Re: GEORGIA:roseofjulyNovember 7 2012, 01:40:34 UTC
Yeah, I noted that too.
I'm currently reading A People's History of the United States, and Zinn notes how landowning whites during the nineteenth century were in a pickle - they didn't want poor whites to band together with black people and start rebelling against the capitalistic order of the day, so they basically started playing up racism. THey started emphasizing what they believed were God-ordained differences between blacks and whites, and started hiring poor whites in positions of power over black people - overseers, that kind of thing. They also deliberately gave more rights to poor whites than blacks. This effectively created a wedge of separation between white people and black folks, and even the poor whites felt more solidarity with landowning whites than the poor blacks who were in the same predicament as them. That whole "country of embarrassed millionnaires" thing
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I completely agree with you, actually. That makes a lot of sense. We've seen the Republicans divide people the past 20 years (the ones when I remember the most). I've seen it time and time again here. You can see the way they play into women ("slut" by Rush, implying good girls would never need birth control) and a way of making a woman feel better on the backs of another. So using race is much easier because it's a more tangible truth in warped view. It's just as dirty and wrong, but easier.
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I'm currently reading A People's History of the United States, and Zinn notes how landowning whites during the nineteenth century were in a pickle - they didn't want poor whites to band together with black people and start rebelling against the capitalistic order of the day, so they basically started playing up racism. THey started emphasizing what they believed were God-ordained differences between blacks and whites, and started hiring poor whites in positions of power over black people - overseers, that kind of thing. They also deliberately gave more rights to poor whites than blacks. This effectively created a wedge of separation between white people and black folks, and even the poor whites felt more solidarity with landowning whites than the poor blacks who were in the same predicament as them. That whole "country of embarrassed millionnaires" thing ( ... )
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"We can now project Georgia for Mitt Romney"
We all laughed
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