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To: SilentZ who wrote (733125)	8/17/2013 7:59:46 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578069

Lee Atwater has been dead for years....

To: SilentZ who wrote (733125)	8/17/2013 7:59:47 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 1578069

Lee Atwater has been dead for years....

To: SilentZ who wrote (733125)	8/17/2013 7:59:47 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 1578069

Lee Atwater has been dead for years....

To: SilentZ who wrote (733125)	8/18/2013 3:57:19 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578069

Z, that is a sorry excuse for conspiracy-theory mongering. You can pretty much take any act, any statement, even any action (or lack thereof) and find some sort of "Southern Strategy" conspiracy behind it. (OMG, banana thrown at black baseball player?!? Must be racist!) That's no way to live, and that's no way to achieve racial reconciliation. All it does is spread the hate and suspicion between races. I can't believe you would fall for this nonsense, unless you were trolling, and for your sake I really hope it's the latter. Tenchusatsu

To: SilentZ who wrote (733125)	8/18/2013 5:42:00 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (10) \| Respond to of 1578069

If you had actually looked up Lee Atwater, you'd know he was pushing the concepts of dog whistles and code words. Atwater: You start out in 1954 by saying, " Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say "nigger" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger." [8] [9]