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Traditional Racism = Racial Identity Politics

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Traditional Racism = Racial Identity Politics

Up until about 50 years ago the KKK was the terrorist arm of the Democrat Party. For its first approximate 140 years Democrats used racism as a weapon for their own political gain. Aside from slavery itself every racist Government policy in all US History was the product of the Democrat party.

Today’s Democrats like to talk about a “Big Switch” where they suddenly became the good guys regarding race, but the fact is they are no better about racism today than they were then.

The Leftist Democrats simply started exploiting racism from the exact opposite direction.

The “Big Switch” was Democrats trading in The KKK for other racial hate groups like Black Lives Matter. Exchanging Klan Leaders for Racial Poverty Pimps like AL Sharpton, Jessie Jackson and Brock Obama.

“I’ll have those Ni**ers voting Democrat for the next 200 years.” This Lyndon B. Johnson quote that was in the context of “We will give Blacks just enough to get their votes but not enough to make a difference” and it’s the fundamental foundation of today’s Democrat Party racial policy.

After being rejected by Democrats the KKK and other Traditional Racists have desperately tried to attach themselves to Republican and the American Right. Although there will always be individual racist in every large group, as a whole Republican/Conservatives/Libertarians have 100% rejected these racist organizations.

“Racists may claim us but we will never claim them” is a sentiment expressed by every modern GOP President from Nixon through Trump.

Leftist like to point to Nixon’s Southern Strategy as proof that the GOP is racist. But the Allegations themselves are the only proof. There is not a single document or quote from the 1968 GOP campaign indicating there were racist motives. It was about attracting Southern Conservatives not Racists.

Richard Nixon was a much stronger and earlier supporter of African American Civil Rights than either John F. Kennedy or Lyndon B. Johnson. In the 1950’s all over the country Richard Nixon was giving anti-segregation speeches. This is long before there was political advantage to doing it.

In 1957 was the first African American Civil Rights Bill attempt. It was under President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon. Both Northern and Southern Democrat lead by Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson defeated it.

It was not until there was political advantage that JFK and LBJ became interested in African American Civil rights. Through political maneuvering such as publicly embracing Marten Luther Kings wife while he was in jail they managed to get a majority of the Black vote in the 1960 election. Pandering and Welfare benefit bribery is how the Democrat party has maintained it since.

Racial Identity Politics has racially divided America more than Traditional Racism could have ever hopped to do. Obama as President was one of the greatest practitioners of Racial Identity Politics. On the day he entered office, when polled 65% of Americans consistently said race relations were good, and 35% said they were bad. When Obama left office those numbers had flipped.

A real Racist doesn’t mind being called “racist.”

Obvious false allegations of racism is the one thing that is arguably just as offensive to an average White person as being called the N-word is to an average Black person, and those false allegations are a favorite current tactic of Leftist Democrats practicing racial identity politics.

On last election night shortly after President Trump was declared the winner, on CNN Van Jones exclaimed the results were a “Whitelash.”…. If there was racial component to how Whites people voted it’s the result of them being angry over Assholes like Van Jones himself constantly lying about them being racist.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...=r1rIDmDWSms&usg=AOvVaw14slKnnwU24gWBK2ii5Eta

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...xons-racism/&usg=AOvVaw1I47MvFBw_jhPaj5bL_sjy

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...=MA9aSvHzEIU&usg=AOvVaw2eA8tyXbMFJ_6KAO2rU4H3
 

Revisionism at it's finest.
 

So you think the old Democrats accused the old Republicans of playing the race card?

How is it possible that all these Southern Conservative White people have not only caught up to their Northern Liberal counterparts when it comes to racial equality, but they've somehow magically surpassed them?

What % of KKK members to you think voted for Trump vs what % voted for Hillary?
 
This Lyndon B. Johnson quote that was in the context of “We will give Blacks just enough to get their votes but not enough to make a difference” and it’s the fundamental foundation of today’s Democrat Party racial policy.

Truly evil. It's destroyed the black family.
 
Truly evil. It's destroyed the black family.

Has it? Because I know plenty of black families that are nowhere near destroyed.

