“Jews will not replace us!” – Neo-Nazi and White Supremacists mob, Charlottesville 2017

By Glen Reaux

Racism, White Nationalism and White Supremacy in America is not a new or unique phenomenon.  If one were to take the time to take a long and hard look at the President’s party, one would find that “The Republican Party Is Institutionalized Racism and White Supremacist At Its Core.”  Proof of this lies in the party’s lack of diversity.  In August, Will Hurd, Representative from Texas and the only African-American Republican Congressman announced that he will be retiring from Congress.  Recently, so-called President Trump showed extreme contempt for the racial abuse that African-Americans have suffered at the hands of white-America by referring to the impeachment inquiry as a lynching.  Neither Trump nor the rest of America could ever imagine a white president dangling from a tree, hands tied behind his back with a noose around his neck and his genitals stuffed in his mouth.  The current philosophy of Donald Trump and his party is reminiscent of that of the founding fathers.  When speaking of racism and lynching, in the Constitution of the United States, Black People were considered to be three fifths of a human being.  Actually, when an entire race of people is relegated to being three fifths of a human being, that is a crime far worse that a lynching.  This designation of Black People being less than a whole human being is called The Three-Fifths Compromise and is found in Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution which reads:

Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.

Aside from being determined to be less than human, the effects of this constitutional clause also denied Black People the right to vote and representation since one had to be a whole-free-person to have that right.  To rectify this injustice, the nation had to fight the Civil War.  Truth be told, Lincoln’s motivation to fight the war and free the slaves was not based in morality.  It was based in economics and done as a means to save the nation by crippling the Confederate economy which collapsed without the economic advantage of slave labor.  Despite the declaration of the end of slavery by one of the greatest of American Presidents Abraham Lincoln, in reality, slavery did not end in this country until the end of WWII.  It was the implementation of the Tuskegee Experiment by FDR, which gave birth to the Tuskegee Airmen that really opened the door and affected change in America’s racist society.  The Tuskegee Airmen accomplished the impossible.  This elite all Black Fighter escort group, never lost a single bomber that was under their protection during WWII.   They proved through their military service, that Black People are as human as White People and in the most difficult of situations just as competent.  Their success as the greatest fighter wing in American Military history led to widespread desegregation of the U.S. military and other government jobs.

Until the hearts and minds of Americans were won by their heroic actions, although Blacks appeared to be free, Black people were still being lynched indiscriminately and suffered from the inhumanities of Jim Crow just as if the Civil War had never been fought and won by the North.  Despite the outcome of the Civil War, to this day, more than 250 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed on January 1, 1863, racism is alive and well.  Today it may not look the same but it has evolved and it still exists.  Through its evolutionary process, it progressed from slavery to Klanism, then the Jim Crow era of the early 20^th century, to open-defiance in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s-70s, followed by the Political Correct (PC) facade of the 1980s to the early 21^st century and finally under the Trump Administration, open-defiance and brutality under his direction which subsequently led to the vehicular murder of a woman protesting racism.  These are the evolutionary events of American Racism aka the Republican Party.

Under Trump and the Republican Party, we have gone backward in time to August 8, 1925, when the KKK paraded 40,000 members openly down the streets of Washington D.C., all of whom were dressed in full Klan regalia.   Similarly, on the night of August 11, 2017, a group of more than 300 white supremacists marched through the University of Virginia campus carrying tiki torches and chanting “White Lives Matter!  You will not replace us! Jews will not replace us!” They marched throughout the night while using a Nazi salute in protest of a group of civil rights activists that was meeting in the campus chapel.  The next day, members of this racist mob rioted in the streets opposing the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.  During the riot, a member of a white nationalist group, a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi plowed through a group of civil rights activist with a car injuring more than a dozen and killing a young woman.  In June of 2018, he was indicted for murder and hate crimes. The day after the riots, President Trump stated “I think there is blame on both sides.  And I have no doubt about it, and you don’t have any doubt about it either.”  To blame a civil rights murder victim for being murdered by a white nationalist is both idiotic and racist.  But, such behavior is neither out of character for Trump or the Republican Party.

