Comments on: Closing in the ranks (short) http://www.blackinformant.com/uncategorized/closing-in-the-ranks-short Engaging the culture by challenging the status quo Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:52:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Keith Harris http://www.blackinformant.com/uncategorized/closing-in-the-ranks-short/comment-page-1#comment-836 Keith Harris Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:10:35 +0000 http://blackinformant.com/2005/06/21/closing-in-the-ranks-short/#comment-836 Chris, Can you give me some documented history on the "Southern Strategy exercisd by Republicans in the late 1960’s-mid 1970′s". You have some strong and fair arguments but I have not found any proof of a GOP strategy of any kind. I wanted to do some research on when Blacks stopped supporting the GOP and I have been unable to find out why. Help!! Chris,

Can you give me some documented history on the “Southern Strategy exercisd by Republicans in the late 1960’s-mid 1970′s”. You have some strong and fair arguments but I have not found any proof of a GOP strategy of any kind. I wanted to do some research on when Blacks stopped supporting the GOP and I have been unable to find out why. Help!!

]]> By: Chris Gill http://www.blackinformant.com/uncategorized/closing-in-the-ranks-short/comment-page-1#comment-835 Chris Gill Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:53:42 +0000 http://blackinformant.com/2005/06/21/closing-in-the-ranks-short/#comment-835 Much of the negative perception of Republicans that is fostered within the black community comes from older blacks such as Hutchinson. They witnessed first hand the raced based negative politics of the Southern Strategy exercisd by Republicans in the late 1960's-mid 1970'. This encouraged whites formerly alligned with the Democratic party to move over into the Republican party. A great deal of vitriol and bad blood was created during this period, and continues today. Unfortunately for Mr. Hutchinson, of whom I think is one of the great cultural intellectuals...of any race, his arguments boils down to an exercise of moral equivalence between the two cases of racist activity of the two parties. It needs to be understood in the context of history, that most white politicians were at worst flatout racist (KKK members Byrd (Democrat), David Duke (Republican)), or sympathetic with the racist attitudes of their constituency on the political level, while friends with black on a personal level (Strom "I like to dip in the Chocolate" Thurmond, George Wallace). I would like to note that, excluding Duke, all were Democrats during their "Hail Segregation' heyday. While Byrd has "renounced" his Klan days, he still harbors racist sentiments as witnessed in an interview with Tony Snow in 2001, where he stated "I know some white niggers" twice in the span of 10 seconds. Then he stated " he will use that word to describe how peope act". No other network covered the story of how a Senator actually used a racial ephithet in the 21st century, and was not raked over the coals. No outrage from the CBC, no Jesse, no Al, no jeri curl wearing Michael Dyson (although judging from his usage of the word, he probaly objected to Byrd using a "black" term on whites. Kind of like copyright infringement). While Lott lavished praise on a vegetative Thurmond, he was villified as a racist. Byrd gets a pass not just on the KKK membership,(he was the Grand Klegle..not sure what that is, but it sounds more than the guy responsible for bringing the beer), he gets a pass for using a racist slur. I believe Mr. Hutchinson is not being fair...or intellectually honest at this point. And neither is the black elite, and the others who feign outrage when the toe of some Republicans brush the line of racial insensitivity. This in light of the fact that the Democrats are so comfortable taking the black vote for granted, they feel no need to apologize for the outright racist behavior of liberals. Much of the negative perception of Republicans that is fostered within the black community comes from older blacks such as Hutchinson. They witnessed first hand the raced based negative politics of the Southern Strategy exercisd by Republicans in the late 1960′s-mid 1970′. This encouraged whites formerly alligned with the Democratic party to move over into the Republican party. A great deal of vitriol and bad blood was created during this period, and continues today.

Unfortunately for Mr. Hutchinson, of whom I think is one of the great cultural intellectuals…of any race, his arguments boils down to an exercise of moral equivalence between the two cases of racist activity of the two parties. It needs to be understood in the context of history, that most white politicians were at worst flatout racist (KKK members Byrd (Democrat), David Duke (Republican)), or sympathetic with the racist attitudes of their constituency on the political level, while friends with black on a personal level (Strom “I like to dip in the Chocolate” Thurmond, George Wallace). I would like to note that, excluding Duke, all were Democrats during their “Hail Segregation’ heyday.

While Byrd has “renounced” his Klan days, he still harbors racist sentiments as witnessed in an interview with Tony Snow in 2001, where he stated “I know some white niggers” twice in the span of 10 seconds. Then he stated ” he will use that word to describe how peope act”. No other network covered the story of how a Senator actually used a racial ephithet in the 21st century, and was not raked over the coals. No outrage from the CBC, no Jesse, no Al, no jeri curl wearing Michael Dyson (although judging from his usage of the word, he probaly objected to Byrd using a “black” term on whites. Kind of like copyright infringement).

While Lott lavished praise on a vegetative Thurmond, he was villified as a racist. Byrd gets a pass not just on the KKK membership,(he was the Grand Klegle..not sure what that is, but it sounds more than the guy responsible for bringing the beer), he gets a pass for using a racist slur. I believe Mr. Hutchinson is not being fair…or intellectually honest at this point. And neither is the black elite, and the others who feign outrage when the toe of some Republicans brush the line of racial insensitivity. This in light of the fact that the Democrats are so comfortable taking the black vote for granted, they feel no need to apologize for the outright racist behavior of liberals.

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