Racism is alive, well, and thriving in America

Anyone who thinks the Civil War ended in 1865 is brain dead. That war continued through the Civil Rights era of the 1960s and it hasn’t ended yet. It’s the bread and butter of the Republican Party. They call it their “Southern Strategy.” I call it pure evil. And the Republicans have managed to spread their "Southern Strategy" nationwide.

We have a (1/2) black man in the White House. The most recent troops on the front lines of bigotry are the teabaggers. They shout about taxes, social security, Medicare, “taking back America,” and much more. But don’t buy the crap they’re selling.

For the majority of them, they’re real problem is with what they call the “socialist, liberal, elitist, wine-sipping, Muslim, non-American black man” in the White House.

Limbaugh, Beck, Palin, Fox, and every other wingnut entity owned by big business, has been selling this crap for the past two years. And far too many imbeciles are buying it.

Understand this shit for what it is. It’s always about the wingnuts trying to gain and keep power, wealth and control. But this time around, they’ve been given what they consider to be a gift. Racism.

Anyone who doesn’t understand that this is the main ingredient in their bowl of poison either agrees with them, or just doesn’t “get it” and never will.

The Republican party has turned "hating a black man in the White House" into some kind of obscene national pastime.

Its impact was simply more pervasive there.

Let's consider PA ... I grew up there. And I've heard people say that PA is Philly on one side, Pittsburgh on the other , and Alabama in between. Having grown up there ... its an accurate description.

Socialist
Communist
Nazi
Mao
Stalin
Hitler
Muslim
Terrorist
Kenyan
Inner City thug
Elitist

They are using every alternative attack word they can come up with ... except of course, for the one word they know they can't use.

It seems the teabaggers feel safety in numbers.

and the beginnings of the civil war, it was always there.

Some northern states barred black people from even entering the state. They didn't like slavery because it competed with white labor. They didn't give two shits about black people. Racism was alive and well throughout the united states, just in different forms.

Some things the republican party believes in today can be traced back if. You google "free soil" you can find some of it.

Some parts of the country grew, others just stayed and wallowed in being backwards and had to be dragged forward ( The old south ) and still have to be dragged forward at a snails pace.

I say we just go on without them.

That's contrary to what my husband, a former army brat, told me. He said one reason the South gets a lot of attention on racism is that integration began in the South years ahead of the North. He lived in a few northern states, also a western state, in his younger days, & he said he saw just as much, if not more, instances of prejudice.

Haven't you seen the images of the the police with hoses and dogs?

The president nationalized the state guard to integrate a college. Alabama I believe it was.

I should have added another thought I had in regard to my post: we'll never know how well integration might have been handled if it had been introduced in the North.

School segregation in the North was also a major issue.<33> In Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, towns near the Mason-Dixon line enforced school segregation, despite state laws outlawing the practice of it.<33> Indiana also required school segregation by state law.<33> During the 1940s, however, NAACP lawsuits quickly depleted segregation from the Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey southern areas.<33> In 1949, Indiana officially repealed its school segregation law as well.<33> The most common form of segregation in the northern states came from anti-miscegenation laws.<22>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_United_States#In_the_North

And your information also says that integration in the North was most common through anti-miscegenation laws. I was referring more to the school environment rather than inter-racial marriages.

The most common form of segregation in the northern states came from anti-miscegenation laws.<22>

Meaning that a few schools were segregated, a few places, but they gave up the battle quickly when they saw the writing on the wall. The most common form was anti-miscegenation laws, which were in most of the states.

in the first sentence, last paragraph?

Most northern schools gave up after 54. There was still segregation in the south until 65, some small spots even farther down

Good map:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Educational_separation_in_the_US_prior_to_Brown_Map.svg

but thanks.

Your husband stated that the south started before the north.

I've shown you both.

The north desegregated before the south, with minor problems. Or, said the same way with a different word, the north integrated before the south, with minor problems.

The south was still segregated in schools into the late 50's, and it took the national guard to stop it. Other places in the south were still segregated into the 60's, and that took the civil rights act to stop. After it's passage, Dixiecrats went republican, and the south did too.

But please understand that I agree with all the points made in this thread about the ignorance & hatred that is shown toward Obama.

I only intended to point out that this attitude isn't limited to the South. The Dixiecrats are those who had problems with integration being government-forced. (I'm a life-long Democrat, so please don't misconstrue that I'm sympathetic to their ignorance.) The North wasn't government-forced, so we'll never know how northerners would have reacted.

The Civil War comments will live on & on here at DU, partly because of the valid resentment of George Bush from "Texas", but I value my husband's judgment, he's got substance, & I will gladly stick with the opinion he gave to me.

Good talking with you, Confusious. :)

the state guard to integrate a university:

The University of Alabama
The University of Mississippi ("Ole Miss")

It's about how the Republican Party has been so successful at spreading the disease of racism country wide. It's a Party that's selling the only thing they have to sell. Hatred.

The parts that I found blistering were your thoughts about the Civil War continuing.

I've read lots of vicious comments against the South but haven't run across any against the North since I registered here in 2004. A thread was locked the other day before I could respond.

Just wanted to point out my husband's comments because he lived in both the North & the South.

Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9363459

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:hi:

Onedit: K & R !!!

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Anyone who doesn’t understand that this is the main ingredient in their bowl of poison either agrees with them, or just doesn’t “get it” and never will.

Absolutely.

And Number 23, thank you so much for the support and link you gave me the other night. I learned quite a lot in an oasis of calm. I appreciate it most heartedly. :hi:

:)

Even after two centuries, white privilege and institutional racism is a racket too good to give up to the point of its "recipients" denying it exists while receiving the bounty of the land. When that "racket" is being threatened with a change in power, the dominant culture kicks into gear to continue letting the good times roll.

America is the land of plenty--for some.

The entire expansion of our nation was based on the idea that we deserved to take and own anything we wanted, because we were more worthy of having it than any non-white, less-human people who already had it. They weren't using it as well as we could. They didn't deserve the bounty of it as much as we did.

Those beliefs haven't died. And we still haven't don't anything to pay for how we acquired all our land in the past.

We haven't even begun to accept that there is any need to make reparations for braking every treaty we ever signed in order to steal all that land and all those resources.

In a nation that supposedly worships capitalism and the sanctity of contracts that's an odd omission for us to make. Contracts are only sacred, and must only be enforced, when they benefit us. Otherwise, we apparently have a sacred duty to brake those contracts at the most convenient time, and in the most brutal possible way. x(

"WHEN can the Civil War end? " :argh:

Not to me necessarily, but overheard, and group talk.
Well, all except the 'non-American black man'. That one I never hear.
But socialist, liberal - wine-sipping - get that each and every day in reference to Obama. Or really Democrats in general, not just Obama.

Well said, I completely agree.