campaign because it got out of control, with his Republican base actually yelling out "kill him (Obama)" at campaign rallies. That's documented on video, and is irrefutable. The hate had to be stopped by McCain, lest he be blamed for a murder attempt on Obama's life, not unlike the nut who tried to kill Gabrielle Giffords.
But you go on with your white victim status Gordon Osmond, if it makes you feel better. The rest of the world will stick with the facts.
"Black Racism"
This would take too long. Way too long. But I'll give it the beginnings of a try, without invective, which is a pretty good trick.
The first thing to understand is that Black and White in the United States are not different versions of the same thing, they're basically different things entirely. Yeah, they're both races, but in the United States that's functionally irrelevant outside of ease of identification. For most of American history, Black meant one ethnic group. Now it means one big ethnic group plus a much smaller one (of Carribean origins/descent as opposed to of American slave descent). White doesn't mean that; White means this enormous umbrella of ethnic groups so large that White has no ethnic significance at all. Black says you who are, White says more about who you're not. It makes more sense to compare Black to Italian than to White, at least here in the US.
The relationship between the overwhelming majority and a minority is not a symmetrical relationship, particularly when the majority controls everything and owns almost everything. If these two groups can be said to be unhappy with each other, in one direction that's mainly bigotry and in the other it's mainly legitimate grievances. As a White I wish it weren't so, but that has been the case and it continues to be the case. Yes, there's a Black President, but that doesn't mean there's equality. There are still all sorts of differences in access to all sorts of things, like justice and credit. We can pretend all we want that Affirmative Action has swung the pendulum too far the other way but the facts indicate otherwise. There are still massive differences in median income, median education, sentencing for equivalent crimes with equivalent criminal records, access to credit, etc. Right now it's being made worse in many red states with these governments spending millions in voter ID legislation and enforcement, at a time when the Republican Trial Lawyers Association (I may have the name wrong but that's who they are) has calculated that over the past ten years the states collectively have averaged under One Case Apiece annually in alleged voter fraud. This isn't about correcting an essentially nonexistent crime, it's about disenfranchising minorities because those minorities tend to vote for the other party.
Rev. Wright said terrible things because he witnessed and experienced enough to drive him to say terrible things. We're too quick to vilify what he said without being anywhere quick enough to vilify what drove him to say it. Obama, in the meantime, pretends that differences in access all come down to class when they don't - those differences are still profound when we control for class, leaving race as making way too big a difference. Apparently Obama didn't listen to all of Wright's sermons closely enough.
We still hear all sorts of corrosive myths. I'll give you an interesting fact about one of them: Per capita, Black people are less likely to use illegal drugs than White people are. Not sell, use. Selling is based on not having any other available ways to make a decent living when you come from a neighborhood where the schools suck because education funding is mainly local and there isn't a local tax base capable of supporting schools decently. So, if White people are statistically more likely to use illegal drugs, shouldn't the police be profiling Whites for vehicular drug searches?
This is not a two-way street. One group has overwhelmingly victimized the other group. That doesn't mean every White person is guilty (I've posted on this and don't want to repeat myself too much), but it does mean that Black anger is a lot less based on simple racism than White anger is.
Again, this is way too long a topic for a simple comment, even one of my interminable comments, but the contention that Black complaints should be viewed through the same lens as White complaints is crap. They aren't comparable. At all.
i few white racists stayed home last time, a lot of black americans decided voting might not be useless, last time.
normal service has returned, and o might lose, because he's brown, and it turns out he's not the messiah, he's just a brown politician.
are there a lot of americans who are racists of various kind and intensity? way more than half, if treating afpakis as carnival targets counts as racism.
This is a point that has eluded every person in America who has ever used the term "reverse racism" or who has accused a person of color of being a "racist." As Kosh so effectively explains, it is not about simply turning things around, changing targets/victims. In order to make that possible, both races would have had to start in this country on equal footing. I think we can all agree that didn't happen.
Black people can be prejudiced, bigoted, mistaken, angry, anti-white, militant, belligerent and wrong...but they can NEVER legitimately be called "racist." Why? Because African Americans have never been a majority, never enjoyed institutionalized acceptance in American corporations, governments and households, and never held the fate and future of white Americans in the palms of their collective hands.
