Study finds white Republicans rank highest on scale of racism | Miami Herald
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Via: jbb • 2 years ago • 116 commentsBy: Leonard Pitts Jr. (Miami Herald)
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By Leonard Pitts Jr.
Updated September 30, 2022 4:44 PM Jae C. Hong AP Photo
Tell us something we don't know.
Maybe that's an ungenerous way to respond to a study on an important social issue by a respected, non-partisan think tank. But, if you've been paying any attention at all, that may be your instinctive reaction to last week's report from the Washington-based Public Religion Research Institute quantifying that Republicans, as a corporate body, are the most racist folks there are.
In other news, water is necessary for life and Aretha Franklin was a pretty good singer.
Indeed, it's amusing — or maybe "appalling" is the better word — to note that the report was issued only days after a white man appointed by Florida's Republican governor Ron DeSantis as a commissioner in the state's only majority-Black county, abruptly resigned when pictures surfaced that seemed to show him wearing the white robe and pointy hood of the Ku Klux Klan. It also came just after Rolling Stone, citing "Confidence Man," New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman's new book about Donald Trump, reported an episode in which the 45th president, while hosting a reception for congressional leaders, "turned to a row of racially diverse Democratic staffers" and asked them to bring the hors d'oeuvres.
In other words, an ordinary week for the GOP.
The study used 11 questions to tease out respondents' racial attitudes and construct what it called a "Structural Racism Index" scale. The median score on that scale, which runs from 0 to 1, was 0.45. For Democrats, it was 0.27, for independents, 0.45. But for Republicans, it leaped to 0.67. In fact, no matter how they diced up the respondents by party and race, no other group ranked nearly as high. "Republicans" and "white Republicans" — terms that are functionally redundant — tied for the lead. In second place at 0.58? "Republicans of other races."
Again, this is hardly shocking. From the party's scramble to keep Black people from voting, to its performative cruelty toward South American refugees, to its embrace of the most brazenly racist president since Woodrow Wilson, Republican bigotry has long been self-evident.
It is past time for the rest of us to face it, yet one still hears people, even at this late date, even in the face of multiple studies to the contrary, ascribe its descent into its current madness to economic stress. But that just ain't so.
They have become what they are specifically because some of us are panicked at the thought of Black people, brown people, LGBTQ people, Muslim people and other historically disfavored people coming to visibility and power, and the GOP realized that catering to that resentment was a way to win votes. And also because there is no principle they will not abandon in doing so.
Muscular foreign policy? They make kissy faces at totalitarian regimes.
Support for law enforcement? Not when the laws are being enforced against Trump.
Street riots? They hate them — unless the street is Pennsylvania Ave. and the rioters are MAGA.
The one principle they will not compromise is the protection of straight, white hegemony. That's why, in the words of a satirical old Randy Newman song, "keepin' the n------- down" is pretty much the whole Republican platform. This is something the rest of us need to face promptly and squarely if we are to have any hope of understanding — much less fixing — what's wrong with this country. What the PRRI report quantified is damning and sad, yes. But here's one thing it isn't.
It isn't surprising in the least.
This story was originally published September 30, 2022, 1:55 PM.
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"Now tell us something we did not already know".
in other breaking news, water is wet...
The gop has low opinions of Black America!
It is why they are overwhelming Democrats.
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A white women just got 5 million because she said someone called her a liar, democrats just said African Americans are only worth 1.2 million for a life time of oppression, democrats no longer thing African Americans are worth 2/3's of whites, they think they are worth less than a 1/4. How racist can you get?
That judgement against Trump was two million dollars for the sexual assault and three million for character assassination.
Your take on it is Russian propaganda...
Crafted to divide America and its voters.
To help Trump and the gop, like in 2016!
Interesting meme ..... spot on .....
So democrats only think they are only worth a 1/3, that is so much better.
You forgot that they also forced them to bear children.
Nobody forces anyone to bear children, is that the latest talking point?
Yet, look who gets points for taunting?
And, on my own article...
Are you claiming that slaves were not forced to give birth to their master's bastards???
A female slave ran at about $1,000. Get her pregnant and the kid was a freebie, before long you could write her off.
Deflection fail.
The most racist places in the US are democrat controlled, just like the south was under Jim Crow laws, democrats moved North and to nobodies surprise racism moved with them.
Most Racist Cities in America 2023 (worldpopulationreview.com)
The racist past of the Democrat party is a history that can't be erased or covered up. It continues to this day.
The racist in gop today are the topic for today!
Do white supremacists vote Democratic now?
This is why you want to talk about olde times...
