>we still practice the same kinds of oppression we did in the 60s, we just do it under a different banner. It's because of drugs, or gangs, or welfare queens, o

>we still practice the same kinds of oppression we did in the 60s, we just do it under a different banner. It's because of drugs, or gangs, or welfare queens, or 'everyone must vote in person with state ID issued at our vanishingly few DMVs and only during working hours'. This is intentional. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/ https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwa... >The late, legendarily brutal campaign consultant Lee Atwater explains how Republicans can win the vote of racists without sounding racist themselves: >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, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”