I am really tired of Gordon Osmond and the people who think like he does calling Chauncey a "racist." They can disagree with his brilliant posts until the cows come home, but they will never successfully prove him a racist.
Instead of call Chauncey any kinds of names, how about tackling his premise? Argue intelligently why you do not think White Racist Dog Whistles actually exist.
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Rev Wright lives in a million dollar home, he has always lived remarkably well considering those that he "administeres to"
If you want to change the world you don't excuse a-holes who play the poverty card to the top of the food chain. Jesse Jackson,Al Sharpton and their ilk shake down self- loathing whities and continue the victimization mentality.
Chauncey plays the same cards, -it sadly sells here but for people who truly treat people equally it is seen as B.S. and regressive.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/06/22/election-fraud-california-union-official-voted-in-wi-recall
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/yes_vote_fraud_real_B5KsHFqcgUjYJCivnI6IuN
Ask Norm Coleman if there is voter Fraud.
I have no hooray left. Neither candidate appeals to me. If you believe those made up cut and paste campaign videos and I'll sell you a bridge to nowhere in Alaska.
Weren't there always these dog whistles? Don't all speech writers have to study dog whistles 101? " Hard to believe anyone anymore. Head is spinning.
The Romneys have the gall to ask for donations in order to get a chance to ride in a bus with them. Please..spare me. I'd rather go grocery shopping. I live in NH for Gods sake...they call here day and night. Obama is choking the internet with the same damned propaganda over and over again. He'll probably show up at Joe's meat market tomorrow. Never know who will be downtown.
Equality...can't happen. People won't allow it. It is not in our nature.
And that is a sorry fact. People focus on differences. It is how they justify their own plight. It is quite simple really. If I blame you for my situation, I feel better. Isn't that the way of all flesh? (Sorry Mr.Butler).
What if Hillary Clinton ran against Condi Rice? My Lord that is something I'd love to see. I can just see the headlines. The bloggers would have a field day with that.
It is natural not racist to want to be with people with whom you have common experiences and interests. If the left succeeds in their quest for the nations wealth to be equaly distributed blacks would live with blacks for the most part,chinese with chinese..........and so on. It is not prejudice or racist, it just is .........
Why do so many lefties hang out here? Are you elitist snobs or do you just like to hang with your fellow Utopians?
On to less obscure subjects, it's true that the sickening appeal to racism is as blatant now as it was in the days of Willie Horton. I take heart at the idea that this could blow up in Romney's face. I'm hoping that enough white people get it and are revolted by it, including those who have sworn not to vote because it turned out that Obama was not the Second Coming, or whatever they expected from a politician without unified party support. If you don't love Obama, detesting Romney should motivate you to vote.
The voter fraud stats came from the Daily Show.
The reason lefties show up here is because there's a correlation, though certainly not an overwhelming one, between liberalism and degree of education. More educated groups are statistically more likely to be more liberal groups. Conservatives would probably say that that's where the term "ivory tower" came from.
October 13, 1858
During Lincoln-Douglas debates, U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas (D-IL) states: “I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever”; Douglas became Democratic Party’s 1860 presidential nominee
April 16, 1862
Republican President Lincoln signs bill abolishing slavery in District of Columbia; in Congress, 99% of Republicans vote yes, 83% of Democrats vote no
July 17, 1862
Over unanimous Democrat opposition, Republican Congress passes Confiscation Act stating that slaves of the Confederacy “shall be forever free”
January 31, 1865
13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. House with unanimous Republican support, intense Democrat opposition
April 8, 1865
13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. Senate with 100% Republican support, 63% Democrat opposition
November 22, 1865
Republicans denounce Democrat legislature of Mississippi for enacting “black codes,” which institutionalized racial discrimination
February 5, 1866
U.S. Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (R-PA) introduces legislation, successfully opposed by Democrat President Andrew Johnson, to implement “40 acres and a mule” relief by distributing land to former slaves
April 9, 1866
Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Johnson’s veto; Civil Rights Act of 1866, conferring rights of citizenship on African-Americans, becomes law
May 10, 1866
U.S. House passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the laws to all citizens; 100% of Democrats vote no
June 8, 1866
U.S. Senate passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the law to all citizens; 94% of Republicans vote yes and 100% of Democrats vote no
January 8, 1867
Republicans override Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of law granting voting rights to African-Americans in D.C.
