In my lifetime there have been a lot of racist presidents. President Kennedy let the FBI spy on Martin Luther King and told him to halt peaceful protests for equality. President Johnson, who commonly called blacks the “N-word,” remarked: “We’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.”
President Carter told white Detroiters the government must protect the “ethnic purity” of white neighborhoods. And until his election, Carter worshipped at a whites-only church, resigning only when the scandal broke.
President Clinton never denounced his wife’s characterization of black men as “superpredators.” And President Obama regularly attended a church whose black pastor spewed anti-Jewish racism, disavowing the racism only during his 2008 campaign.
These racist presidents were all Democrats.
Seth Watkins,
Menlo Park
not sure why the j found this letter worthy of publishing
Thank you Seth! Truth needs to be told over and over again
Being critical of the fascist state of Israel is not anti-Jewish, it is being moral. This whole argument is just a cover for real racists. Racists like the Israeli government or Republican Party. It is insulting to reason and morality to suggest that Republican efforts to disenfranchise Black voters is not evidence of systemic racism in that organization. Yes, some Democrats have been racists but that is very different from being organizationally committed to suppressing Black people’s political power so that they can be dominated and controlled. Some Democrats may have been and may be racists but the Republican Party is organizationally racist. That difference matters.
Wouldn’t care to place a little money on your theory of “…democrats have been racists but that is very different from being
organizationally committed to suppressing Black people’s political power.” Of course, maybe you think CONTROLLING AND MANIPULATING black “political power” is different than “suppressing” their power as voters…
PS – What part, precisely, of the Republican Party do you imagine is “organizationally racist,” surely not the fact that they CAVED to every single Barry Soetoro demand during his so-called term as Fake President.
So what’s new about these old far-Left Propaganda tactics? They have been using their propaganda-gorilla warfare tactics as far back as the 1930’s and the only difference today is that the so-called news media actively participate (our media use to get their marching orders from the folks identified in the Mitrokhin Archives) but since Trump they’ve been taken off-the-leash and are simply making things up as they go…the new rule is not a little focused propaganda in the right place at the right time, it’s flood all communication with unbridled speculation, confuse everyone and just do whatever you can to trash Trump and anyone who sides with him.
Ever notice that it is the racist on the Left who always are the first to scream “racist” (of course maybe that’s fare since they were the one’s who turned personal opinion of normal folks into rabid wild-animal “racist” opinions that MUST NOT be tolerated…EVER) at anyone who disagrees with their, very odd, version of reality.