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Dr. Frances Cress-Welsing, author of The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Color and founder of the Cress-Welsing Institute of Psychiatry and Social Research
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"You start out in 1954 by saying “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968, you can’t say “nigger” — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like “forced busing,” “states’ rights,” and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now that you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things, and a byproduct of them is that blacks get hurt worse than whites."
Lee Atwater, a head republican strategist, in an anonymous interview in 1981. He is admitting that republicans use coded-language to appeal to the racists in their base. Because, as he always said, “people vote their fears.”
Lee, who would eventually become the head of the Republican National Committee, helped Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush win their Presidential elections by teaching them to use overtly-racist tactics.
When the N-word became taboo, Republicans began referring to black people in less-direct ways, with terms like “welfare queens.” They learned how to say the N-word, without saying the N-word.
Sadly, this still continues today. As seen in Newt Gingrich’s claim that Obama is a “food stamp President” and Rick Santorum’s assertion that he doesn’t “want to make black people’s lives better by giving them someone else’s money.”
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An insight on how black men are harassed and bullied by the police on a daily basis in the UK.
Percentage of black males among people stopped and searched by the police:
1993-94: 11%
2009-10: 18% In London : 33.5%
And keep in mind that black people represent about 2% of the UK population.
Yet the general consensus would like you to think that racism does not exist in the UK and that the structural discrimination of the police and the judiciary system that black people have been complaining forever, is just a myth.
“Bringing race into it is an irrelevance” John O’Connor, former Metropolitan Police commander. This is a white British male for you!
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