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Anyone remember when they waved around the 'Willie' Horton ad? Well, the GOP certainly is at it again!
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In Wisconsin, where Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, who is Black, is the Democratic nominee for Senate, a National Republican Senatorial Committee ad targeting him ends by juxtaposing his face with those of three Democratic House members, all of them women of color, and the words “different” and “dangerous.” In a mailer sent to several state House districts in New Mexico, the state Republican Party darkened the hands of a barber shown giving a white child a haircut, next to the question, “Do you want a sex offender cutting your child’s hair?”
In North Carolina now the GOP is waving around the fact that Cheri Beasley, as a black public defender, represented a black man who killed a state trooper more than 25 years ago. So what?
Republicans sure know how to get ugly. After being censured about the Horton ad (whose name was William but they called him Willie to sound more ethnic) the ad's designer did apologize when he had a terminal disease.
In North Carolina now the GOP is waving around the fact that Cheri Beasley, as a black public defender, represented a black man who killed a state trooper more than 25 years ago. So what?
Republicans sure know how to get ugly. After being censured about the Horton ad (whose name was William but they called him Willie to sound more ethnic) the ad's designer did apologize when he had a terminal disease.
Read the room...read the polls. You're trying too hard.
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This is a little hard to explain away, as anything other than racist fear mongering.
I can't open the OP article - I've worn out my welcome to NYT free material.
Here's the image. The republican political campaign took an original stock photo of a white child getting a haircut, and darkened the hands to create an "ominous" image.
Yep. The GOP has run on racial animus for decades. Deplorable fear mongering of Black Americans. There is no GOP without the racism and their other hostile resentments against Jewish people and women and migrants. This is who they are and whipping up hate and fear in their bigoted base is what they do in an election season.
Here in 2022 their toxicity is louder, uglier and more open as they push their midterm phony platform of crime. They have chosen to run on crime without any plan to address crime as their objective is only to ramp up racist rhetoric and foment divisiveness and increased civil strife here in the USA.
Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville from Alabama last week claimed Black people are criminals. He went on to say, "Democrats and Blacks want crime because they want to take over what you got." No one in the GOP pushed back or condemned him.
Marjorie Taylor Greene of GOP fame spews her White Nationalist conspiracy theories all across the nation. No one from the Republican Party will condemn her. Rather MAGA Republicanism cheers her forward.
Republican Senate candidates, including J.D. Vance in Ohio, Mastriano in Pennsylvania and Masters in Arizona, have used language that is similar to Greene’s. All Trump appointed and anointed candidates embraced by the GOP.
Kari Lake's racist campaign (Republican TV star running for governor in Arizona) likens all Native Americans to bloodthirsty savages who engage in human sacrifice. No one affiliated with the GOP will speak up against her.
GOP Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin, more than once, has said he wasn't afraid of Trump's White insurrectionists on Jan 6 at the Capitol, but had they been "Biden's Black Lives Matter" thugs he'd have been concerned & scared. No Republican Party pushback.
Republican Gov DeSantis actually attempts to strip Black Floridians of their power and voice at every turn. Volumes have been written about his policies and rhetoric which reveal racism only rivaled by that of the de facto leader of the GOP, one Donald J. Trump, who is hailed for his racial rhetoric, boorish bigotry and prejudiced platform.
And it goes on and on and on.....
GOP race-baiting, aka the Southern Strategy, has paid off for the Republican Party, so expect their bigotry against fellow Americans to not only be condoned but to accelerate, here in 2022. It's all they've got.
Predictable here in 2022 & ALWAYS Shameful!
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...While Republicans quietly stood by advertising that Democrats called racist in 2018, this year, they have responded with defiance, saying they see nothing untoward in their imagery and nothing to apologize for.
“This is stupid, but not surprising,” said Chris Hartline, a spokesman for the Republican Senatorial Committee, whose ads in North Carolina and Wisconsin have prompted accusations of racism. “We’re using their own words and their own records. If they don’t like it, they should invent a time machine, go back in time and not embrace dumb-ass ideas that voters are rejecting.”
Amid pandemic-era crime increases, legitimate policy differences have emerged between the two parties over gun violence, easing access to bail and funding police budgets. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/25/u...=US%20Politics
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Honey? Come here please.
Closer.
Closer.....
Ready?
I am black. Now apologize.
I have nothing to apologize for. I'm not the one who darkened a hand in a photo and called that person a sex offender with his (her?) hands on that frightened looking child.
And if that doesn't give you pause to reflect on why a politician would want to do that, well . . .
[i]...While Republicans quietly stood by advertising that Democrats called racist in 2018, this year, they have responded with defiance, saying they see nothing untoward in their imagery and nothing to apologize for.
When have Republicans admitted race-baiting? Every GOP winning candidate from Nixon to now (except Ford) has used race-bating in the campaign. I guess they know their audience.
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When have Republicans admitted race-baiting? Every GOP winning candidate from Nixon to now (except Ford) has used race-bating in the campaign. I guess they know their audience.
They absolutely do. There's a reason they keep trotting these ads out - they work with those they are trying to reach.
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