“I’m so old, I can remember when most of the people doing that were white.”
Well, to be fair, a lot of them doing it today are still white. And now, as then, they’re Democrats.
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“I’m so old, I can remember when most of the people doing that were white.”
Well, to be fair, a lot of them doing it today are still white. And now, as then, they’re Democrats.
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What went wrong? The weaponization of racism for political gain and teaching racism in schools. Thanks Democrats.
Institutional racism such as the odious Jim Crow laws were always about political gain. Democrat politicians stoked the fears of poor whites losing their jobs to blacks as a means to gain and maintain their political power.
From Wikipedia:
Failed run for governor[edit]
In 1958, Wallace was defeated by John Malcolm Patterson in Alabama’s Democratic gubernatorial primary election. At the time the primary was the decisive election; the general election was then a mere formality. This was a political crossroads for Wallace. Patterson ran with the support of the Ku Klux Klan, an organization Wallace had spoken against, while Wallace was endorsed by the NAACP. After the election, aide Seymore Trammell recalled Wallace saying, “Seymore, you know why I lost that governor’s race?… I was outniggered by John Patterson. And I’ll tell you here and now, I will never be outniggered again.”
That whole quote is word-for-word from Robert Sherrill’s classic Gothic Politics in the Deep South. Too bad it’s long out of print. It was a great read and a pretty good intro to how things used to be in the heart of the old Confederacy.