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To clarify, I meant the story that I told in this thread, not the story that I was told as a child.
Not a claim I made.
I don't see how that is relevant to the issue. which is whether the Democratic Party is "the real racist party" today. Just because statute-topplers are morons who make moronic claims does not mean that is it ok for us to do so.
I have no patience for claims of racism in general, and specifically not for claims that "Republicans are racist," but it is very clear that that parties have changed on issues of relevance to African Americans. In 1960, if you were a real honest-to-goodness racist, you were almost voted Democratic. Today, you almost certainly vote Republican. (I am of course assuming two parties). The Democratic Party tends to support affirmative action, while the Republican Party tends to oppose it. The Democratic Party appoints judges who tend to reign in police civil liberties violations; the Republican Party appoints judges who are "law and order" judges who tend to do the opposite. Etc, etc. This has been true for thirty years
The fact of the matter is that the Democratic Party, at least, is a vastly different party on these issues than it was 70 years ago. In contrast, the Republican Party, has drifted in the other direction. More generally, once upon a time the Republican Party was the more liberal party, not just on race, but on many other issues; meanwhile, the Democratic Party was the more conservative party, especially on race. That is obviously no longer the case.
Did not quite say you did. What I am claiming is that it is a very common understanding of events, and the first comment of yours that I replied to was in that ballpark.
I think we're into 3 or 4 different issues, talking past each other, and I have a feeling that if I go into responses for a bunch of the parts of the next two paragraphs I have problems with, it's going to keep happening.
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