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In reply to the discussion: White People Think One Black Person's Success Proves Racism Is Over [View all]JustAnotherGen
(38,079 posts)Remember the 'lyin African'?
The birth certificate?
The MuslimSocialFascist?
One thing is different between Clinton and Obama - 9/11. Which opened the door for their hatred towards ALL brown people.
What's most significant - those of us born after the civil rights movement -
Ask us how our parents were/are shocked that we'd ever have to live through this? What they lived through? I know my dad was. And he was the black guy that voted for Nixon in 1968. He never thought he'd see the vitriol again.
He also expressed to me two days before he died that the only things he regretted missing was my wedding (I got married 6 months after he passed) and the Clintons totally leaving politics. He was waiting for the day Clinton punched Newt in the mouth for calling his wife a bitch.
Love him or hate him - that was my dad!
As for the Nixon thing - that was par for the course - Affluent southern black that was a Military Officer with a college education who came from a long line of Southern Republicans. I know his dad (born and raised and lived except for his years at Morehouse) first crossed over to vote D in 1964.
This Republican party would never ever want my grandfather to vote for them. Never in a million years. They hate poor blacks - they hate handed down wealth blacks even more. Because we are the perfect example of folks who have intergenerational wealth that came in SPITE of America not accepting our ancestors as full citizens - who can see how they - the Republican Party - they now don't accept us as full citizens.
I know you don't want to believe that and I accept that - but I see harsh vitriolic racists - and they live and breath and die in the Republican Party. Wake up and smell the enemy.