1) I think the Democratic Parties legions of race baiters (the race card) is a very effective tool in keeping racism alive and promoting mistrust, especially between the political parties.
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Why do Blacks vote Democratic?
Goldwater opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Nixon instituted the Southern Strategy
Reagan Talked about Welfare Queens and Young Bucks
Bush said the Scary Black Man Willie Horton was going to get you.
Jesse Helms showed "white hands" complaining about how affirmative action stole your job.
Romney talked about Birth Certificates and the "47%".
The thing is there is a party that has consistently appealed to racism, and that's the Republican party. It might have been a good strategy (and a shameful one) in 1988 when Whites still made up 88% of the electorate.
When they are down to 70% of the electorate, it's less good of an idea.
But keep repeating stuff about Welfare, that'll win people over. No really.
And the background-noise rhetoric like we hear here from the Matthews and Steve McRacists whining about how "feral negroes" are incapable yadda yadda, and how "Democrats run the most violent cities" yadda yadda, and the general deliberately divisive/dismissive tone purveyed by the bloviators like Lush "Take that bone out of your nose" Rimjob... all of that is effective, but what it's effective at is swaying the excluded people to hunker down where they are and despise the source of that division. See above, post 171, for yet another example of distant dismissive denunciation devoid of empathy.
Then in the day-to-day world you've got Fox Noise raking the same constituency imagining "huuuge" stories out of....wait for it.... Jeremiah Wright. And ACORN. And Van Jones and Shirley Sherrod and the "New Black Panthers" and "hip hop barbecues"... sometimes the message never directly mentions black people, while the undercurrent
screams it.
That's simply how the dynamics of
exclusion work. Exclusion is for keeping people out; if you want people coming in, you go with
inclusive. What the RP has experienced with the 47% syndrome is a little like producing a music concert and wondering, "how come no black/Hispanic people showed up?" Well, it's because your stage has nothing but Lawrence Welk on it with an occasional supporting act of Rimjob playing his big hit, "Barack the Magic Negro".