Not only do they vote democrat, they have been 2 out of the last 3 democrat presidents.
Really?
Yes Really, I would provide proof but you would just deny the Klansman really meant it. or would deflect.
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Nobody cares about the gop's crapola about Democrats from over 50 yrs ago.
It is an insult to everyone's intelligence.
It amounts to dishonesty and to trolling...
No wonder they use it every damn time!
Amazes me some can't seem to grasp simple things.
Of course the party of hate has to throw shade and blame at others. It is all they have.
The gop can't help showing their racist asses.
Just another baseless and untrue accusation
Just read the conservative's comments!
The gop keeps proving they are racists...
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Glad that you are finally able to see the democrats for what they are.
Remember when the republican candidate for President said that African American women weren't smart enough to raise their own kids?
Remember when republicans said that African Americans weren't smart enough to get ID's to vote
Remember when republicans said that African Americans couldn't get into college without their help?
Remember when republicans said African Americans couldn't get jobs without their help?
Remember when a republican president candidate said if you didn't vote for me you aren't black?
Those things happened never from republicans, they are all from the party of the klan.
Now we wait for the brainwashed fool to come along and say they switched places in the 60's, but they will have no proof because there isn't any. Just like the Russia collusion bullshit the low functioning bought hook line and sinker.
Denial is all you have.
Let him babble on and on. It isn't working!
The republican way. Make up their own facts.
Yes, basically anti-American propaganda!
Well, you can never provide credible facts. Do you expect lies to go unchallenged?
Don't forget the projection and deflection thingy
Your hate campaign isn't working.
When you're in a hole, stop digging.
I post documented fact and you claim it's denial? Holy crap the level of denial you are operating under is amazing.
Documented fact... Hahaha
Look in the mirror, you’ll see real denial if your eyes are open.
If you all actually believe affirmative action and other measures were put in place just to say Black people were stupid...
There is really nothing more I can say, except our public education is failing...
Which one do you deny?
The sad thing is you really believe the shit you posted.
You automatically lose the debate with comments like that.
Liberals who are in denial about the hate and discord being sown by the Democrat party are in ..... well ..... denial.
What are you even talking about. There is no debate against alternative facts.
If you agree with George's take on things, you really do not understand the measures or why they were put into place.
Do you lack the courage to point out which one is false?
It's not a "take" Do democrats not say that there should be different criteria for African Americans to get into college?
Do demcorats not say that voter ID effects minorities more than whites? why is that?
Did biden not say, if you don't vote for me you ain't black? Exactly which one of those things do you dispute?
Then you will have no problem proving that wrong.
Wasting time on bullshit is exactly that.
documented fact is supported by verifiable data such as news links or research
you don't have that
That's an odd way of saying that you CAN'T prove anything in 5.2 wrong, [deleted]
So you are another one that believes measures like affirmative action was only put in place because people thought Black people were stupid.
Get real...
I'd agree with you but then we would both would be wrong. Maybe you should research the statements and questions in 5.2 so you can "attempt" to prove them wrong.
Remember, you are the one that stated:
So do something very few leftist's have done and proved the "real facts"
Not people, democrats, why else would democrats change the qualifications for African Americans? Are you saying that the liberal heads of colleges are racist?
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Video of Biden telling African Americans you ain't black.
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Biden in the debate talking about African American women.
We bring social workers into homes and parents to help them deal with how to raise their children. It’s not want they don’t want to help. They don’t—they don’t know quite what to do!
Fucking racist thinks African American women don't know what to do when raising their own children.
'Racism that is still respectable': Biden attacked over 'record player' remark about black parents | Washington Examiner
Voter ID laws discriminate against racial and ethnic minorities, new study reveals
Voter ID laws discriminate against racial and ethnic minorities, new study reveals (phys.org)
Isn't it strange that these liberal democrats don't think Whites have an issue getting ID's but it's those "Minorities" that democrats feel that are somehow inferior.
You can let me know that you have ignored these links and facts before i give you more that you won't admit exist.
Nah...I like to bat your around and make you do your homework.
But good job! You managed to back up your claims. That's more than some can do around here
No, he did. He provided the links for his comments in
I give credit where credit is due.I'm proud of him
The only thing he showed was a study showing voter id impacts minority communities, not sure why he posted that, and rants on Biden.
I didn't look at his links. I was trying to bolster his ego
Anyone ever tell you, you were too nice. Haha
I'm actually quite evil
I never did...
The Dems are the party of hate and intolerance. If you follow the news there is evidence of it every day....
Yep. The banning books and hating the LBGTQ community seems to be emanating from them...s/
The left is heavily into book banning and exploits the LBGTQ for political purposes.
