uniquelabel t1_iu6khgr wrote
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Which racist do you think black people should have voted for?
DanielAlman OP t1_iu86340 wrote
I have never understood why most black people vote for the party of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow, school segregation, redlining, Japanese internment, Robert Byrd, and Ralph Northam.
uniquelabel t1_iu9bbbd wrote
It’s an interesting question. Democrats were 100% the party of racism in the 1800s, while Republicans were the party of Lincoln and abolition and civil rights. So what changed? If you’re really curious, you can read about the Dixiecrats, and the “southern strategy”. It’s interesting history.
DanielAlman OP t1_iueeuqo wrote
I know about the southern strategy. But the fact remains that after Robert Byrd started his own KKK chapter and recruited 150 of his friends and family members to join, he later got elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat. And if he hadn't died, he would still be in office as a Democrat. Hillary Clinton even referred to him as her good friend and mentor. Byrd never changed his party affiliation to Republican.
Democrat Ralph Northam said it was indeed him in a racist photograph from college, but he wasn't sure if he was the guy in the KKK outfit, or the guy in blackface. And he never changed his affiliation to Republican either.
Joe Biden never changed his affiliation to Republican after creating his racist crime bill.
Democrats are also the party that thinks black people are too stupid to get into college without special racial preferences, despite the fact that there are a lot of very intelligent, very bright black people who did very, very well in high school, and who are perfectly capable of getting into college based 100% on merit.
uniquelabel t1_iufdbiz wrote
I suspect, if you look around, you can also find an example or two of Republicans being racist.
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