"It WasJust a Matter of Time " (before Republicans pulled Race Card)Digby

[KoKo]

It Was Just A Matter of Time

by digby

... before Lou Dobbs went full-on racist on the immigration question.
When these things happen nobody, it seems, are aware of the CCC's views. I am sure that Lou Dobbs will say the same. He's only a credentialed journalist, after all. You can't expect him to have nose for racist propaganda.

This certainly does bring up an interesting question for me, however. I never thought of the CCC as being a white supremecist organization in the mode of say "Stormfront" or something like that. It's a neo-confederate group which is certainly racist but organized explicitly around hatred of African-Americans. The fact that they are touting the ridiculous Aztlan "threat" puts the lie to any claims that this immigration debate isn't being fueled by racism. (Not that that's a big surprise.)

When you go back to those articles I linked above to the CCC scandal back in 1999, there is a clear desire on the part of the institutional GOP to back away from any association with these people. The party was very, very anxious to shed its racist image. Some of these articles even applaud the end of the southern strategy. Yet here it comes again. This time it's the "aliens" rather than the blacks, but it's the same old drill.

It is a sign of Republican weakness this time. They should not have to be shoring up their base with this tired old stuff. But their racist base is restive, looking for a fight, wanting to kick someone's ass to account for their own feelings of impotence in a complicated world. (Same old shit.) The leadership knows it is a losing long term strategy but they're left with nothing else.

Much More on this here............

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1. The Year of the Black Republican

is a total sham. Three races is the YEAR of the black Repulican? Riiiiiiiight.

[Vogon_Glory]

2. Code-Word Race -Baiting and Today's GOP

Code-word race-baiting. Today's Dixiecrat-dominated GOP can no more stay away from race- and ethnic-baiting than a low-bottom drunk can stay away from rot-gut alcohol.

:argh:

I almost pity the Afro-Americans and Latinos who enetered the GOP out of old-time Republican convictions of respect for the individual, limited government, and fiscal responsibility who are now finding themselves seated next to Dixie-fried racism.

Almost.

Wasn't the race-baiting the reason that some of those grayer heads left the Democratic Party back when the Dixiecrats still ran the state and local Democratic Party organizations in the South? And look what the poor sods came "home" to!

:nopity: