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BTL:In 2012 GOP Primary Campaign, "Racist Dog Whistle" Sounds Like a Bullhorn
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Interview with Kevin Alexander Gray, writer and activist, conducted by Scott Harris Interview with Kevin Alexander Gray, writer and activist, conducted by Scott Harris In 2012 GOP Primary Campaign, "Racist Dog Whistle" Sounds Like a Bullhorn |
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Absolute BULLCRAP
Submitted by David Jenkins (not verified) on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 11:08amThe lies continuously repeated by the democrats and progressive morons that Republicans were/are the party of racial hatred show just how dishonest Scott Harris and this Kevin Gray are. Liars extraordinaire.
A little known fact of history involves the heavy opposition to the civil rights movement by several prominent Democrats. Similar historical neglect is given to the important role Republicans played in supporting the civil rights movement. A calculation of 26 major civil rights votes from 1933 through the 1960's civil rights era shows that Republicans favored civil rights in approximately 96% of the votes, whereas the Democrats opposed them in 80% of the votes! These facts are often intentionally overlooked by the left wing Democrats for obvious reasons. In some cases, the Democrats have told flat out lies about their shameful record during the civil rights movement.
It's a little known fact because liars like Harris and Gray cover up the racist history of the democratic party.
But...
Submitted by Rich Gardner on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 3:04pmin about that time period, the Democrats and the Republicans switched place. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act fearing (correctly) that it would deliver Southern Dixiecrat votes to the Republican Party. Nixon's "Southern Strategy" sealed the deal. Ronald Reagan ran a "dogwhistle" campaign based on roundabout suggestions as opposed to a blatantly racist campaign, but there's really no question as to where he stood. So when progressives speak of a racist Republican Party, they're speaking strictly of the post-Nixon era.
On the other hand, when we compare how Clinton was treated during his presidency to how Obama has been treated since, it's pretty clear that the great majority of Republican opposition is simply Republican versus Democrat. Racism plays a role, but it essentially just sharpens and exacerbates the conflict.
Is Gingrich making a racist appeal? He's certainly making an appeal so naked and straightforward that it doesn't deserve to be called a dogwhistle, it's much more straightforward than that.
But, yet again
Submitted by David Jenkins (not verified) on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 12:12pmthe dixiecrats who formed a third party about 1948 with the slogan "segregation forever" did NOT switch parties, in fact they were democrats for all future local and state and national elections. Further I am sure that Martin Luther King Jr. would not have been a republican had the party been racist. He was a republican because the vast majority of republicans supported civil rights, while the vast majority of democrats opposed it. LBJ was dragged screaming and kicking to sign the civil rights act because the democratic party as a whole rejected civil rights for African-Americans.
I agree that racism played a part in Obama's election, whites voted for him because he is black and blacks voted for him because he is black. I don't see racism in people being critical of his policies. To call it racism is nothing but a lie.
I am an old man, been around the block a great many times and have seen all this happen in real time. I fail to see racism in trying to help the poor and people of color become independent and able to stand on their own without being bound to a party that wants to keep them government dependent simply for their vote. That in my opinion is racism at it's very worst. From what I see, democrats don't think that African Americans are capable of taking care of themselves and must be kept dependent on government handouts and policies that are based on skin color and nothing else.
Your sure have a strange view
Submitted by Rich Gardner on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 1:59pmof what constitutes civil rights and the struggle for equality. You're right, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican because that was prior to Nixon's "Southern Strategy." MLK would have recognized how ludicrous it would have been to have been a Republican after Ronald Reagan started his presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi. He would have recognized Reagan's references to the "welfare queen" as being the racist dogwhistle that it was.
I agree that racism is not the whole reason for right-wingers and Republicans to oppose Obama, but to fail to recognize the racist overtones in Newt Gingriches speeches just shows you're just not very attuned to what Gingrich is saying. To say that white progressives voted for Obama entirely because of his race is simply incorrect. Hillary Clinton was in favor of the Iraq War and only later changed her mind. Obama was opposed to it from the very start. There was no contest there. We wanted someone who looked at the evidence and reached the correct conclusion the first time.
Was LBJ "dragged screaming and kicking to sign the civil rights act" or did he truly believe that African-Americans were the equal of whites and that they needed to have the law of the Federal Government weigh in on their side? The 1996 piece by "one Tennesseean" very strongly suggests that the latter view is the correct one.
BTW, ThinkProgress did a nearly four-minute video on the racial politics as they've been practiced by the Republican Party for the last few weeks.
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