July 19, 1867
Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of legislation protecting voting rights of African-Americans
March 30, 1868
Republicans begin impeachment trial of Democrat President Andrew Johnson, who declared: “This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government of white men”
September 12, 1868
Civil rights activist Tunis Campbell and 24 other African-Americans in Georgia Senate, each one a Republican, expelled by Democrat majority; would later be reinstated by Republican Congress
October 7, 1868
Republicans denounce Democratic Party’s national campaign theme: “This is a white man’s country: Let white men rule”
October 22, 1868
While campaigning for re-election, Republican U.S. Rep. James Hinds (R-AR) is assassinated by Democrat terrorists who organized as the Ku Klux Klan
December 10, 1869
Republican Gov. John Campbell of Wyoming Territory signs FIRST-in-nation law granting women right to vote and to hold public office
February 3, 1870
After passing House with 98% Republican support and 97% Democrat opposition, Republicans’ 15th Amendment is ratified, granting vote to all Americans regardless of race
May 31, 1870
President U.S. Grant signs Republicans’ Enforcement Act, providing stiff penalties for depriving any American’s civil rights
June 22, 1870
Republican Congress creates U.S. Department of Justice, to safeguard the civil rights of African-Americans against Democrats in the South
September 6, 1870
Women vote in Wyoming, in FIRST election after women’s suffrage signed into law by Republican Gov. John Campbell
February 28, 1871
Republican Congress passes Enforcement Act providing federal protection for African-American voters
April 20, 1871
Republican Congress enacts the Ku Klux Klan Act, outlawing Democratic Party-affiliated terrorist groups which oppressed African-Americans
October 10, 1871
Following warnings by Philadelphia Democrats against black voting, African-American Republican civil rights activist Octavius Catto murdered by Democratic Party operative; his military funeral was attended by thousands
October 18, 1871
After violence against Republicans in South Carolina, President Ulysses Grant deploys U.S. troops to combat Democrat terrorists who formed the Ku Klux Klan
November 18, 1872
Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting, after boasting to Elizabeth Cady Stanton that she voted for “the Republican ticket, straight”
January 17, 1874
Armed Democrats seize Texas state government, ending Republican efforts to racially integrate government
September 14, 1874
Democrat white supremacists seize Louisiana statehouse in attempt to overthrow racially-integrated administration of Republican Governor William Kellogg; 27 killed
March 1, 1875
Civil Rights Act of 1875, guaranteeing access to public accommodations without regard to race, signed by Republican President U.S. Grant; passed with 92% Republican support over 100% Democrat opposition
January 10, 1878
U.S. Senator Aaron Sargent (R-CA) introduces Susan B. Anthony amendment for women’s suffrage; Democrat-controlled Senate defeated it 4 times before election of Republican House and Senate guaranteed its approval in 1919. Republicans foil Democratic efforts to keep women in the kitchen, where they belong
February 8, 1894
Democrat Congress and Democrat President Grover Cleveland join to repeal Republicans’ Enforcement Act, which had enabled African-Americans to vote
January 15, 1901
Republican Booker T. Washington protests Alabama Democratic Party’s refusal to permit voting by African-Americans
May 29, 1902
Virginia Democrats implement new state constitution, condemned by Republicans as illegal, reducing African-American voter registration by 86%
February 12, 1909
On 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, African-American Republicans and women’s suffragists Ida Wells and Mary Terrell co-found the NAACP
May 21, 1919
Republican House passes constitutional amendment granting women the vote with 85% of Republicans in favor, but only 54% of Democrats; in Senate, 80% of Republicans would vote yes, but almost half of Democrats no August 18, 1920
Republican-authored 19th Amendment, giving women the vote, becomes part of Constitution; 26 of the 36 states to ratify had Republican-controlled legislatures
January 26, 1922
House passes bill authored by U.S. Rep. Leonidas Dyer (R-MO) making lynching a federal crime; Senate Democrats block it with filibuster
June 2, 1924
Republican President Calvin Coolidge signs bill passed by Republican Congress granting U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans
October 3, 1924
Republicans denounce three-time Democrat presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan for defending the Ku Klux Klan at 1924 Democratic National Convention
June 12, 1929
First Lady Lou Hoover invites wife of U.S. Rep. Oscar De Priest (R-IL), an African-American, to tea at the White House, sparking protests by Democrats across the country
August 17, 1937
Republicans organize opposition to former Ku Klux Klansman and Democrat U.S. Senator Hugo Black, appointed to U.S. Supreme Court by FDR; his Klan background was hidden until after confirmation
June 24, 1940
Republican Party platform calls for integration of the armed forces; for the balance of his terms in office, FDR refuses to order it
August 8, 1945
Republicans condemn Harry Truman’s surprise use of the atomic bomb in Japan. The whining and criticism goes on for years. It begins two days after the Hiroshima bombing, when former Republican President Herbert Hoover writes to a friend that “The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.”
