In “Dog Whistle Politics” Ian Haney Lopez starts off his book by first talking about how the use of the dog whistle has been used for example on page ix it is said that the words are used to “ repeat the use of blasting of criminals and welfare cheating, illegal aliens, and sharia law”. ( Lopez ix) After Mr. Lopez finishes his use of the word he goes on to not only talk about obama but the main point of the section he is writing his professor Mr. Bell and how he was right all along in his thought of white dominates and how they adapt to society. Lopez goes on to talk about how the republican party is mostly a white party and it has been record that the middle class is mostly white as well as how dog whistling is not just white people and the middle class but it is everyone that uses it. Next Ian Haney Lopez talks about the …show more content…
“Wallace, Goldwater,and Nixon recognized and sought to take advantage of existing bigotry in the voting public” (Lopez 35) Lopez states that to help one get elected one must have a plan if they want to abuse the “smaller” minded followers that might feel a little racist which is basically “hate, structural racism,and implicit bas” (Lopez 40) each just wanted to win by using the people. “Dog whistle racism is racism-- indeed, it is racism’s most poisonous core-- because it legitimizes,energizes, and stimulates the entire destructive project of racial divisions”. (Lopez 49) The government controls the middle class by tricking them to think to wreak themselves by believing that government and the rich are the greatest threat to their life and the United States. During Reagan's presidency, the US went from a place where money was given to conspiracy theories to the big idea of “think tanks” which grew as time went
In 1964 Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer gave her heartbreaking speech about her experiences she had to become a first-class citizen, trying to gain the right to vote. Mrs. Hamer spoke to the community about this topic because America is supposed to be the land of the free, and what she endured was everything except that. In Mrs. Hamer’s speech, she believes that no citizen in America, no matter their race or ethnicity, should have endured abuse and hate to become a first-class citizen. This exigence is rhetorical because it allowed for positive change and can be seen in modern day America (Bitzer, 7-8.). During her speech, she is criticizing America, while demanding more for American citizens (Cox, p. 145)
Dan T. Carter’s book The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics chronicles the rise and fall of George Wallace, a populist who abandoned his ideals to become a national symbol of racism. In chapter eleven, the book takes a look at the “southernization” of American politics, with a special focus on the 1968 presidential election. This chapter discusses how Richard Nixon used his “Southern Strategy”, George Wallace’s “Wallace Factor”, and how Wallace’s political style helped the Republican Party rise in the South. Richard Nixon saw the fractures in the Solid South that were caused by Civil Rights legislation as a way to draw in Democrats living in southern states that
A source who wished to remain anonymous retold the story to PartisanBuzz of the events that took place after the highly creative U-haul truck pulled up to the front of the Mepham High school, exposing to the community for the first time the Dean / Football coach 's illicit affair. "When the truck pulled up the students and faculty were stunned, as everyone was reading the story. When Coach Cracco 's black truck came speeding down the street, he slammed on the brakes and jumped out. We were all in shock as he headed toward the u-haul, because we knew this was gonna get crazy" the source told me. When he [Cracco] came storming out of his car, he looked mad as hell, Coach ran to the back of the truck.
In his article “On race relations, Republicans can’t be the party of both Lincoln and Reagan“, Professor Shastri argues that these two presidents held opposite positions on the cultural and economic dimensions regarding race relations. First of all, he discusses how they differ on the way they intervened in the South. This ties with the topic of federalism, since Lincoln used the national abolishment of slavery as a medium to unite the states that wanted to rule themselves instead of being part of the Union. He valued equality more than democracy because obeying the racist majority in this case meant taking away the rights of the Black Americans. On the other hand, Reagan focused on the rights of the states to handle racial discrimination the way they thought most convenient.
Behnken describes how the Mexican-Americans with LULAC’s support were able to utilize the whiteness strategy in order to win court cases and integrate Mexican-Americans into white schools. However, Behnken also describes that the whiteness strategy of Mexican-Americans in the 1950s led to disunity between the Mexican-Americans and the
Parker develops her idea by continuously providing examples of occurrences, followed by commentary. Her point of this article is to inform people about their actions, in order to prevent an act of trying to be sensible into insensitivity. Parker establishes a semi-formal relationship with her audience of mainly professors who are ambivalent about the appropriateness of certain literature. Kathleen Parker, in her article, “Erasing the Race Card” (April 17, 2014), suggests that today’s societies are still heavily racially divided. Parker develops her idea by providing instances where racial beliefs had affected politics and everyday social life.
