06-13-2020, 07:26 PM
(06-13-2020, 07:20 PM)masonbengals fan Wrote: That's painting with a pretty broad brush. I venture to say they are nuts at Dem. events that don't truly represent the idea of the their party just the same. At least I'd hope so with some of the ideas that are floated.
I'm just saying that there is a reason that you see that more at GOP events. There is a history going back to the Southern Strategy for this. It didn't stop in the '60s, either. The Reagan administration's policies regarding drugs disproportionately targeted the black community for a reason, and it isn't because black people use drugs more. Trump's racist dog whistles are well known and well documented, so there isn't any need to get into that.
To be clear, I'm not saying the Democrats are spic and span on this. Bidden is hugely problematic in this conversation, as well. I'm just saying that as a party, the GOP has been courting the racist vote since LBJ signed the CRA in 1964.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
