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Edited on Tue Sep-13-05 01:24 PM by hawkowl88
Divide and conquer. This has been going on since the emancipation. Back when the robber barons needed to break a strike they would ship in non-english speaking immigrants. Then when they needed to break the strike again they would ship in southern blacks. Mind you, the robber barons never told these people they would be strike breakers, they just promised jobs in the mills, slaughter houses, mines, etc. Why do you think the inner cities are populated with african americans? This is where a lot of racial hatred stems from in the North. The republican robber barons are masters at playing off groups of people against each other.
However, race baiting is not the only tool at the conservative disposal. There new tool seems to be religion baiting. Using pastors and churches illegally as a political organizing tools. This is where the nightmarish danger of conservative justices such as Roberts and his ilk are at their most frightening. Rehnquist led the move to erasing the dividing line between church and state. Bush's justices are hell bent on finishing it.
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