September 30, 1953
Earl Warren, California’s three-term Republican Governor and 1948 Republican vice presidential nominee, nominated to be Chief Justice; wrote landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education
November 25, 1955
Eisenhower administration bans racial segregation of interstate bus travel
March 12, 1956
Ninety-seven Democrats in Congress condemn Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and pledge to continue segregation
June 5, 1956
Republican federal judge Frank Johnson rules in favor of Rosa Parks in decision striking down “blacks in the back of the bus” law
November 6, 1956
African-American civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy vote for Republican Dwight Eisenhower for President
September 9, 1957
President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republican Party’s 1957 Civil Rights Act
September 24, 1957
Sparking criticism from Democrats such as Senators John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower deploys the 82nd Airborne Division to Little Rock, AR to force Democrat Governor Orval Faubus to integrate public schools
May 6, 1960
Republican President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republicans’ Civil Rights Act of 1960, overcoming 125-hour, around-the-clock filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats
May 2, 1963
Republicans condemn Democrat sheriff of Birmingham, AL for arresting over 2,000 African-American schoolchildren marching for their civil rights
September 29, 1963
Gov. George Wallace (D-AL) defies order by U.S. District Judge Frank Johnson, appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower, to integrate Tuskegee High School
June 9, 1964
Republicans condemn 14-hour filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act led by U.S. Senator and former Ku Klux Klansman Robert Byrd (D-WV), who served in the Senate until his death in 2010. At Byrd’s funeral, former Democrat President Bill Clinton said, “He once had a fleeting association with the Ku Klux Klan, what does that mean? I’ll tell you what it means. He was a country boy from the hills and hollows from West Virginia. He was trying to get elected. And maybe he did something he shouldn’t have done come and he spent the rest of his life making it up. And that’s what a good person does. There are no perfect people. There are certainly no perfect politicians.”
June 10, 1964
Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) criticizes Democrat filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act, calls on Democrats to stop opposing racial equality. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was introduced and approved by a staggering majority of Republicans in the Senate. The Act was opposed by most southern Democrat senators, several of whom were proud segregationists—one of them being Al Gore Sr. Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson relied on Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen, the Republican leader from Illinois, to get the Act passed.
August 4, 1965
Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) overcomes Democrat attempts to block 1965 Voting Rights Act; 94% of Senate Republicans vote for landmark civil right legislation, while 27% of Democrats oppose. Voting Rights Act of 1965, abolishing literacy tests and other measures devised by Democrats to prevent African-Americans from voting, signed into law; higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats vote in favor
February 19, 1976
Republican President Gerald Ford formally rescinds Democrat President Franklin Roosevelt’s notorious Executive Order authorizing internment of over 120,000 Japanese-Americans during WWII
September 15, 1981
Republican President Ronald Reagan establishes the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, to increase African-American participation in federal education programs
June 29, 1982
Republican President Ronald Reagan signs 25-year extension of 1965 Voting Rights Act
August 10, 1988
Republican President Ronald Reagan signs Civil Liberties Act of 1988, compensating Japanese-Americans for deprivation of civil rights and property during World War II internment ordered by FDR
November 21, 1991
Republican President George H. W. Bush signs Civil Rights Act of 1991 to strengthen federal civil rights legislation
August 20, 1996
Bill authored by U.S. Rep. Susan Molinari (R-NY) to prohibit racial discrimination in adoptions, part of Republicans’ Contract With America, becomes law
And let’s not forget the words of liberal icon Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood and someone Hillary Clinton has said is one of her heroes. Sanger said, “We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population….”
I can stop now.
Agree many liberals are educated –some overly. Ivory Tower also is the perception and that they look down upon the great unwashed with a "They Need us ,especially those that don't agree with us"
The only actions on this list that matter are the ones from Reagan and later, and there are reasons the overwhelming majority of Black Americans have voted Democratic since at least the 1960's.
