White Supremacists, White Supremacy Quotes
He was driving through Tennessee and some white demonstrators were carrying racist signs insulting to Blacks. A companion asked what was the cause of Southern white racism.
He is wrong about his facts. At the time of the adoption of The Constitution, there were in the North some free Negroes who owned land and were able to vote—see Benjamin Banneker for one notable counter example. Another is Alexander Hamilton, one of whose parents were Black.
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.
Andrew Macdonald
The rich whites won the class war by splitting the poor and working class with race hatred and then coopting one half—the poor whites so that neither the poor whites or blacks obtained much and even into the 21st century the poor of the American South were the worst off of all the poor in America.
The title of this controversial poem became a rallying cry for imperialists and anti-imperialists both. The imperialists saw it as a justification for expansionism and colonialism—that the white had a moral responsibility to bring civilization to the other races. To the anti-imperialists it was a racist justification for imposing Christian values on the rest of the world which didn’t want them. In the quotation example here, the poem was used to state a dilemma of foreign aid and trying to bring democracy and freedom to the world.
Taft, very progressive on racial matters, was a little too optimistic. The “intelligent” Southerners were in the small minority. Only a week after Taft made this statement, Joseph Gorden, a Negro, was lynched outside Greenwood, Mississippi.
This classic quotation illustrates several things. First, the degree of racism that existed in 1944 in West Virginia. Second, not how young Robert Byrd immediately leaped from the possibility of integrating our fighting forces to interracial sex. That has been typical of white racism in America—a preoccupation with race and sex. Last, Byrd who became a member of the KKK, completely changed his mind over the year and ended up supporting the things that, as a youth were worse than the demise of the nation. He matured and grew on the race issue as much of the country did and ended as a strong supporter of equality and civil rights—including affirmative action.
Bilbo was one of the worst racists who ever served in the Congress.