Its not so much that Republicans are racist, its that a lot of conservatives are.
There was a time when many conservatives were Democrats, but thats not really true any more.
Illinois is a hot bed of racists. I guess that is why they have so many republicans in charge.
Conservatives were kicked out of the Democrat party for not being "woke" enough; not buying into the bankrupting Democrat Green Agenda; and for not being perpertually aggrieved.
Bullshit! Nixon's "Southern Strategy" was to welcome racists into the gop's "Big Tent"...
And there they've abided ever since 1972!
Wrong, Nixons southern strategy was to give the non-klansman a place to go, that's why all the racist democrats like Bird Clinton wallace etc. stayed democrats. The south gets less racist by year with republicans in charge as the old democrats die off, and the North controlled by democrats is where all the racist cities are now.
Forgot Jesse Helm and Strom Thurmond?
Nixons strategy failed, all the racists stayed democrats.
That is absolutely true. Some people are so ignorant, or so caught up in their phony propaganda, they have no idea what the history and truth are.
Exactly, it was OK when it was a Dem Southern Strategy.
That would be your opinion.
Do you deny that Dems courted the Southern vote?
What has that got to do with anything? Drinker trolled "it was OK when it was a Dem Southern Strategy", and I highlighted that in his opinion it was OK. Try to follow.
However, since you are apparently unaware of the pertinent history, and seemingly incapable of doing the research, you can start with learning about what happened when the Democratic Party included a civil rights plank in the party's 1948 platform, which caused a group of southern Democrats to disassociate from the Democratic Party and form the States' Rights Party. Hubert Humphrey, a Democrat from Minnesota who you may have never heard of, led the floor fight during the convention for inclusion of the civil rights plank.
Why do you think "it was OK" for either party to employ a strategy that panders to segregationists? You did say "it was OK when it was a Dem Southern Strategy".
Democrats demand we teach an accurate history as long as we don’t tell African Americans that they were/are the slave holders and party of the klan.
Do you think that all Americans don’t deserve representation?
Who was it that said they were going to lose the south for generations.
The President of the party who kept it for 30 years.
As KEvin Williamson wrote:
Who said it? Cause believe me, he was right if he was a Democrat. The South has turned solid republican.
LBJ. He got it exactly wrong. He said democrats lost the south for a generation. In reality, They retained the majority of the southern seats until the 90s. Republicans didn’t “win” the south for 30 years.
Just because it didn't happen immediately doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Forget what the party was called at that particular time.
Conservatives owned the slaves.
Liberals ran the underground railroad.
It's highly disingenuous to pretend otherwise.
Careful George, one might think that you were just here to troll.
But his prediction was completely wrong and the flip had nothing to do with the civil rights act. It’s like predicting the Steelers to win the super bowl this year because of Kenny Pickett and taking credit for when they do it in 2055 with a completely different roster.
I think he understood exactly what he was saying. The time line only lays out certain aspects.
Do I think the act was the only reason? Of course not. The parties slowly changed over time. One can pretend or try to blame one certain area yet I think most would come to the conclusion that the ideologies of both parties changed over the last half century.
I have to add another reason I think it began in the 60's. That is when the hippies decided they wanted to join the Dem party and take it over.
Damn hippies.
That was the Yippies not the hippies.
Do I think the act was the only reason? Of course not
i agree. I’ve had this discussion at least,50 times on this site with people claiming, it was.
Both parties changed over the last half century.
yes, and no. FDR and the democrats were the progressives 100 years ago.
That's right, my bad. Most of the hippies couldn't find their way to the polls.
"There was a time when many conservatives were Democrats, but thats not really true any more."
The Democrats are now the party of the extreme left. They evidence is right in front of them, but their denial is deep and wide
Compared to MAGA Reagan was in the far left!
... and Republicans of the extreme right leaving Independents of the extreme center making y'all extremists.
Racism does not have a fixed party affiliation. It might be wise in these days of pendulum division to stop blaming one side or the other. As a nation you are tearing yourself apart and it is truly sad to watch.
Agree, racists in both Parties and of all colors. We’ve gotten good at tearing ourselves apart.
Agreed. Wish we could get as good at putting ourselves back together.
That's the curse of being number 1.
You may need a third party to do that but it will need to start on the local/state level, not the national level where the denizens are cannibals.
Russia has gotten good at tearing ourselves apart.
Putin's propaganda machine now owns the GOP.
I disagree. I think at this point in time they're all cannibals, and with the amount of money that the two can bring, the only way to bring a third party in is at the national level.