The title of this article, “American Racism aka Republican Party” may seem a bit harsh but at Explicit News our goal is to provide an unvarnished “factual look behind the curtain” and here are the facts.  Since the early 20^th century nearly every Republican Party President has tolerated racism, supported racism and or implemented racist policies.  The exception to this Republican rule was Gerald Ford who openly condemned racism in his college days.  He defended a Black football team member against the racist policies of the University of Michigan which supported Jim Crow laws.  Former President Ford threatened to quit the team if his friend and roommate Willis Ward were to be benched in games against southern teams.  Ward was a famous sprinter that had bested Olympic Champion Jesse Owens in a track meet.

Photo courtesy of University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library

To chronicle America’s truth about racism in our lifetime, we can start with incidents stemming from the early 20^th century which is a time period when our grandfathers and great grandfathers were young.  Some of them are still alive today and can give testimony to the incidents of the following Presidents.  Of particular interest is President Calvin Coolidge.  From 1923-1929 Republican President Calvin Coolidge served in office and during his tenure he proposed the formation of a government council to address racial issues in America.  But not unlike Republican Presidents that have followed him, his actions spoke volumes as to what was really in his heart.  In the first nationally broadcast State of The Union Address in history, on December 26, 1923, he emphasized: “America must be kept American.” Just a few months later on May24, 1924 he signed into law the Immigration Act of 1924 ¹ which included the Asian Exclusion Act and National Origins Act.  The law which was co-sponsored by Washington Congressman and eugenicist Albert Jonson banned all immigration from the Asian-Pacific-Triangle, it placed limitations on Italians, Jews, Greeks and Slavs.  Much like Trump’s Muslim ban, it prohibited Muslims from legally migrating to this country and it also severely limited the immigration to America by Africans.  Just as horrifying were his actions that came straight out of the slavery playbooks of the old south.  During the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927, most White communities were saved while Black riverside communities were flooded to reduce the pressure on the levees.  Reminiscent of slavery, thousands of Black flood victims were forced to work for their food rations while being threatened with gun violence by the National Guard and area farmers.  These actions resulted in an onslaught of mass beatings, lynchings, and rapes.

In handling disasters, President George W. Bush followed in Coolidge’s footsteps.  In response to the flooding of New Orleans (a predominantly Black city) caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Bush administration’s FEMA handling of the disaster caused critical delays in aid and relief for victims of the flood.  No such delays have ever been experienced by predominantly White cities that suffered disasters.  In a uniquely racist law designed to damage the futures of children of color, President Bush implemented his No Child Left Behind Act ² (NCLBA) in 2002.  The law placed a stranglehold of culturally biased and racially insensitive standardized testing on America’s poor and ethnically disadvantaged children.  NCLBA created financial policies that decreased funding to schools when students were struggling or not making improvements on tests, thus privately leaving the neediest students of color behind.  The provision of the Law were never funded by congress  and Bush made no attempt to get them funded.

President George W. Bush is proof that “the apple does not fall far from the tree.”  His father, George Herbert Walker Bush preceded him to the office of the Presidency.  In one of the most blatant acts of racism in American politics, his 1988 presidential campaign featured the Willie Horton television commercial³.  Considered by advertising professionals to be the father of dog whistle, political, attack-ads, the commercial attacked Democratic Party opponent Mike Dukakis as being soft on crime by featuring Willie Horton, an African America convicted of murder and of terrorizing a young white couple and raping the woman while out on a prison furlough.  These actions had nothing to do with then Governor Dukakis of Massachusetts.  The commercial was so frightening to White Americans that it cost Dukakis the election.  This tactic of using racial dog whistles is a specialty of Donald Trump.

Other racist events in Bush senior’s life include his denouncement of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 when he was running for a Texas Senatorial seat.  He proclaimed his opponent to be “radical” for supporting the bill that ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination.

