A Plaintive Cry, from the White Deep South!
Harry Golden gave us minute detail of Republican Party Ritual involving Race; and the special role played by South Carolina, and its Politicians, in that Ritual. Mr Kennedy And The Negroes, (1964). It traces back to the days of the Eisenhower Administration; to Ike, and especially, to Nixon. Johnson worked his "magic", legislatively, to cover for the Hard Right's response to Kennedy's initiatives on Race.
It was Nixon, however, who, on the graves of both Kennedy and Martin King, "outfitted" the Republican Party with the "Race" Horses, that rode them to victories, finally, once Reagan reached the White House. The Bushes were both ready and able to "take the reins", and lead us to our sorry racial stance in 2015!
Yet, in these depths of national despair, a plaintive cry from South Carolina's State House of Representatives, from a White Lady who decided: "This issue ain't gettin' no better with AGE!!" (emphasis added), to bring us all up short and make herself heard. NOW! seems to be the time for the United States to turn against the internal Treason (Robert E. Lee's term for it) that we've coddled from the Sewer States since 1870. Waved like a bloody shirt by FOX and other Right Wing Media; and, now, on the lips of Politicians like Trump, with background sung by Christie, Cruz, and Rubio; the Lady has had enough! with their rhetoric and their tactics.
Our House of Representatives, in Washington, D.C., would not follow South Carolina, however! Today, the Republicans ran like "scalded dogs" from an Initiative brought to the Floor for a Vote, by Minority Leader Pelosi. They connived to KILL any chances that our Nation might follow the State of South Carolina and turn away from HATE.
I was reminded of a summer in the late Sixties, when my 5-yr-old son ran into the house and told his Grandmother that the little boy next door called her a "N*gger"! When I confronted the boy's parents, I found a white father, from Pennsylvania, in tears, and a mother, from Mississippi, staunchly defending her son. The father was at his wits end, trying to convince us that no matter what he tried, his kids were growing up Racists! My first two children had learned from playing in the yard with the kids of other Air Force Officers, beginning a couple of years earlier in Ohio, that white kids thought something was "wrong" with their skin color.
Stay Vigilant! Unless the Republican Party finds a way to "Hear" the White Lady in South Carolina; we may be seeing the final days of the GOP! As the Civil War approached, the Whig Party died, and the Republican Party was born. The evil and cynical Politics, "engineered" by Nixon, and "feared" by Johnson; has become "stardard fare" for the Republican Party -- "launched" into their dogma, by Reagan!
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