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The Problem With Republican Outreach Efforts: White Identity Politics
Despite claims to the contrary: The Republican Party already caters to a wide range of identity movements (example: Southern Baptist wing of Evangelicalism) and they just so happen to be overwhelmingly white.
Despite claims to the contrary: The Republican Party already caters to a wide range of identity movements (example: Southern Baptist wing of Evangelicalism) and they just so happen to be overwhelmingly white.
So, when they say that they're tired of hearing about identity politics, they are being disingenuous.
How? Because they are one of the biggest promoters of it.
It would be like CitiBank saying they're tired of Capitalism.
How? Because they are one of the biggest promoters of it.
It would be like CitiBank saying they're tired of Capitalism.
The party will never win a majority of minorities (Blacks, Asians, Jews, Muslims, Arabs) because their interest groups (largely white) need a safe-space, and they don't like to share their safe-space with identities that don't conform to their Lily White narrative of reality.
Hannah Arendt and the Banality of Evil
“People who do evil are not necessarily monsters; sometimes they’re just bureaucrats. The Eichmann she observed on trial was neither brilliant nor a sociopath”
radioopensource.org/hannah-arendt-…
“People who do evil are not necessarily monsters; sometimes they’re just bureaucrats. The Eichmann she observed on trial was neither brilliant nor a sociopath”
radioopensource.org/hannah-arendt-…
“He was described by the attending court psychiatrist as a “completely normal man, more normal, at any rate, than I am after examining him.” Evil, Arendt suggests, can be extraordinary acts committed by otherwise unremarkable people.”
radioopensource.org/hannah-arendt-…
radioopensource.org/hannah-arendt-…
My view: Sometimes in history there are outliers, dissimilar behaviors , so evil, that words just fail to fully describe how evil they truly are.
Our fair-weather friend: “Lily White” Moderate Republicanism
The Republican Party's “race” problem did not start with Donald Trump, and it will not end with Donald Trump.
It started over a century ago with its embrace of “The Lily White Movement”.
The Republican Party's “race” problem did not start with Donald Trump, and it will not end with Donald Trump.
It started over a century ago with its embrace of “The Lily White Movement”.
The number one enabler of anti-black racism and bigotry in The Republican Party (for over a century) has been moderate Republicanism.
At almost every turn, it whored Itself out for a few coins, to white-supremacy! In the day, it smiled in Black people’s face, but in the dark of night it conspired and stabbed black Republicanism in the back.
American nationalist these days..
allegiance to every white-nation but their own.
They accuse others of being “globalist” but look at them acting like globalist.
It’s like a Alt-Right-Nazi-Start-Treck Federation.
Disgusting.
allegiance to every white-nation but their own.
They accuse others of being “globalist” but look at them acting like globalist.
It’s like a Alt-Right-Nazi-Start-Treck Federation.
Disgusting.
These Nationalist are never home. “Change the world, but “can’t even take out the trash”.
Never home.
The colorblind/Nazi coalition who imply that intellectual diversity is far more important than racial diversity miss the very point.
The point: The marginalized are RESPONDING to centuries of racial and religious oppression.
The point. They missed it.
The point: The marginalized are RESPONDING to centuries of racial and religious oppression.
The point. They missed it.
Without properly explaining diversity or reasserting it’s proper meaning, it kinda gives it the appearance of being a crayon thing.
But, it's much more than a crayon thing.
It’s an ideas thing.
But, it's much more than a crayon thing.
It’s an ideas thing.
Hate is an intense feeling.
Not liking hate is also a feeling.
But, why don’t you like it?
That requires an explanation.
In other words, to be Rev. Martin Luther King is to be more than just a feeling, or even announcing one’s identity.
It’s more than that.
Not liking hate is also a feeling.
But, why don’t you like it?
That requires an explanation.
In other words, to be Rev. Martin Luther King is to be more than just a feeling, or even announcing one’s identity.
It’s more than that.
Racist had a dissimilar impact on black-American citizens in America for over 250+ years!
That dissimilar experience certainly explains Black people’s dissimilar voting patterns.
That dissimilar experience certainly explains Black people’s dissimilar voting patterns.
Professor Angela K. Lewis’s book on Black Conservatism goes into great detail on this very subject. And she’s very fair about it.
This is the problem...
A lot of white-conservatives wanna say that Blacks left Republican Party to vote Democrat because of food stamps & welfare’s “goodies”.
That’s a lie.
A lot of white-conservatives wanna say that Blacks left Republican Party to vote Democrat because of food stamps & welfare’s “goodies”.
That’s a lie.
White Nationalist were silent while 3 African-American churches in Louisiana were burning. But, now that #NotreDame is suddenly burning (and without evidence) they are trying to blame it on Muslims.
What wicked opportunist!!
They don’t care if black churches burn, because that doesn’t play into their little Lily-White #WhiteGenocide narrative.
But, this one does so suddenly they’re up-and-about!
“Oh, the caliphate is here, the moooooselums are attacking. time to get paid, click-bait, click-bait.”
But, this one does so suddenly they’re up-and-about!
