HRC thesis on Alinsky

[Dill]

(11-16-2016, 12:25 AM)djam Wrote: So what 19th century arguments are currently in politics that make slavery such an important topic, that it some how gets pointed to the right wing as if they had anything to do with it? Give me some examples so I can better understand what you're saying. 

So where does welfare come from? You make it seem like people are mad because they think the government is forcing white people to pay for black people. Thats moronic if thats what you think lol. Nobody thinks that except the left --because they love making everything a color issue. Welfare for all races is paid for by taxes paid by everyone who pays, which is obviously especially working people, of all colors. That includes blacks. Can you prove that wrong? I mean where does the money come from, if not from tax payers? You make it sounds like some right wing conspiracy. Where are people on the right saying black people are paid for by white people?

So DJAM, you want to know more about the history of right-wing racism, as it relates to government programs like welfare.  Let’s start back in 1866, a year after the Civil War, when Congress has set up the Freedman’s Bureau—the first government program using taxpayer money to help black people. Now check out this handbill supporting Democrat Hiester Clymer, running for Governor of PA in 1866.

See that hardworking white taxpayer there chopping wood and the lazy "negro"? This handbill makes two points,  1) good money is being taken from hard-working white folks and given to blacks.  And 2) the result is that “negroes” use their freedom and support for idleness.  White taxpayer money going to blacks is not only unfair but also makes blacks even lazier.

Here is the beginning of political framing of black-white politics which continues to the present. White folks money pays for black laziness.  There is no welfare yet, but when it comes in the 1930s, this frame will be applied to it by right wing conservatives.  In the late 60s, conservatives will begin a more oblique tack, claiming that welfare "hurts" blacks and Democrats who try to help blacks with taxpayer money are the real racists--not the people who DON'T want to help them. Now check my next post.