As late as the 1970's, the Republican party had a liberal wing. I'm a lifelong liberal but I voted in my first election (1972) for a Republican Congressman because he was more liberal than his Democratic challenger. Guys like Nelson Rockefeller still had a home in the Republican party then. Even George Romney, Mitt's father, may have fit that mold, which Mitt certainly doesn't. Those people were all driven out of the party; the few that were left certainly took a lot of heat in the 1980's, particularly during the Gingrich era. That trend has been accellerating to the point where, by current Republican standards, Reagan would have been considered liberal. He raised taxes, more than once. Nixon would probably have been considered a Socialist. He founded the EPA.
Can you post the source?
In the link you did post to Gingrich, Gingrich specifically says
the law included language that the requirements could NOT be changed. Is he lying?
And why change a law that was passed under rep. congress and Dem. president. Why Obama using executive order to change the law?
@joseph. why not. it is late. stop playing.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2012_01/for_no_reason_santorum_singled034464.php
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/01/rick-santorum-%E2%80%9Ci-don%E2%80%99t-want-to-make-black-people%E2%80%99s-lives-better-by-giving-them-someone-else%E2%80%99s-money%E2%80%9D-video/
all of us "blah" people just want money from white folks--just like Romney told the NAACP.
Your list is hilarious. You don't understand the difference between Republican Party and Conservative Movement. You didn't mention a SINGLE Conservative except those 2 piddling Reagan entries.
The Conservatives despised Eisenhower, for example, for not reversing the New Deal and adding the Dept of Education. There were conservatives before the 50's, but the race-baiting Movement Conservatives didn't emerge until the 50s, their first political effort being trying to gain southern support by playing race politics after Brown v. Board of Education.
Inga, you get the award for Greatest Pointless Effort by Some Goofball Who Didn't Understand the Assignment.
You must be a Conservative. Nobody knows less about conservatism than Conservatives.
Nixon wasn't a Conservative. The National Review even refused to endorse him. Inga jest don' git it.
''Black people can be prejudiced, bigoted, mistaken, angry, anti-white, militant, belligerent and wrong...but they can NEVER legitimately be called "racist." Why? Because African Americans have never been a majority............
"I, I, I, ain't gunna play Sun City"-----So whitey wasn't racist in South Africa,Nambia and Rhodesia?
This is the what I find
"That’s what the bottom line is. I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.”
From Santorum.
Where is the Romney quote saying
"those lazy black and brown human parasites"?
Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) overcomes Democrat attempts to block 1965 Voting Rights Act; 94% of Senate Republicans vote for landmark civil right legislation, while 27% of Democrats oppose. Voting Rights Act of 1965, abolishing literacy tests and other measures devised by Democrats to prevent African-Americans from voting, signed into law; higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats vote in favor.
All this happened after Brown v. Board of Education. So, who was playing race card?
obama can only hold onto the white house by portraying romney as the arch villian of modern america - a 1%er, job destroying, dog whistle racist.
no discussion of economic policy, job creation, deficits, or educational reform needed. romney is a rich white guy - the election begins and ends there.
and it's working too!
You don't know what you're talking about, but at least you're editing it down to far fewer words. The Movement Conservatives used to know the difference between themselves and The Right and Republicans in general. Now that The Right has subverted and supplanted conservatism, and conservatism has become synonymous with Republican, some people get confused and think as you do--that it has always been that way.
And based on that false perception that no amount of truth can overcome, you repeat your error. Dirksen was not a Movement Conservative. People like Dirksen would be vilified in today's GOP.
When liberal and moderate Republicans supported the Civil Rights Act, Southern Democratic conservatives opposed it. That's who was "playing the race card." Now they're Republican conservatives.
You know nothing about American history or politics, outside of your own pretty much typical example of the ignorance that defines "conservatism" nowadays.
With respect despite you rarely giving it to those that oppose you, Dirksen was overall a fairly conservative fellow who supported the Taft wing of the party over Eisenhower and Dewey before him.
He pushed through the Act and was awarded by the NAACP for his perseverance
Republicans had a pretty solid record that has been white washed (insert joke) there was a reason Jackie Robinson and James Meredith felt at home there. Being against the Great Society does not make you racist. Trillions of dollars, good intentions and a pool of blood as a result is not a coincidence.
