Posted on 10/29/2008 7:16:30 AM PDT by jessduntno
Racial amnesia may be the cure By Anita F. Hill October 29, 2008
MANY OF US who advocate for civil rights lament the fact that the country seems to have forgotten the role race has played in the American experience. We even accuse America of suffering from racial amnesia. Yet, racial amnesia may help Barack Obama and other Democrats on Election Day.
When some Americans remember race, they are reminded of why they and their parents started voting Republican. As President Lyndon Johnson predicted, the exodus began when he supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Even as many in the country were pushing back from racist behavior, those who rejected the federal government's authority to usher in social change captured a portion of the country's political imagination. For them, the laws enacted in the 1960s represented unwarranted government interference on many fronts, and actually contributed to the racial divisions.
States throughout the South abandoned the Democratic Party. Border states and states in the Midwest followed suit, ending histories of straight Democratic Party line representation. Economic concerns played a part as well. But as Sam Gibbons, a Democrat from Florida, observed in 1994, "Republicans have been able to capitalize on [race], creating what is, in effect, an all-white party."
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Yeah, she was a real conservative...good grief.
Anita “I lied under oath” Hill ?
Anita “I stalked Clarence Thomas” Hill ?
Should we bother to remind her that the Civil Rights Act wouldn't have passed without the Republicans?
Forget you’re a racist and vote Obama. Then you can go back to your miserable lives...
Gross misrepresentation of the facts.
She still likes to make things up...
Why is it that femminists said I believe Anita Hill (who had no real proof) but not I believe Juanita Broderick (who had mountains of proof)?
Forget it, she’s rolling.
A under oath liar lecturing the rest of us.
Laughable.
Screw all these people that sit around and constantly grouse about what color someones skin happens to be. I don’t care what color a persons skin is. Unfortunately, there are WAY too many people who happen to have dark skin who bitch and bitch and bitch. Usually, they are stupid asses like this woman and Obama. They NEED to have dark skin to be what they are. Without their dark skin color they’d be nobody. Odd, isn’t it? Without their dark skin color they would not be rich and famous. Amusing if you think about it. Scary if you consider that they want to “pay back” people like me that just happen to be born white. In the end they have become what they say others of another color are. Racists.
Prior to the 1960's, the South was known for its huge disparities of wealth. A few were extravagantly rich (prior to the Civil War, there were more millionaires in Mississippi than anywhere else in the country), while a great majority were dirt poor. It was no coincidence that all voted Democrat.
In the late 1960's, you began seeing the rise of the Middle Class in the South. Not filthy rich, but also not "Po woiking men" either. Like the bastion of the midwest and suburbs everywhere else, you saw the rise of the Republican party through this.
Anita F. Hill ....Clarence Thomas’s nightmare. Yeah right Anita... you get passed skin color and vote for McCain.
Obama and his supporters can do their part to help America get past the era of racial division by resisting the temptation to assign racist motives to those who opposed his candidacy. If he fails to do this after his coming defeat, all the “unity” and “post-racial” babble will be exposed as cynical lies.
>>Gross misrepresentation of the facts.<<
Liberals: Facts, we don’t need no stinking facts.
It’s all about whom they are accusing. As long as the accused fully supports abortion on demand 100%, they look the other way no matter how bad it is (i.e. “One Free Rape”).
Anita “I lied under oath” Hill ?
Anita “I stalked Clarence Thomas” Hill ?”
Racial Amnesia?
Talk to the blacks who are going to vote for Nobamama JUST BECAUSE HE IS BLACK!!!!
She is preaching to the wrong color of the USA population, IMO.
I would like an analysis of how much money the white workers of this country have paid into “War On Poverty” and entitlement programs in the USA for the past 45+ years.
If the white hadn’t been hard working and taxed plenty, there would have been no money to tax and turn over to the “War On Poverty” recipients.
Being targeted now, by a Presidential candidate who was barely born when the War on Poverty was started, and his own people being the major takers, not the givers, is a complete opposite of what he seems to be hearing in Rev Wright’s “church” and what Nobama is trying to implement as a President.
They all hate us whites, and are trying to find more and more ways to exploit us.
Companies/self-employeds who are pulling their savings and 401(k) money out of the funds, and putting the money into safes in their houses will survive.
They will draw back on thier earnings and refuse to increase their earnings if Nobamama gets elected.
Fight this whole scenario by electing John MCCain.
LOL, Garrett Morris was the most underrated Not Ready for Primetime Player.
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