“Oh, the caliphate is here, the moooooselums are attacking. time to get paid, click-bait, click-bait.”
If you’re a political science student looking for 👀 an example serving to clarify whether # identitypolitics is helpful to Republicans, study New York’s 9th Congressional District.
Why Queens Jews Picked the Republican
tabletmag.com/jewish-news-an…
It’s an eye-opener.
Why Queens Jews Picked the Republican
tabletmag.com/jewish-news-an…
It’s an eye-opener.
The way The Republican Party engages and treats the Jewish community (esp. in cities) is very, very, different from how it engages and treats the African American community.
It’s shameful.
It’s hypocrisy.
It’s favoritism.
It’s shameful.
It’s hypocrisy.
It’s favoritism.
What the 2011 Turner, New York 9th CD campaign shows is that the party knows how to employ inclusive identity politics (without being colorblind or indifferent) when it wants to.
When it comes to African Americans it (The GOP) chooses to suddenly become “colorblind”.
When it comes to African Americans it (The GOP) chooses to suddenly become “colorblind”.
Akil Alleyne (@AKalleyne) -- Dear #CandaceOwens: Stop Trying to Make "#Blexit" Happen—It's Not Gonna Happen!!
No, the right-wing provocateur's punditry will NOT lead African-Americans from the Democratic Party into the GOP. Here's why #blackconservatism
No, the right-wing provocateur's punditry will NOT lead African-Americans from the Democratic Party into the GOP. Here's why #blackconservatism
People telling African-Americans to get over centuries years of white-supremacy, and the colorblindness arguments, the rise in hate-crimes, and white-nationalist attacks on identity politics.
I believe it’s all related, that there's a strong correlation.
I believe it’s all related, that there's a strong correlation.
“This is what underpins the far-right's endless whataboutery and tendency to equate slavery in different contexts across different millenia. The goal is to empty the history of the transatlantic slave trade of its unique racial element and thus remove its legacy as a determinant"
—- Liam Hogan
If you're wondering what unites authentic Black Conservatism & authentic Black Progressivism: BOTH are race-conscious ---- not colorblind.
We share this.
Another observation: I find that ethnic-immigrants and African Americans who are largely raised primarily in White families, or white-evangelical churches (not the Black Church) are colorblind and tend to have a hard time understanding why we even have a BLACK church.
One of the privileges of being white in America: You can burn shit down and no one blames your individual misdeeds on your entire white community.
No one says, it's their "culture".
No one says, it's their "culture".
No one says, "Why don't the white people take responsibility for a member of their community."
But let a Muslim or a black person burn shit dowm, and all of a sudden any concept of "individualism" is thrown out the window whilst "collective" condemnation is in.
The first #SouthernStrategy started long before the 60’s
It was a strategy to wipe out Black Republican power in the South, and it was waged by white-racist Republicans on behalf of white-racist-Democrats. It started in the 1800’s and ended in the 50’s.
nytimes.com/1903/02/17/arc…
It was a strategy to wipe out Black Republican power in the South, and it was waged by white-racist Republicans on behalf of white-racist-Democrats. It started in the 1800’s and ended in the 50’s.
nytimes.com/1903/02/17/arc…
After waging a brutal war on Black Conservatism in the South, the Lily White colonization process begins.
Free of the black-race-conscious narrative, It could rest, it could now pass the torch to her racist & demonic sister “Lily White” Evangelicalism.
forbes.com/sites/chrislad…
Free of the black-race-conscious narrative, It could rest, it could now pass the torch to her racist & demonic sister “Lily White” Evangelicalism.
forbes.com/sites/chrislad…
Race, not abortion, was the founding issue of the religious right
bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/0… via @BostonGlobe
bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/0… via @BostonGlobe
Conservatives’ self-delusion on race: How the right created the illusion of colorblindness.
"National Review’s editorial line on racial issues shifted in the 1960s toward a “colorblind” constitutional strategy."
blackconservative360.blogspot.com/2019/04/joshua… @VOICEOFCHID @AlsoACarpenter
"National Review’s editorial line on racial issues shifted in the 1960s toward a “colorblind” constitutional strategy."
blackconservative360.blogspot.com/2019/04/joshua… @VOICEOFCHID @AlsoACarpenter
"National Review’s editorial line on racial issues shifted in the 1960s toward a “colorblind” constitutional strategy. In part, this change reflected the moral case made by civil rights activists that laid bare the brutal realities of Jim Crow."
Despite African Americans being very conservative on many issues, this explains why “colorblind” conservatism has never taken root in the Black community — It was baptized in a bathtub of White Supremacy.
And older blacks knew this.
And older blacks knew this.
Dear Media
I feel as if you're not doing your job with regards this #AndewYang Presidential candidate (who the alt-right for some reason love)...
I can't say for sure...
But, I remember an Asian Republican candidate who looked like him, same name, similiar campaign style.
I feel as if you're not doing your job with regards this #AndewYang Presidential candidate (who the alt-right for some reason love)...
I can't say for sure...
But, I remember an Asian Republican candidate who looked like him, same name, similiar campaign style.
