{"id":198954,"date":"2007-09-25T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/25\/bob-herbert-gets-is-republicans-are-racist-scum\/"},"modified":"2007-09-25T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T21:37:00","slug":"bob-herbert-gets-is-republicans-are-racist-scum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/25\/bob-herbert-gets-is-republicans-are-racist-scum\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Herbert Gets is: Republicans are Racist Scum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read his article, The Ugly Side of the G.O.P. – New York Times<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Here is an excerpt:<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Dr. Carolyn Goodman, a woman I was privileged to call a friend, died last month at the age of 91. She was the mother of Andrew Goodman, one of the three young civil rights activists shot to death by rabid racists near Philadelphia, Miss., in 1964.<\/p>\n

Dr. Goodman, one of the most decent people I have ever known, carried the ache of that loss with her every day of her life.<\/p>\n

In one of the vilest moves in modern presidential politics, Ronald Reagan, the ultimate hero of this latter-day Republican Party, went out of his way to kick off his general election campaign in 1980 in that very same Philadelphia, Miss. He was not there to send the message that he stood solidly for the values of Andrew Goodman. He was there to assure the bigots that he was with them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe in states\u2019 rights,\u201d said Mr. Reagan. The crowd roared.<\/p>\n

In 1981, during the first year of Mr. Reagan\u2019s presidency, the late Lee Atwater gave an interview to a political science professor at Case Western Reserve University, explaining the evolution of the Southern strategy:<\/p>\n

\u201cYou start out in 1954 by saying, \u2018Nigger, nigger, nigger,\u2019 \u201d said Atwater. \u201cBy 1968, you can\u2019t say \u2018nigger\u2019 \u2014 that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states\u2019 rights, and all that stuff. You\u2019re getting so abstract now [that] you\u2019re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you\u2019re talking about are totally economic things, and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Read his article, The Ugly Side of the G.O.P. – New York Times. Here is an excerpt: … Dr. Carolyn Goodman, a woman I was privileged to call a friend, died last month at the age of 91. She was the mother of Andrew Goodman, one of the three young civil rights activists shot to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1002,978,1001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-good-writing","category-politics","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}