SC Senator Tim Scott, Trump and Atwater's ":Nigger Memo"
I had a good chat with Intern Jim of Greenville SC and SC GOP Senator Tim Scott's DC office this morning. I told him to look for this blog posted on Bakari Sellers facebook wall hoping it may add fodder to CNN conversation tonight about Trump's meeting with SC's Black Republican Senator Tim Scott.
Front and Center should be some truth and reconciliation conversation about Lee Atwater's 1980 Nigger Memo as framed in the easily googled Monuments, Traitors, Religion Dispatches piece. The Atwater memo is also key to the theme of Wuthnow's Rough Country book on Baptist fundamentalists and how they shaped the modern Republican Party.
Here is Atwater's strategy and memo
http://tinyurl.com/htga5br
Atwater begat Rove with help of Nixon's Southern Strategist Harry Dent, aided and abetted with the fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention and left over Birchers like Pressler, Helms, Criswell and Albert Lee Smith, and Rove begat Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller and Sessions and Here We are in Trump Land.
Former Ga Gov Roy Barnes said it was Atwater's Dream to have every blue collar white man in the south go in a voting booth and have a choice between a white Republican and a Black Democrat. Here in Bama Mike Hubbard's gerrymandering with help of Kobach's 2009 immigration bill that Methodist Bishop Willimon compared to the fugitive slave law; well the point is with Tucker Carlson's baiting of ESPN last night and Rob Lee on The View with Whoopi Goldberg on Monday, Nick Saban of the Crimson Tide and SEC Commish Greg Sankey are about to get in the conversation and There Goes the Neighborhood.
Almost no staff that I talked to from the Bama and SC Delegation have read Devil's Bargain, nor Hochschild's Strangers in Their Own Country.
This white boy from the Bi racial Committee of 1971 in Gaffney SC is concerned. I served with a Miss Gaffney, a daughter of a prominent Doctor for whom the Football field was named, Charles Foster soon to be in the Montreal Olympics, and Grady Sizemore, whose son was consensus best MLB player of the first decade of 21st Century, Grady Jr with the Indians.
Ive read Joe Crespino's Strom Thurmond's America. I'm ready to go on CNN and talk with Bakari Sellers about Trump's meeting with Tim Scott.
Miss Gaffney, my friend mighta been on the Teacher on the Month Committee. It's all there in The Cherokeean.
PS Whoopi was in that movie with Gaffney native Andie Macdowell by that dude who I think did Nashville, Altman. Whoopi was great and proud to see Andie too.
Related content:
https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2017/09/ta-nehisi-coates-george-packer-white-president/539976/
Front and Center should be some truth and reconciliation conversation about Lee Atwater's 1980 Nigger Memo as framed in the easily googled Monuments, Traitors, Religion Dispatches piece. The Atwater memo is also key to the theme of Wuthnow's Rough Country book on Baptist fundamentalists and how they shaped the modern Republican Party.
Here is Atwater's strategy and memo
http://tinyurl.com/htga5br
Atwater begat Rove with help of Nixon's Southern Strategist Harry Dent, aided and abetted with the fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention and left over Birchers like Pressler, Helms, Criswell and Albert Lee Smith, and Rove begat Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller and Sessions and Here We are in Trump Land.
Former Ga Gov Roy Barnes said it was Atwater's Dream to have every blue collar white man in the south go in a voting booth and have a choice between a white Republican and a Black Democrat. Here in Bama Mike Hubbard's gerrymandering with help of Kobach's 2009 immigration bill that Methodist Bishop Willimon compared to the fugitive slave law; well the point is with Tucker Carlson's baiting of ESPN last night and Rob Lee on The View with Whoopi Goldberg on Monday, Nick Saban of the Crimson Tide and SEC Commish Greg Sankey are about to get in the conversation and There Goes the Neighborhood.
Almost no staff that I talked to from the Bama and SC Delegation have read Devil's Bargain, nor Hochschild's Strangers in Their Own Country.
This white boy from the Bi racial Committee of 1971 in Gaffney SC is concerned. I served with a Miss Gaffney, a daughter of a prominent Doctor for whom the Football field was named, Charles Foster soon to be in the Montreal Olympics, and Grady Sizemore, whose son was consensus best MLB player of the first decade of 21st Century, Grady Jr with the Indians.
Ive read Joe Crespino's Strom Thurmond's America. I'm ready to go on CNN and talk with Bakari Sellers about Trump's meeting with Tim Scott.
Miss Gaffney, my friend mighta been on the Teacher on the Month Committee. It's all there in The Cherokeean.
PS Whoopi was in that movie with Gaffney native Andie Macdowell by that dude who I think did Nashville, Altman. Whoopi was great and proud to see Andie too.
Related content:
https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2017/09/ta-nehisi-coates-george-packer-white-president/539976/
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