Capitol Hill Blue Forums Thread Like Summary - The horrid face of a Racist Republican Party that threatens America

Are Republicans racist? Or course they are, especially those who support the most-racist President in history that voters rejected in 2020.

By DOUG THOMPSON
March 7, 2022

American Vice President Kamala Harris marched with civil rights leaders and proud citizens of Selma, Ala. Sunday to remember a tragic, horrible day in this nation’s racist history.

That day, more than 50 years ago, and while it is historic that a woman of color is part of the presidency and a mixed-race man represented the United States for eight years in this century, the racism remains in a bitterly-divided land called America.

“Today, we stand on this bridge at a different time,” Harris said in a speech before the gathered crowd. “We again, however, find ourselves caught in between. Between injustice and justice. Between disappointment and determination. Still in a fight to form a more perfect union. And nowhere is that more clear than when it comes to the ongoing fight to secure the freedom to vote.”

While Harris marched in Selma, President Joe Biden notes that the progress of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that came out of the aftermath of Selma has been weakened “by the brute force” of racists and bigots in Congress and state legislatures and “insidious court decisions.”

“In Selma, the blood of John Lewis and so many other courageous Americans sanctified a noble struggle. We are determined to honor that legacy by passing legislation to protect the right to vote and uphold the integrity of our elections,” Biden said in a statement.

Biden’s party has been trying to update the landmark law with stronger measures to make it more convenient to vote, but such attempts were stonewalled by the hardcore racists who dominate the GOP.

Working in Washington for 23 years, I saw the racist undercurrent that has been controlling the Republican Party for the too-long bubble to the surface in 1994 when they recaptured leadership of Congress. Legislation limiting the progress of civil rights, along with other racist screeds, became laws of the land.

When Barack Obama was elected president, we saw Republicans eagerly embrace the white supremacy and racism of the Tea Party extremists and the rise of illegal militias and hate groups that included GOP members of Congress.

The election of Donald Trump, often identified as an “American example of Hitler” provided America with a president who embraced those who wanted minorities from our shores. Hate crimes based on social and religious discrimination rose to record levels while the Trump-controlled Justice Department looked the other way.

Trump convinced brain-dead Republicans that they were victims of attempts to drive the “white race into a minority.”

“The message,” Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher told CNN, “is to pour as much gasoline on the fire of White grievance and victimhood as possible to energize and mobilize their vote.”

The news network concludes:

• Trump’s rise has been both cause and effect of that swelling grievance. The so-called “Southern strategy,” from which Republicans harvested support from racial conservatives after Democrats nationally embraced the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s, proved a formative event in the party’s evolution.
  
  Trump cast restraint aside, opening his winning 2016 presidential campaign by smearing Mexican immigrants as criminals. He kept it up through his losing 2020 contest, when he warned that fair housing laws would destroy suburban neighborhoods, blasted the removal of Confederate symbols and assailed racial justice protesters in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.
  
  The GOP rank and file has followed suit. With the Census Bureau projecting that demographic change will make America a majority-minority nation within a generation, most White Republicans now claim the status of victim.

What Republican racism did was turn America itself into a racist nation with decreasing hope that it can ever be salvaged.

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These very same groups, including a future POTUS, demanded to see the birth certificate of Barack Obama - a request that had never been asked of a sitting president, prior.

Now, Fox News' resident white nationalist and pro-Putin fan, Tucker Carlson, is demanding that the LSAT scores of ol' Joe's SCOTUS nominee. THAT has never been requested of a SCOTUS nominee.

What is it about Barack Obama and Ketanji Jackson that Republicans don't like? Any ideas?

You are, absolutely, right! I should have said it! Thank you! (always seems to take two to tango)

I also think that both parties are losing membership is exactly because both sides refuse to give an inch because each is absolutely sure they are right. Its actually very strange. In India they have a solution. When their government gets in the situation we have, right now (neither side will move and inch and nothing is happening) the Indians (dot) surround the building that holds those who are stuck and nobody gets in or out until there is a solution.

I should add that I saw it happen once but its been a very long time and I'm no longer sure it still works but, I think, if you locked the doors to the congress and forced them to talk and do their jobs that might work. Nothing else has.

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I recently attempted to enter the Musk Foundation Carbon Reduction X-Prize (I failed to complete the submission by the deadline - it was the most effed up proposal process I have ever seen). One of the sections was focused on environmental justice, which my company and proposal have a great handle on. The community where my shop is happens to be very poor and the vast majority of the residents are "mixed race" Hispanics, commonly referred to as Mexicans (though most of that demographic are not from Mexico, unless you consider the pre-U.S. annexation period of this neck of the woods.

Being a professional grant whore, I pulled up the Census data to validate our community worthiness for benevolent Socialist treatment and was stunned to see that the race breakdown was 85% white with a smattering of blacks and Native Americans. WHAT?

I found a different demographic evaluation of the area and it said this:

White Hispanic: 42%
Non-White Hispanic: 33%

That told me a couple of things: 1) many "mixed race" Hispanics self report as White, I think for obvious reasons; 2) the Census categorizes Hispanics by language and not race.

The fact is, the Hispanic brown people around here are descended primarily from MesoAmerican Indians (Olmec, Maya, Zapotec, Teotihuacan, Mixtec, and Mexica (or Aztec)), who were "conquered" by European Hispanics, whose culture dominated the MesoAmerican cultures. It's just plain weird that they became "Hispanics" because the Spanish language was forced on them. Of course there was some interbreeding between the invaders and the natives, but it didn't create a large class of more privileged "mixed race" folks.

It's also weird that their once more advanced cultures have been starved into becoming a commonly regarded lower class of people.

In any event, I used the second demographic breakdown in the EJ narrative...

sorry i'm late to the debate.

I have viewed the Republican base for many years now as racist/bigots, because ... well I live among them. I know what they think.

The problem in discussing this issue is the conflation of the base and the elected officials. By and large the base near me in a non-scientific poll are bigots bordering on 80% - 90%. I see the elected class as less so in the public domain.

So what I concluded was in order for the elected class to assuage their base, they have been on a concerted campaign of denial of racism/bigotry for many years. Their campaign has worked. Almost no one in the base says or thinks they are racist or a bigot.

I thought in the 60's racism would be mitigated within 3 generations, but little did I know people with influence would continue to prop it up. Republicans at this point can not afford to correct the record, because the base now has extorted them with their vote.

It's easy to see any of them saying .... I'm not a racist but my supporters are.

What does that even mean??? I was the getaway driver ... not the bank robber.