99 - More GOP Racism: "Vote Caging" To Prevent African-Americans From Exercising Their Right To Vote

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🗓️ 21 June 2007

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Today we're going to discuss yet another example of GOP racism: their recent attempts to disenfranchise African-American voters.The modern day Republican Party is not the party of Lincoln. Quite the opposite.Modern day Republicans don't walk around in Ku Klux Klan robes. But the GOP has engaged in a decades-old and still ongoing massive and intense effort to prevent African Americans from voting.

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0:00.0	Greetings, this is Podcast No. 99 of Blast the Right.
0:23.9	I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRatical.com, www.TheRationalRatical.com.
0:31.0	Today we're going to discuss yet another example of GOP racism, their recent attempts to disenfranchise
0:39.0	African-American voters, let's get right into it.
0:43.4	My sources are, and there are many, democracynow.org, and thanks to them for the audio I use here,
0:50.6	GregPalice.com, an interview with GregPalice on 10ZenMonkeys.com, common dreams.org, USA Today,
0:59.2	MSNBC, Slate.com, The Nation magazine, The New York Times, The St. Petersburg Times,
1:05.3	an LA Times story carried by the Sydney Morning Herald, thinkprogress.org, and The Washington
1:11.5	Post.
1:13.2	The modern day Republican Party is not the party of Lincoln, quite the opposite.
1:19.6	Modern day Republicans don't walk around in Ku Klux Klan robes, but the GOP has engaged
1:26.2	in a decade's old and still ongoing, massive end in 10th effort to prevent African-Americans
1:32.4	from voting, so Republicans might as well be walking around in Ku Klux Klan robes.
1:38.8	The present day GOP doesn't burn crosses, it throws African-Americans off the voter rolls.
1:47.4	Before we get into what the GOP did in the 2004 presidential election, you really have
1:52.6	to understand where the GOP is coming from.
1:57.5	Starting in 1968 with Richard Nixon, the Republican Party employed what was dubbed the Southern
2:04.0	Strategy.
2:05.6	It was designed to attract the votes of whites who were upset that the Democrats had lent
2:11.2	their support to civil and voting rights for African-Americans.
2:15.8	This is not something right-wingers can deny.
2:19.1	The late Lee Atwater was the grand-pappy of all Republican dirty campaign strategists.
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