There is still racism in the GOP rank and files.
I have recently been doing some digging around to see how the GOP really feels about the African American community. Sadly what I have found does not shock me; instead it only supports what already I believed about the "Christian" Conservative right. I have come up with just a couple of examples to demonstration the racist views among the right runs. I can not help but wounder if these are things they are will to say in public how deep does their hatred for the black community really run? The following are examples of just a few things that have happened during this election cycle:
- Newt Gingrich:
"The truth is that preachers and lawyers have been more dominant in the black culture in the last 40 years than have business people," said Gingrich. "The habits of the church and the habits of the lawsuit have been more powerful than the habits of acquisition and the habits of job creation."
"If you're black you have to work harder, and if you're black and poor you have to work twice as hard."
And of course Newt calling people in poor areas lazy, they need to get jobs, and Obama is the food stamp president
- Rick Perry:
His family ranch...you know the one with that big rock "n** head ranch"
- Ron Paul:
Talking about how the federal legislation to end Jim Crow laws was a "violation of white people's liberty"
His 1990's racist newsletters
His campaign accepted money from white supremacy
Anonymous took down some Neo-Nazis web pages and found Ron Paul had ties to them (if this is proven true would not shock me)
- Rick Santorum:
Promoted a old book Birth of a Nation - a book for white supremacist
"I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them someone else's money"
- Mitt Romney:
Said "Keep America America" and an n to the end of the second America you have the KKK slogan. Now Mitt claims he didn't know that that was the KKK slogan however the KKK had used that slogan for about a generation. Mitt is a lot of bad things but being stupid is not one of them. I truly do believe he knew what it was and used it to pander to the racists of the party and had the arrogance that he didn't think others would pick up on it.
Also he is Mormon until recently there views of the afterlife for African Americans was not great and is still uncertain since it is very closed door group.
Sadly I believe the next generation is already being indoctrinated to hate African Americans. I draw this conclusion from personal experiences. There is another family in our neighborhood who has a little boy the same age/grade as my son so they sometimes play together at school. From knowing this family: they are becoming more conservative in their religious ideology, the husband is on the extreme right for his political views, and they come from an area where there is still open racial tensions at times according to them. A few night ago my son came home to tell me about what had happened in gym that day. The following are the events that took place in the eyes of a six year old:
- My son and another little boy were playing in the gym Wild Kratts (a kid show on PBS about science adventures that have creature power suits that turn into animals). They were pretending to be monkeys
- The neighborhood boy wanted to know what they were playing so my son told him they were monkeys
- The neighborhood boy tells my son that he can not be a monkey, he could never be a monkey, and his friend could only ever be a monkey
- My son said "well Mommy I was a monkey anyway because if I have the creature power suit on I can be any animal I want to be"
- My son's little friend was a black little boy
It does not take a seasoned parent to figure out what took place. I was happy to know my child did not figure it out and I hope the other little boy did not figure out it out. This is what we as a society are up against: generational racism with the added bonus of adults not willing to admit their racist views instead they adopt the victim roll. How do we combat that? I do not know. All I know is I have the power to teach my children better and to be excepting of people of all different cultures.