Maybe you meant to say, it hurt some black families.
Yeah right. Now go back to how it's the other side that's racist. :lamo
 

You mean like all but maybe 5k people in the entire united states? The KKK, is such an insignificant group people like you act as if it's on ANY sort of level as black lives matter or ANTIFA.
 
Has it? Because I know plenty of black families that are nowhere near destroyed.

Maybe you meant to say, it hurt some black families.
Yeah right. Now go back to how it's the other side that's racist. :lamo

Isn't it odd how people use very racist ideas to show it's the other side that is racist?
 
The “Big Switch” was Democrats trading in The KKK for other racial hate groups like Black Lives Matter.
One of those groups was advocating for supremecy, the other is arguing for survival.

I think what you're actually thinking of is when LBJ said, "we've lost the south for a generation" after signing the Civil Rights bill. Given how many more whites there are in the country than blacks why would Democrats chose to hurt whites in favor of blacks. Blacks can't win them an election. Why are so many whites be willing to support a political party that's causing them harm in favor of blacks?


Do you now who Richard Nixon is? Maybe try googling his "southern strategy." Ever heard of Strom Thurmond?

“Racists may claim us but we will never claim them” is a sentiment expressed by every modern GOP President from Nixon through Trump.
So on top of not knowing anything about the Southern Strategy, you also missed Trump stating that there was very nice people among the KKK and Neo-Nazis that marched in Charlotesville?

All southern conservatives particularly in that day and age were in fact racists, and Nixon new it. He specifically chose to recruit them because he knew they were angry about the Civil Rights Act signed by LBJ.

It was not until there was political advantage that JFK and LBJ became interested in African American Civil rights.
So you're saying they realized they could get the support of all northern Republicans as well as Democrats by supporting it? Then why did Nixon and the remaining Republicans start opposing it? Were they trying to coax Souther Democrats away from the Democratic party using racism?

On the day he entered office, when polled 65% of Americans consistently said race relations were good, and 35% said they were bad. When Obama left office those numbers had flipped.
Wait, I thought Democrats were just using black people to win elections. Why would they elect one?

Here's reality. Black people knew full well that they still didn't have equality, but they were afraid to stand up for themselves because they didn't think they had enough support in the country as a whole to win. When a Black president was elected they became emboldened and confident. They became more willing to fight because they sensed the tide was turning in their favor.

It's kind of like how the KKK and Nazis are emboldened today. The election of an overt racist like Trump to the white house has emboldened them. They now believe Americans are finally starting to agree with their racist ideas because they voted for a racist.
 
Revisionism at it's finest.

I'm curious.... what do you think was revised? I really do not know.

From what I understand most racist democrats stayed racist until they died and I'm pretty sure there was only 1 Dixiecrat democrat that switched? I could be wrong, but that's what I remember.

It seems that the less racist the south became the more Republican it became, and fiscal conservativism caught on in the south after Goldwater and didn't have a complete turn until Reagan(when states like Georgia switched to republican)

Another interesting fact is that black people have majority voted democrat since the 1930s... black people even voted for the very party that was for the kkk. And it was because of the New Deal policies.... shows people are more into money than principles, something that is just as true today... on both sides
 
You mean like all but maybe 5k people in the entire united states? The KKK, is such an insignificant group people like you act as if it's on ANY sort of level as black lives matter or ANTIFA.

You're comparing a group that wants white dominance with two groups that only against to prevent white dominance. If you eliminate white supremacy, and Neo-nazis then the other two groups you don't like don't need to exist. They go away by default.
 

Not really.


"You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—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 “Nigger, nigger.”

--Lee Atwater, Republican strategist for Nixon and Reagan, and eventual RNC Chairman​


From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that [...] but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.

--Ken Phillips in 1970, a strategist in the Nixon campaign discussing the Nixon campaign strategy​


Leftist like to point to Nixon’s Southern Strategy as proof that the GOP is racist. But the Allegations themselves are the only proof.

"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."

