Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see.
Moynihan was actually not the political originator of the "benign neglect" phrase which became so controversial. It had been first used by The Earl of Durham in his 1839 Durham Report on the English policy towards Canada.
After Lyndon Johnson led the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Republican’s reached out to the Southern Racists who felt betrayed by the Democratic Party, and their Southern Strategy succeeded so that the overt racists of the nation became Republicans instead of Democrats. At the same time, liberal Republicans felt estranged from the “party of Lincoln” and over the years the Republicans drive out the liberals and then the moderates. The racists and white Supremacists became more and more influential in setting the policies, norms and language of the party and soon White identity code phrases became part of much of the Republican rhetoric. This offended liberals, and Blacks. The Republican rhetoric became more and more extreme in order to get enough votes from white males and some whit females while that demographic was shrinking as a percentage of the U. S. population. Roy felt that this made for an enthusiastic and rabid base, but the Republicans could no longer produce a majority coalition, and had one victory of the presidency with only George W. Bush who actually last the popular vote but won in the Electoral College.
Anna Deavere Smith is an American actress, playwright, and professor. She is known for her roles as National Security Advisor Dr. Nancy McNally in The West Wing (2000–06), hospital administrator Gloria Akalitus in the Showtime series Nurse Jackie (2009–15), and as U.S. District Court Clerk Tina Krissman on the ABC show For the People (2018–19).