Ronald Reagan, often considered by Republicans to be the Greatest American President of all times was by far, one of the most racist.  His racist policies, opposition and attempts to block civil rights legislation was inhumane at the very least.  The actor Ronald Reagan began to make his transformation to politician in the 1960s.  During this turbulent time in our nation’s history, Reagan openly opposed all civil rights legislation which included the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.  Reagan continued his racism via his administration’s policies.  As president, he gutted the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), fought the extension of the Voting Rights Act, vetoed the Civil Rights Restoration Act (which required all recipients of federal funds to comply with civil rights laws) and opposed the creation of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.  He vetoed the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act, which imposed economic sanctions on South Africa that could only be lifted when that country abolished apartheid.  Also, Reagan openly labeled anti-apartheid groups like the African National Congress as Communistic.  Like other Republican presidents before him, he did not openly consider himself to be a racist and feigned he insult on the matter.  But fortunately, his actions speak volumes to the contrary.

In further support of the argument that the Republican Party is synonymous with racism, is the case of the disgraced 37^th president, Richard Milhous Nixon infamous for his “I am not a crook” exclamation.  He was forced out of office due to his Watergate crimes and immediately pardoned by his Vice President and successor, Gerald Ford.  Nixon implemented what would become known as the Southern Strategy which refers to a Republican Party’s electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to their racist ideologies against southern African Americans. The civil rights movement led to the dismantling of Jim Crow laws in the 1950s and 1960s and frightened southern Whites who felt betrayed by the Democratic Party.  Key to their belief of betrayal was the Johnson administration’s support for civil rights through legislation and the use of the National Guard for enforcement of Johnson’s policies and laws.  These southern Whites felt disenfranchised from the party and became known as Dixiecrats.  Richard Nixon’s strategies successfully contributed to the political realignment of many White, conservative voters in the South and converted them to the Republican Party.  Due to this strategy, the Republican Party through its annexation of the Dixiecrats became more overtly racist.  This led to their conclusion that they would never be able to convert more than 20% of the Black population to their party, so their rights did not matter.

In all things, leadership matters, especially with the Republican Party.  Leadership is top-down and is most often emulated by followers.  Such is the case with Donald Trump and his far-right, white supremacist, white nationalist, neo-Nazi and extremely racist base.  Proof of his racism is listed below

1. In 1973, Trump and his company Trump Management were sued by the U.S. Department of Justice for housing discrimination against black renters—a lawsuit which, according to Trump, he settled without an admission of guilt.
2. During an Oval Office, discussion on immigration trump stated “Why are we having all these people from shit-hole countries come here?” in reference to Haiti, El Salvador and African nations. Trump then suggested that the U.S. try to increase immigration from countries like Norway.
3. In launching his 2016 Presidential campaign Trump spoke of Mexican immigrants “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people”.
4. On August 25, 2017, Donald Trump pardoned former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio who had been convicted two months earlier for disobeying a federal judge’s order to stop racial profiling in detaining “individuals suspected of being in the U.S. illegally. The U. S. Department of Justice concluded that illegal tactics that Arpaio was using included “extreme racial profiling and sadistic punishments that involved the torture, humiliation, and degradation of Latino inmates.”
5. In an August 2017, Virginia rally to oppose the removal of the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, which included white supremacists, white nationalists, neo-Confederates, Klans-men and neo-Nazis, a civil rights activist was killed when a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi ran her down with his car. Some of the racist protestors chanted racist and anti-Semitic slogans, carried Nazi flags, Confederate battle flags, anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic banners, and semi-automatic rifles.  President Trump did not denounce the white nationalists and KKK members. He instead condemned “hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides” after which he followed up with “very fine people on both sides.”  In essence, he equated civil rights activists to the neo-Nazi murderer of an innocent woman.
6. A recently published report by the Leadership Council on Civil and Human Rights,  a detailed list of the Trump Administration roll-back of civil and human rights policies, directives and Executive Actions is provided.  The report is titled Trump Administration Civil and Human Rights Rollbacks⁴.  It itemizes all of his racist, discriminatory and oppressive actions in chronological order.