--Ken Mehlman, in 2005 while serving as RNC chair and leader of the RNC, to the NAACP


“For the last 40-plus years we had a ‘Southern Strategy’ that alienated many minority voters by focusing on the white male vote in the South. ”

--Michael Steele, in 2010 while serving as the RNC chair and leader of the RNC.


“Bill Rogers has got — to his credit it’s a decent feeling — but somewhat sort of a blind spot on the black thing because he’s been in New York,” Nixon said. “He says well, ‘They are coming along, and that after all they are going to strengthen our country in the end because they are strong physically and some of them are smart.’ So forth and so on.

“My own view is I think he’s right if you’re talking in terms of 500 years,” he said. “I think it’s wrong if you’re talking in terms of 50 years. What has to happen is they have to be, frankly, inbred. And, you just, that’s the only thing that’s going to do it, Rose.”

--Richard Nixon, a personal recording in 1973 as sitting Republican president.​
 
One of those groups was advocating for supremecy, the other is arguing for survival.
Survival from what? Police? Don't do crimes, and don't resist arrest... you'll be 100% okay unless you won the lottery of bad luck. It's actually more likely for a white man to be shot by a policemen if he resists arrest than a black man. The rate of resist arrest for black people is 10x more often(A study done in LA) but they are only shot around 2x more often(Federal statistics)... that means, if a white person resists arrest he is 5X more likely to be shot than a black person... if we assume that the vast majority of cases of police shootings involve a resist arrest or failure to comply.


It's a real quote overheard by a Air Force one steward of Lyndon speaking to two congressmen.


Do you now who Richard Nixon is? Maybe try googling his "southern strategy." Ever heard of Strom Thurmond?
Most of the Democrat Senators didn't switch.... I believe it was only one....The southern strategy might have been a thing, but there is no evidence that that was the reason people were voting Republican. Most Democrat voters, who were democrat voters before the civil rights act, were still Democrat voters. It was a new younger generation that was starting to vote republican in the South.


So on top of not knowing anything about the Southern Strategy, you also missed Trump stating that there was very nice people among the KKK and Neo-Nazis that marched in Charlotesville?
From what I understand he wasn't talking about the actual Nazi's, but the other attenders at the rally which comprised more people than the Extremist groups that entered it.... That was Trump's point, he very well could be wrong, but that is what he believes.



All southern conservatives particularly in that day and age were in fact racists, and Nixon new it. He specifically chose to recruit them because he knew they were angry about the Civil Rights Act signed by LBJ.
He may as well tried, but it didn't work... it was younger voters who starter to vote republican in the south. And that was, arguably, because the growth of industry and rise of fiscal conservative thought. The South progressively less and less racist and became more and more republican.... if your argument were true, less racism in the region would result in less republican votes... but that isn't what happened. Not until ROnald Reagan became president and the new fiscal conservative republican movement became more pronounced, then states like Georgia and others started to flip republican.

LOOK AT JIMMY CARTERS ELECTION MAP!!! One of the most leftist presidents ever... almost all southern states...
Look at Richard Nixon's election map in his first election!!!






Wait, I thought Democrats were just using black people to win elections. Why would they elect one?
All politicians and all parties want votes more than anything else... they don't give a crap otherwise. They elected a black man because he was a great candidate with a lot of class that fit their establishment policies to the T... regardless to the government plantation they continue to keep blacks in. They've had their vote since the 30s.... New Deal socialist policies, all you have to do is promise money...


Many of the black people of today are starting to not want equality, and instead want privilege. Were black people afraid in the LA riots? They've had a whole caucus, and completely dominant in many city governments/police stations/school systems... it's completely mind boggling for you to think that they were "scared" until Obama came.
 
Well, at least he didn't claim that slaves were the real racists. I suppose there's that....
 

Nice Try, Using the Young Turks as your propaganda source will backfire every time.

Ken Mehlman and Michael Steele were both mistakenly quoting Leftist Democrat propaganda about the Southern Strategy several decades after it happened and before they were in the GOP.

Lee Atwater did not work for Nixon or even the GOP until after Nixon was out of office (a bit of a Lie on your part). What you quoted was a clip Jimmy Carter 4 edited out of context. He was actually talking about the South as time went on becoming less racist.

