Even today, racism raises its ugly head. This is one reason that I cannot abide liberals.
Dear white liberals,
Minorities are capable of everything that you are as well as everyone else. You embarrass yourselves.
I wonder how many backwoods White Tennesseans, Kentuckians, Missourians, Louisianan's and Alabamans would actually be able to vote if mandatory ID’s became the standard on Election Day.
I think if it has not been for the GOP racist townsfolk voting there wouldn’t be much of a turnout at the polls. There’s usually so little access to voter precincts in southern states the lowest on the economic ladder is always left out.
Mail in ballots and drop boxes seem to be the better solution when it comes to voting all across this nation - levels the playing field a little. Creates access to our democracy.
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It is outrageously racist to assume that blacks cannot acquire IDs. Yet this is the core of the Dems anti-voting regulation policy tantrum.
It is also a losing issue for them. People see through their bullshit. Let's hope they continue to press it.
Republican strategist, Stuart Stevens' book "It Was All A Lie"...Chapter 1..."Race, the Original Republican Sin"...
"In my first race I had stumbled onto a truth as basic and immutable as the fact that water freezes below thirty-two degrees Fahrenheit: race was the key in which much of American politics and certainly all of southern politics was played. It was really very simple: the Democratic candidate needed 90-plus percent of black votes to win. If a significant portion voted for a third party, the Republicans would win.
It hadn’t always been this way. Before 1964, Republican presidential candidates could expect to get between 30 and 40 percent of the African American vote. .Dwight Eisenhower got 39 percent in 1956. Four years later, Richard Nixon campaigned with Jackie Robinson and won 32 percent of black voters. In 1964, Barry Goldwater opposed the Civil Rights Act, and his black support plummeted to 7 percent. Since 1964, no Republican presidential candidate has broken 17 percent with African American voters, and by 2016 only 3 percent considered themselves Republican.
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What happens if you spend decades focused on appealing to white voters and treating nonwhite voters with, at best, benign neglect? You get good at doing what it takes to appeal to white voters That is the truth that led to what is famously called “the southern strategy.” That is the path that leads you to becoming what the Republican Party now proudly embraces: a white grievance party.
All my adult life in politics, I’ve heard Republicans blame our problems with black voters on “how” we communicated with the “minority community.” The Republican Party has hired an entire cottage industry of black consultants to help candidates, campaigns, and elected officials crack the code of how to talk to African Americans, as if there were some linguistic issue blocking the party from returning to the party of Abraham Lincoln. It’s all nonsense, and the black voters get that it’s nonsense.
The reason African Americans overwhelmingly reject Republicans isn’t based on word choices or phrasing. It’s based on policy. It isn’t ‘how’ Republicans are talking to black voters that results in 90 percent or more of those voters refusing to vote for Republicans. It’s ‘What’ the Republicans are doing, once elected. The fact that the Republican establishment is so invested in the myth that their problems are a matter of language is revealing and self-damning. At the root of it is a deep condescension that they – the de facto White Party of America – know what is best for black folks, and it’s unfortunate these black folks don’t seem to get it but, you know, they are different and we have to talk to them in a language they can understand.
The reality is just the opposite. Since 1964, black voters have heard the Republican Party with exquisite clarity; more important, they have seen what Republicans are doing once in office. It’s summed up nicely n a chapter called “The GOP’s Rise as ‘the White Man’s Party’” in ‘Dog Whistle Politics’ by Ian Haney Lopez: “Where in 1962 both parties were perceived as equally, if tepidly, supportive of civil rights, two years later 60 percent of the public identified Democrats as more likely to pursue fair treatment, versus only 7 percent who so identified the Republican Party.” Barry Goldwater ran on a carefully crafted platform of coded racism that contradicted his previous support of civil rights legislation. As Walter De Vries and Jack Bass wrote in the 1978 “Emerging Coalitions in American Politics”…
“The Republican decision to exploit the race issue and abandon the option of becoming a party of reform manifested itself in the 1961 speech in Atlanta by Barry Goldwater to a gathering of Southern Republicans. “We’re not going to get the Negro vote as a bloc in 1964 and 1968, so we ought to go hunting where the ducks are,” he declared. Goldwater then spelled it out, saying that school integration was “the responsibility of the states. I would not like to see my party assume it is the role of the federal government to enforce integration in the schools.””
The ‘ducks’ were white voters, and in 1964, of the six states Goldwater carried, five were in the old Confederacy (the other being his home state of Arizona).
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The latest example of the 'Original Republican Sin' is their attack on minority voters...since 1964, they haven't changed a bit.
I love you, man, but I fear you've fallen victim to the "Southern Strategists"...even though Democrats are willing to compromise on the 'Voter ID' issue, the GOP continues to enact inane voter suppression rules...(no water for hours long waits to vote...etc., etc.)
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ever noticed that?...does it register at all with you?...feel for you, bro...I'm here for you.
Work environments.This is another example of your drinking the kook aid as you praise her so called achievements.Remember when Gabbard destroyed Harris?Harris is absolutely despised within the democratic regime
The Senate Democrats have nevertheless agreed to require voter identification as part of the Voting Rights bill.
The Republicans refuse to debate the bill.
So, your groundless query is academic.
Link: Facts
.....you don't think that it targets white people whom you privately view as more intelligent.
Your racism disgusts me, and i really mean it.
Also, it is incorrect. Get your facts straight. Minorities are not inferior to you. They can get IDs as well.
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