Democrats routinely blame Donald Trump for exacerbating racial tensions, but they're the ones who made the stoking of ethnic conflict a hallmark of their electoral strategy long before 2016.
President Lyndon Johnson, for instance, reportedly viewed the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act in purely cynical and racist terms, predicting that the new laws would enable Democrats to secure the black vote for generations to come. Democrats then spent the next several decades baselessly impugning their Republican opponents as racists, but the practice really ramped up during the administration of President Barack Obama.
As the militant Black Lives Matter movement began calling for violence against police officers and rioting in the streets, Obama added fuel to the fire with his pronouncements on race. When the nation was divided over the killing of black teenager Trayvon Martin, for instance, Obama remarked that if he had a son, he would look like Martin.
When Ferguson, Missouri was turned upside-down by protesters after a police officer shot a black teenager who was trying to escape custody, Obama offered perfunctory support for law enforcement yet simultaneously validated the protesters by saying he thinks their concerns are justified. When a black college professor raised a national furor because a white police officer confused him for a burglar as he was trying to enter his home through a window, Obama's immediate response was to condemn the police department for "acting stupidly."
Obama's divisive comments on issues of race made him sound tone-deaf to the nation as a whole, but they were perfectly tailored to appeal to the increasingly radical Democrat base.
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[Former Ohio Secretary of State and Cincinnati mayor Ken Blackwell is a member of the Policy Board of the American Civil Rights Union. ]
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6 comments:
That’s their only topic and it’s imaginary
And when a democrat says something racial against blacks it’s overlooked like with the recent Bette Midler comment she made.
Race wars have been going on for thousands of years , starting in Africa and still today in Africa. Tribe verses tribe country verses country . If you think for a minute the U.S. can solve this problem , think again . Of course you won' hear about it as a race war because most are black , but it is. Race is a culture , not color .
It makes me sick to keep hearing this ignorant crap
For many, racial divide is a money maker, not to be upset.
When president Trump wins re-election the left will become unhinged to the point of rioting everywhere,prepare now.
Divided we are weak, together we are strong! They want us divided, they want us fighting, they want chaos, but we MUST stand together! WWG1WGA!!
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