William E. Pemberton describes Reagan as a president that was against affirmative action by stating, “He attacked affirmative action on the grounds that
It is a well known fact that history repeats itself. This entangling cycle of repetition can be witnessed in the constant racist and prejudice state of American society. In The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander is able to bring to light the mistake people have been making through the process of repeating history, this mistake being the repeated use of racism and prejudice to successfully segregate society in order to accomplish a goal. Accordingly, during the time of slavery, a white lower class man by the name Nathaniel Bacon started a rebellion, uniting the poor whites and the blacks against the white elite. In response to this, the white elite used the repeated tactic of segregating whites from blacks and in their vulnerable state, gave
Yet the toughest part of the problem now is that as soon as you start talking about the Tea Party and race, they turn around and say, “You are the racist for saying that we are the racists.” The rhetoric of race has changed dramatically in a way that racial justice projects have lost, but also, and more fundamentally, liberalism has lost. It’s lost because race has shifted to a coded and expressed register and on both registers the language of race is controlled by conservatives. So on the coded register, you have this constant drumbeat of insinuations that taint liberalism as a giveaway to minorities through language like “welfare” or “amnesty” or “causing terrorism.” And you don’t see liberals using a coded racial language to rebut that.
QUESTION 1 – APPLY In this article and from class material what examples can you identify that demonstrate Texas’ historical resistance to civil rights? History shows that it was hard for Texas to get rid of its slave-holding past. The State’s attitude to the process of desegregation was not homogenous.
Rodriquez’s interviews demonstrate that color-blind ideology enables white people to
When explaining their lack of trust in the government tea party members often times subtly imply the reason is due to people of color receiving aid they do not deserve. As stated by Hochschild when Barack Obama white americans cultivated a feeling that, “The president is their president, not your president” (Hochschild X). Although not explicitly said the they that is being referred to is people of color. White American felt and continues to feel that the “wrong” people are being helped get ahead and those people are people of color. Correspondingly, author David Lotto’s explores the rise of racism in the political agenda, specifically that of the Tea Party.
For example, one racial project that has taken hold in the Black community has been on black beauty. Although a “Black is Beautiful” movement started in the 1960’s there was a natural hair movement in the 2000s that sparked social, political and economic change. Dominant culture dictated straight and “neat” hair; this was a way to control Black bodies both socially and economically, as certain workplaces maintained racist guidelines on appearance. This racial project challenged the beauty norms, triggered a 34% decline in relaxers since 2009 (Sidibe 2015) while increasing the market of Black beauty supplies, while also advocating for changes in racist regulations such as “unauthorized hairstyles” outlined by the U.S. Military (Rhodan 2004).
Derek Montelongo RWS-200 Professor Cissel 2/15/23 Segregation is a topic that is synonymous with most of the United State’s history. On the cornerstone of breaking into a new world free of segregation, George Wallace, the newly elected governor of Alabama, strives to keep the staple of segregation for eternity. Wallace makes his famed, controversial 1963 inaugural speech in Alabama, where he declares to defend the core values of the south against the federal government. Prior to his election as governor, George Wallace was nowhere near the racial extremist he portrayed himself to be during his campaign. During his time being a member of the Alabama House of Representatives, Wallace considered himself to be a progressive liberal, gaining support even from the NAACP.
This was in 1958, and he imputed his loss in the election to being “outniggered by John Patterson” (American Experience). In the next election, he won in a landslide because of his newfound, provincial southern approach. In his most famous speech, Wallace said “Let us rise to the call for freedom-loving blood that is in us and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South. In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" (1963 Inaugural Address). These words went down in history because they are so racist, ironically invoking the “chains” that shackle white southerners, but this spoke to the white voters of Alabama, symbolizing