It is common knowledge although often forgotten or neglected by educators that since the formation of this country, unlike Gerald Ford many American President were slave owners, rapist of their female slaves, fathers of the children born as a consequence of these inhuman actions and at the very least monstrous racists.  The forbidden or unspoken word of today’s more civilized form of racism is nigger.  Nigger is a 17^th-century form of the Latin adjective niger which means black.  This simple adjective which denoted a color was developed by 17^th-century slave traders and slave owners into a weapon used to demean, brainwash, dehumanize and enslave human beings whose only difference was the dark color of their skin.  Because of their ignorance of the word, an alternative spelling to niger became nigger and its meaning changed from a description of color to a description of what slave owners would proclaim as the most disgusting, wretched, ignorant, lazy, deceitful animal that was a subspecies of humanity, Black people were inhuman niggers.

Over the past 300 years since its inception, the meaning of the word nigger despite its foolish and misconstrued use by rap artist and pop culture, has not changed.  So, our more civilized form of an American racist society refers to it as unspeakable, hence the more palatable designation of the “n-word.”  Referring to the word nigger as the “n-word” is an insult to the suffering that ethnic minorities in particular Black People have endured in this country.  The “n-word” should be unspeakable because it helps to desensitize American society to the inhumanity of racism.  It helps people forget what nigger stands for.  If the word nigger were used more often in debate and intelligent discourse, it could possibly inspire outrage and create such disgust that a change in America’s tolerance of racism could be affected in a positive way.  If the Republican Party is led by racists, tolerates the actions of racists, implements racist policies or proposes racist laws, it is racist.  If you follow racist leaders you are a racist.   If the Republican Party does these things under the guise of “Make America Great Again”, then it is the epitome of racism, hence American Racism aka Republican Party.  The proof has been provided and there is no argument that could prove otherwise.  So, let’s get real!  If you don’t think you are a racist, if you have Black friends or family members and you support the Republican Party regardless of your rationale, once you examine the Republican facts you must come to the conclusion, that you are a racist.  There is doubt about it.  You are a racist!

Sadly, the Republican Masters of the Universe, in their institutionalized racism campaigns have left victims on both sides of the racial divide.  Neo-Nazis, Klansmen, White Nationalists, White Supremacist and other alt-right organizations have been used as pawns-in-the-game of Republican Party, elitist monopoly and world domination.  Their elitist Republican advocates only manipulate and use them to obtain their own self-perpetuating goals of runaway capitalism and corporatism which may eventually lead to America becoming a fascist state.  Due to their less-than-desirable socioeconomic status and indignity of their actions, when compared to the elite, these American goose-steppers are doomed to suffer the cannon fodder fate of their Confederate or Nazi ancestor and heroes which is a very ugly death on the battlefield.  In reality, in the eyes of their racist and wealthy Republican Party masters, these blinded-by-hate, alt-right soldiers for democracy and racial purity marching under the banner of “Make America Great Again” are considered to be the same as Black people and other ethnic minorities, just chattel to do their masters bidding.  In their masters eyes, they are just another bunch of disposable niggers, niggers and more niggers.  And, they are too stupid to see it!

However, because of the American so-called idyllic image, our nation’s racist history of crimes against humanity is whitewashed.  This results in America often being viewed through rose-colored glasses.  Since these crimes have been buried by historians, it is left up to you to discover today’s truth about American Racism aka the Republican Party, through your own eyes and experiences.  Chronicle this truth throughout your lifetime and provided a much needed, accurate journal for your family and future generations.  That is the only way to stop racism in America.

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Linked Sources and Documentation

1. Immigration Act of 1924 – pdf

2. No Child Left Behind Act – pdf

3. Willie Horton TV commercial – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io9KMSSEZ0Y

4. Trump Administration Civil and Human Rights Rollbacks –https://civilrights.org/trump-rollbacks/

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