Dems who voted against the Civil Rights Act
Robert Byrd, senator from West Virginia
- J. William Fulbright, Arkansas senator and political mentor of Bill Clinton
- Albert Gore Sr., Tennessee senator, father and political mentor of Al Gore. Gore Jr. has been known to lie about his father's opposition to the Civil Rights Act.
- Sam Ervin, North Carolina senator of Watergate hearings fame
- Richard Russell, famed Georgia senator and later President Pro Tempore
I respect everyone as human beings. However, I don't have respect for absurdities. If I did, I might fall into a pattern of absurd arguments.
Your comment is a milder version of the mistake Inga repeats. Dirksen was not a conservative of pre-or-post New Deal varieties, and support of Taft doesn't alter that. Dirksen voted for New Deal programs, which instantly disqualifies him as a conservative, "movement" or otherwise. He was a moderate.
Until you understand the difference between The Right, conservatism, Movement Conservatism and Republican, you will continue your conflation error.
Your comment does not dispute what I said, nor does it have even a remote relevance to the history of conservative movement race-baiting, even in a pro-con context, if a con context existed.
While I hold a reverent respect for your humanity, your comment is a garbled spillage of irrelevant gobbledegook, unworthy of consideration or respect. All you have accomplished is to become the 3rd Inga pointless comment.
I don't have the time or inclination to educate you on a subject you comment on regardless of not knowing what you're talking about, but I will provide a summary for the brain-enabled.
The following are true statements.
1. Movement Conservatism began in the 1950s.
2. It was not affiliated with either Party.
3. Its first effort at gaining popular support was to demagogue racist resentment in support of state's rights.
4. Its organizers attempted to run a racism-based candidate in both parties and, when that predictably came up short, to form a 3rd party, hoping to deny the GOP or Dems a majority vote win.
Reagan was the first Movement Conservative President. He kicked off his campaign with a speech in Philadelphia, Mississippi. That is the city where 3 civil rights workers were murdered in 1964 (and where my Uncle worked the Freedom Summer black voter registration drive). The subject of his racist-aimed speech was State's Rights. While the act was much more than a subtle support of racism, he did stop short of lightin' a cross.
The Conservative Movement was built on racism. Fact of history, fact of life. This fact does not make you racist. Not knowing it and commenting regardless, and "as if" you're educating others, does make you an idiot.
That's as fine a surrender as can be expected. I was able to read between the tears and saw somebody who knows he failed but can't admit it, just as he can't refute my facts. You waste words and time.
Matthew 7:6
"... do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces."
And your "list" reminds me of the fool who told me that the fact that Ray Charles had the number one record of the year in the early sixties proves that there's no racism in this country, because "a lot of whites had to buy it for it to be number one."
As for the "reverse racism" comments, I'm not sure I really understand this term. To me, racism has always meant categorizing people based on physical characteristics, not on individual characteristics. I've always assumed that anyone can do that no matter what race they themselves belong to. My immediate reaction to hearing the words "reverse racism" is that the speaker cannot be very bright.
Socialists of my acquaintance tell me that Barack Obama will go down in history as one of the great Republican presidents because of his close ties with Wall Street finance, his many concessions to the petroleum industry, his imperial wars abroad and his general unwillingness to undertake the radical reforms this country needs.
He's continued locking up poor people of color for drug offenses that are largely ignored in the white suburbs, a practice that has come to be called "The New Jim Crow" from a best selling book of that name. He's deporting immigrants at an astonishing rate and continued the practice of breaking up families.
He's a great advocate of privatizing public schools along with his Education Secretary Arne Duncan. That allows private school operators to set up restricted admission charter schools that favor white gentrification of urban neighborhoods over the educational needs of impoverished neighborhoods of color.
The list goes on...
I mean Jeez Louise, what do white conservatives want? A Confederate flag flying over the White House? A return to white-only water fountains? Making Dixie our national anthem?
Back in the 1960's a journalist named Samuel Yette wrote a book called "The Choice: The Issue Of Black Survival In America" in which he raised the possibility of genocide against the USA's black population. I haven't thought about that book in years, but the latest racial hysteria coming from the Republican Party got me thinking about it again. Maybe it's time to revisit it.