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🗓️ 25 September 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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How is it that the party of Lincoln became anathema to black voters? It's a messy story, exemplified in the doomed friendship between Richard Nixon and his fellow Republican, Jackie Robinson.

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0:00.0	The Democratic Party has fought against every major civil rights initiative and has a
0:06.4	long history of discrimination.
0:08.7	Listen, the Democrats are the party of the Ku Klux Klan.
0:11.2	The Democratic Party historically has been the party of white supremacy.
0:14.7	The Democratic Party of segregation, the party of the Ku Klux Klan.
0:17.3	We started the KKK.
0:18.3	That was the Democrat.
0:19.3	And how about you disabiles the Democratic Party, but even creating the KKK?
0:26.5	It is one of the most well-worn cladbacks in modern American politics.
0:31.1	How can people call Republicans racist when Democrats were the party of the KKK?
0:37.0	Today Republicans and Republican affiliated commentators like to say that Black folks abandoned
0:41.2	the party of Lincoln because they've been enticed by Democrats offering them all sorts
0:45.4	of delicious government handouts.
0:47.4	Well, that sounds like a dog whistle if I've ever heard of one.
0:49.7	It is not good, it's really not good.
0:51.5	No, it's not.
0:52.5	Republicans claiming Black voters abandoned the party of Lincoln to join the party of segregationists,
0:59.1	ignores a lot of the messy details and all the complicated things that we like to get
1:02.8	into on the pod.
1:03.8	But we shan't ignore those things because this is Coast Switch from MPR.
1:06.8	I'm Gene Demby.
1:07.8	And I'm Shrine Madisal Miraji.
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