#southernstrategy

[micheleksdare]

Stand or Fall – Accountability

When I first came up with the idea that would become this book, ‘Stand or Fall’, I had one burning question in my mind: how in the hell did we get to this point in time? The point in time in question was the US Presidential Election in November 2016 when a racist demagogue was elected President and just a tad over four years later tried to engineer a coup and take over the country when his scheme…

[azspot]

Crediting the Nixon campaign with the flight of Southern conservatives from the Democratic Party dismisses the role Southerners themselves played in that transformation. In fact, Republicans had very little organizational infrastructure on the ground in the South before 1980, and never quite figured out how to build a persuasive appeal to voters there. Every cynical strategy cooked up in a Washington boardroom withered under local conditions. The flight of the Dixiecrats was ultimately conceived, planned, and executed by Southerners themselves, largely independent of, and sometimes at odds with, existing Republican leadership. It was a move that had less to do with politicos than with pastors.

Pastors, Not Politicians, Turned Dixie Republican

[tpressleyj-blog]

JOUR 4250 Blog Post 1

On September 3, I got to watch a documentary, called White Like Me.  In the documentary, Tim Wise, an anti-racist writer and activist, talked about his upbringing, which took place around numerous black people.  What was interesting was that he was educated in schools where blacks were the predominant race, and how that shaped his views on race today.  Wise talked about the history of racism in the twentieth century, and what the government did to suppress blacks at the time.  Legislation, like the G.I. Bill, overtly excluded blacks, or were strategically written to exclude the vast majority of blacks from the provisions written in them.  Wise says that we are being dishonest if we fail to mention this.

At the time (around the 1960s), white people thought that black people were as free as whites.  It makes me think that even though white people thought this back then, do white people, like me, think the same thing?  I know we have progressed a lot with racial equality since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed, but are blacks really just as free as whites?  I definitely think they are close, but I believe blacks are still oppressed in more subtle ways.  A good example of this is the Southern Strategy, which is a method that politicians (primarily Republicans) have used since the 1970s to appeal to white Southern voters by using racially coded language, like “states’ rights.”

You can say the Southern Strategy is still active in politics today, but has branched out to affect other races, like Latinos; for example, when President Trump says to “build the wall” and to deport undocumented immigrants.  I understand he wants immigrants to go through the legal process to enter the United States, but there are some people who are unable to have the means to do that.  If you couple that with undocumented immigrants who went to the country as toddlers, they could also be in jeopardy of being sent to a country that they probably have no recollection or familiarity of.  The same can be said for an American marrying an undocumented immigrant and starting a family; they would be in jeopardy of being separated. Even though we thought racism was a thing of the past when former President Obama was elected back in 2008, it seems to have cycled back in a more subtle form, and it is our job to decode that coded language.

[tyrras]

Ty flips off Dump every day for 4 years #resist #maga #greennewdeal #massie #omg #wtf #johnkerry #maxinewaters #mnuchin #stophate #endwhitenationalism #candaceowens #tedlieu #southernstrategy #trumpisamoron #unfitforoffice #migrantcaravan #asylumislegal #medicaidforall #climatechangeisreal #fakebordercrisis #lgbtq #transrights #transvisibility #taxtherich #intrumpspresidentiallibrary #trumptaxreturns #wontbeerased #wednesdaywisdom #americafirst #qanon #somanyreasons https://www.instagram.com/p/BwGI6vgBZ1W/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=mecvc00p0x5u

[wqueens7]

Unethical Journalism Sonnet

It’s journalistically unethical

To report Republican Politics

Without The Southern Strategy Racial

(That has brought us this bumper crop of pricks)

tRump has cleaned the floor with Republicans

By singing the proud song of racism

That Mitt only dog-whistled in the wings

(Hatred can only lead to fascism)

& the papers & the networks “of record”

Are failing to do the due diligence

Of connecting-the-dots most untoward

(Which is reportorial negligence)

(Hire Angry Black Reporters to question

& point out how Jim Crow is in session)

[scrmnviking]

Cut out the #cancer #corruption #racism #southernStrategy #neonazi #dixiecrats #politicalCartoon #vote #vote2018 #VoteThemOut #mueller https://www.instagram.com/p/BnCIf_ChbZF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1k78hpm44tdvv

[free-speech-network]

It’s almost as if it was never about citizenship and always about hating nonwhites. But what do I know - I just look at what’s right in front of me #facts #factsoverfeelings #myfactsdontcareaboutyourfeelings #votethemout #leftisbest #diversity #diversityandinclusion #diversityisourstrength #istandwithilhan #strengthindiversity #welcomehomeilhan #thislandisyourland #protectundocumentedpeople #humanrights #migrantrights #familiesbelongtogether #closethecamps #immigrantrights #fucknazis #fuckwhitesupremacy #fuckwhitenationalism #fuckwhitenationalists #fuckracism #republicansareracist #republicansarewhitenationalists #evilempire #southernstrategy #southernswitch #republicanhypocrisy #republicansnowflakes https://www.instagram.com/p/B0MwgCxHkC1/?igshid=1hs4cpyx3dpbe

[laprogressive]

Southern NationJohn Peeler - # #14thamendment #racism #southernstrategy #racism - http://bit.ly/1IHKjC3 http://bit.ly/2VIiY0m

[thegreatdalmuti-blog1]

African-Americans are nearly FIVE TIMES more likely to be arrested for a marijuana charge

[azspot]

[tyrras]

Ty flips off Dump every day for 4 years #resist #maga #greennewdeal #stupidquestionsfromtrump #barrhearing #stophate #endwhitenationalism #candaceowens #tedlieu #southernstrategy #trumpisamoron #unfitforoffice #migrantcaravan #asylumislegal #medicaidforall #climatechangeisreal #fakebordercrisis #lgbtq #transrights #transvisibility #taxtherich #trumptaxreturns #wontbeerased #tuesdaythoughts #americafirst #qanon #somanyreasons https://www.instagram.com/p/BwDQJRwBPFZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1slagki46ewjt

[wqueens7]

The premise of reporters’s a half truth

Enabled by white codependency

The Southern Strategy is enough proof:

America’s Racist Insanity

#headlinepoem #poem @gop #racism #WhiteSupremacy #southernstrategy

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/opinion/trump-wall-immigration.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share via @NYTOpinion

[scrmnviking]

Before I watercolor. The #cancer that needs eliminating. #politicalcartoon #votethemout #dixiecrats #southernstrategy #nazis #mueller #democracy

[azspot]

The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.

John Ehrlichman,

[azspot]

I don’t believe Trump was an accident, because the Republican Party has been seeing and grasping the political power of white supremacy.

Nell Painter

[wqueens7]

Ironies abound when the #WhiteParty

Is caught boldly stealing the election

They’d used to make voting hard for Darky

(Which, of course, was their final intention!)

If you think the @GOP’s not racist

Notice how @realDonaldTrump defeated

The #Republican best & the brightest

With foul words that should have been deleted

Since Nixon’s Racist Southern Strategy

Republicans joined confederacy

Which to Lincoln might have been tragedy

(& appeared to be some sheer lunacy!)

& for my couplet I’ll fin’lly lambast

The corporate media's lack of class

#poem

#Republican #SouthernStrategy #Sonnet