Why African Americans left the Republican Party
"This decline can be attributed to a general upswing in Lily-White challenges across the South – initiated with President Herbert Hoover’s blessing ."
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#BlackHistoryMonth
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broadstreet.blog/2020/09/14/the…
Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968 amazon.com/dp/1107158435/…
On The Lily White Republicans
"He spoke with no bridled tongue of the political OUTRAGES in Arkansas and FortBend County, #Texas, and stated that he recognized the fight was to OVERTHROW the Negro Republicans in the State."
#BHM
- Maud Cuney-Hare
"It was their object to create a factional fight among the colored men, so that THEY would be free from blame." -- Maud Cuney Hare
blackconservative360.blogspot.com/2020/02/maud-c…
The goal of totalitarian propaganda is not persuasion, but ORGANIZATION of the polity. ... What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only [the consistency of the SYSTEM ] of which they are presumably part.
Hannah Arendt
... "NOT persuasion, but ORGANIZATION of the polity".
Hannah Arendt
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
— Hannah Arendt
“I have to speak as one of the people who’ve been MOST attacked by the Western or the European system of reality...white supremacy...white supremacy comes from Europe...”
— James Baldwin
"Race was invented by White Europeans and perfected in American courts."
shsu.edu/~jll004/vabeac…
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