I'm not saying it's him. But, it's certainly worth a little effort to validate -- just ask the man: Hi Andrew, have you ever ran as a Republican.
I mean really, is that so difficult?
They are writing whole articles on the man, and yet no one has even bothered to ask him that.
I mean really, is that so difficult?
They are writing whole articles on the man, and yet no one has even bothered to ask him that.
If he is the same Andrew, it could mean (it does not mean it's true -- just plausible) that his online rise to fame had maybe some perhaps prior assistance.
Wake up media...you're sleeping while Democracy is being set ablaze...
Wake up media...you're sleeping while Democracy is being set ablaze...
I do not understand people like Jordan Peele.
Why would you make a comment like this knowing it'll be weaponized globally by white nationalist?
Why would you make a comment like this knowing it'll be weaponized globally by white nationalist?
This reminds me of the myriad of stupid things Black Lives Matter did during the election, like grabbing Sanders mic, totally indifferent to why you might need a PR firm? Why Trump kept saying "Law & Order" while Baltimore was in flames.
It's almost as if they are helping Trump craft a 2019 message.
"This is what underpins the far-right's endless whataboutery and tendency to equate slavery in different contexts across different millenia. The goal is to empty the history of the transatlantic slave trade of its unique racial element and thus remove its legacy as a determinant"
- Liam Hogan
FACT: "Earlier coerced labor systems in the Atlantic World generally differed, in terms of scale, legal status, and racial definitions, from the trans-Atlantic chattel slavery system that developed and shaped New World societies from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries."
There’s something ironic about a political party birtted to fight white-supremacy, birthed to free black people, today being led by Trump, led today by white folks who claim they don’t see black folk!
It’s all rather odd.
#ColorblindRepublicanParty
It’s all rather odd.
#ColorblindRepublicanParty
When White Supremacist in the Republicans party evicted Blacks Republicans from their own party, it set off a chain of events that this country is still struggling with.
history.house.gov/Exhibitions-an…
history.house.gov/Exhibitions-an…
A history of Black Republicanism turns American politics on its head. How? Because at the very core of that history are a people who are largely conservative and black being undermined by white racist Republicans who want to win over white racist Democrats!
It’s almost surreal.
It’s almost surreal.
Why Black Conservatism has always been suspicious of White Moderate Republicanism.
Historically, it’s always been a weak and chestless-fair-weather friend to us.
Historically, it’s always been a weak and chestless-fair-weather friend to us.
Especially when it’s forced to choose between Lily White Conservativsm & Black Conservativsm.
Many of the Muslims at the mosque were citizens of New Zealand 🇳🇿! But, the shooter was an -Australian- citizen (another country) not even a citizen. But, he’s upset about immigrants!
That definitely goes beyond white nationalism: it’s White Globalism
He’s in another county.
That definitely goes beyond white nationalism: it’s White Globalism
He’s in another county.
He’s a non-citizen murdering citizens! And he’s a “Nationalist”?
They’re not Nationalist! They’re White-Federationalist who see other countries as part of their white federation!
The most expeditious way to defend what some refer to as "#WesternCivilization" and lose is to make it for whites only.
It’s not for white people only.
That’s a demonic lie.
#NewZealandMosqueShooting
It’s not for white people only.
That’s a demonic lie.
#NewZealandMosqueShooting
White Nationalist like to employ “Western civilization” as a kind of dog-whistle code for white nationalist and their allies. When regular folk hear it, it means one thing. But, when they use it, it conveys a racial thing.
It's how they recruit young, white, naive conservatives.
It's how they recruit young, white, naive conservatives.
But, here’s what they won’t tell you: Few know that the term they use "Western civilization,” is an [American] invention - not European!
The Altright is stealthily trying to get Democrat candidates to embrace all sorts of policies policies that will ensure their defeat up against Donald Trump’s brand of populist white nationalist...
Reperations? Really? WTF?
#stupid
Reperations? Really? WTF?
#stupid
Don’t ever forget!
They (White Nationalist) will use, engage, employ, entertain the trappings of tolerance, diversity, of multiculturalism in order to wage war against all three — to set all three on 🔥.
They (White Nationalist) will use, engage, employ, entertain the trappings of tolerance, diversity, of multiculturalism in order to wage war against all three — to set all three on 🔥.
Do Not Be Misled!
The German Evangelical Church under National Socialism
“With Hitler's ascent to power, Bonhoeffer's church—the German Evangelical Church—entered the most difficult phase in its history. Strongly influenced by nationalism, many Protestant leaders welcomed the rise of Nazism.”
“With Hitler's ascent to power, Bonhoeffer's church—the German Evangelical Church—entered the most difficult phase in its history. Strongly influenced by nationalism, many Protestant leaders welcomed the rise of Nazism.”
“In 1933, a group called the German Christians (Deutsche Christen) began to promote the nazification of German Protestantism through the creation of a pro-Nazi “Reich Church.”
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Ch…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Ch…
“The German Christians wanted Protestantism to conform to Nazi ideology, and they pushed for the implementation of the state “Aryan laws” within the churches.”
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art…
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art…
