Racial Politics Quotes
This was art of the Nixon "Southern Strategy" to alienate the white supremacists and racists from the Democratic Party with Civil Rights legislation and rhetoric, and get most of them to become Republicans. But as Phillips observed, when Negroes began voting in significant numbers in the South the party switching really accelerated.
Then Senator Biden, commenting on the 1991 nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court by President Bush.
While President Barack Obama was primarily frequently insulted by white conservatives, black left-wingers also went after him.