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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (5758)	1/12/2017 2:06:19 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 367709

I said in their one form or another, e.g. repression of minority voting rights. Culling the minority voting eligibility with various laws aimed at minorities. They've already been doing that in the South for eight years. All across the South they have done everything in their power legally to repress minority voting. No I don't expect us to go back to having slavery or institutionalized segregation. I do believe this administration is going to make life much harder on African-Americans. Why don't you Google Lee Atwood's Southern strategy. It is horrific. Right after the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Lee Atwood put together a strategy whereby the Republicans would go to the South and tell the white people down there that if they voted Republican they would not enforce the Civil Rights Act any more than they had to. The dirty little secret. By using things like dog whistles i.e. euphemisms for racism. Go research and read it if you don't know what happened. At the end of his life, Lee Atwood apologized. Little good that did the African-American. As mentioned, every single county in Mississippi had the majority of people polling against interracial marriage. And there have been laws on the books until just recently that forbid interracial marriage. After the end of slavery, the South until the 1930s had black chain gangs whereby they would arrest African-Americans illegally and sell them to plantation owners who tortured them and worked them to death. Few people made it out alive. You can Google that one to. A book on it was recently written by Leonard Pitts. It is horrific, it is horrible. That there was segregation in the South until the 1960s is shameful. The rest of the country knew better! And even then it was the northern liberals and African Americans that had to force integration on the South because they refused to be decent human beings. Not one single state in the South voluntarily ended segregation until it was forced on them. How shameful is that? Where is the pity and empathy the people should have. How come people in the South didn't know how terrible a thing that is? Were they stupid or mean or both? That's the question everyone should be asking themselves. << But the discussion was based on this point of yours: "I could see us moving back towards institutionalized segregation of one form or another. " How do you see us getting there from here? What's different now that would portend such a drastic change?