That's Kevin Phillips not Ken Phillips. Him pointing out that they did not expect to get much of the Black Vote or that some of the White voters in the south during that time were racist years after the fact is not a mission statement.

You will get more reality form Star Wars than Snopes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1rIDmDWSms

Nixon was defiantly an asshole at times but this is closer to what his actual policies were. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzCrkvvDyhQ
 

Na, the "Race Card has always been a Democrat thing" whether played from Traditional Racism or Racial Identity Politics, they always have been and still are the Racist Party.

Todays South is no more racist than any other part of the country. There is perfect coloration between them becoming GOP red and less racist.

There were KKK who endorsed Hillary, they mostly GOP not because they see the GOP as racist to but because Dems pander to the minorities they hate. KKK grand dragon endorses Hillary Clinton for president | Fox News
 
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Has it? Because I know plenty of black families that are nowhere near destroyed.

Maybe you meant to say, it hurt some black families.
Yeah right. Now go back to how it's the other side that's racist. :lamo

According to Thomas Sowell: Leftist Democrat policies have done more harm to the Black family than Jim Crow, Segregation or even Slavery itself.
 
Nice Try, Using the Young Turks as your propaganda source will backfire every time.

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that this non-sequitur of a response is what you're giving me, but goddamn. I didn't give you a single quote from a Young Turks source, so try to keep the conversation in the realm of reality.

Ken Mehlman and Michael Steele were both mistakenly quoting Leftist Democrat propaganda about the Southern Strategy several decades after it happened and before they were in the GOP.

I gave you Ken Mehlman's personal website with the entire transcript of his speech. Go, right now, and show me how I misquoted him. Then again for Steele.


You're correct, I should have stated that he was a leader in the South Carolina Republican party during the Nixon administration, but I was pulling this up from memory. I fail to see how him being a Southern Republican strategist during this time period weakens my claim. At all.

[Kevin Phillips] pointing out that they did not expect to get much of the Black Vote or that some of the White voters in the south during that time were racist years after the fact is not a mission statement.

From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that [...] but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.

--Kevin Phillips in 1970, a strategist in the Nixon campaign discussing the Nixon campaign strategy​

Nixon was elected in 68, and then again in 1972. This quote is from 1970. I'm going to let you suss out why your use of the phase "years after" is factually errant.

You will get more reality form Star Wars than Snopes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1rIDmDWSms

Nixon was defiantly an asshole at times but this is closer to what his actual policies were. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzCrkvvDyhQ

And watching The Phantom Menace would still have more truth than any claim you've made so far.

Yes, Nixon publicly supported black American's rights because at the time his party was courting the black vote. He stopped that in its tracks with the Southern strategy, and he was a massive racist to boot. The nicest thing that you can say is that relative to the Dixiecrats that he was wooing into bed, he was less racist they were.
 
According to Thomas Sowell: Leftist Democrat policies have done more harm to the Black family than Jim Crow, Segregation or even Slavery itself.

So anti discrimination laws in employment, housing and public accommodations were simply tools to destroy the black family?
 
Oh, my. Thanks for sharing your feelings. Maya Angelou was right. Again.
 
Traditional Racism = Racial Identity Politics

Up until about 50 years ago the KKK was the terrorist arm of the Democrat Party.
LMAO I stop reading right there holy dishonest, imbecilic retarded hack post batman

So in 1966 the KKK was the terrorist arm of the democratic party? :lamo

Nobody honest, educated and objective would ever take a post seriously after that line.
 

Might be something to that. Which political party is using, excessively so it seems, identify politics and the politics of intersectionality? Yeah, the political left.
 
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" Up until about 50 years ago the KKK was the terrorist arm of the Democrat Party. For its first approximate 140 years Democrats used racism as a weapon for their own political gain. Aside from slavery itself every racist Government policy in all US History was the product of the Democrat party. "

My friends(Brn2bfree and willsblog) were saying the same thing about the Demos.
How can minorities continue to vote Demo after learning about this ?
There is little to no advancement under a Demo regime. They've seen it under this dude for the last 8.
 
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