First and foremost, the Republicans have used dogwhistles to make it clear to the racists they are on their side "welfare queens", "thugs", "states rights", the message is laid down and picked up just fine.
As Lee Atwater said: "You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say "nigger"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger." "
Because you can't legally write a law that explicitly targets black people, the Republicans have found work arounds. Some of it is obvious stuff, like fighting affirmative action and gutting the Voting Rights Act". Some of it is a bit more subtle like ADAA in 1986 treating the form of cocaine used predominantly by black people as a significantly worse offense than the kind used by white people. Or using laws to strip felons of their vote along with the grotesque overpolicing, overcharging, and oversentencing of black mean to disenfranchise large numbers of them. All things made possible by supposedly colorblind "tough on crime" legislation that allows for more severe charges for similar crimes and permit police more and more leeway for abuse.
Of course they intentionally cutting programs that benefit minorities. It hurts the poor generally, but they can get away with it by framing it in racist terms. SNAP, welfare, the ACA. And there is the vocal support of police. Hell, they treat the most anodybe statement on Earth "Black lives matter", as some sort of declaration of war. Insisting on displaying images of slavers and the Confederate flag, even though these images often date back only to the 1960s and were put up to intimidate civil rights activists.
And there is the fact that when hardcore racist groups get involved in politics they do so on the right. David Duke, the Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer, and all the rest of the degenerates. That certainly does nothing to endear them to minorities, though the Republicans used to have enough sense to reject those groups and their support for PR reasons, Trump's embrace of them has shown that PR really was the only concern.
Now about those cities where black people are murdered being run by the Democrats, that's true. That's because those cities have black populations and they aren't going to vote Republican. They have pretty good reasons for that. The police forces in those cities are much white, more suburban, and more right wing than the cities they patrol. The police, like politicians on both sides, work for capital, not the people. But the idea things would get better for the inhabitants of those cities if they voted in the party that excuses police violence and lost its mind over a black president seems unlikely to me.
And that is just the tip of the iceberg, most obvious stuff for one minority group. Getting into the nitty gritty of stuff like the history of red lining (speaking of Donald Trump) and violence against black activists or the way refugees, migrants, and hispanic people or Muslims have been treated, you could go on and on.
So basically, telepathy, IE 'I know their real motives,' and rationalization.
If the Democrats control the state government, the city government, and the police department, and have for a long time, there is no justification for claiming that it's racist right-wingers that are causing the problems. That's naked BS.
If the Democrats have controlled the state government, the city government, and the board of education for a long time, there's no justification for blaming racist right-wingers for the failure of those systems to serve black People.
I deal with
facts.
It is a
fact that Democrat-controlled areas are worse for blacks.
It is a
fact that under President Obama, racial relations drastically worsened, and black unemployment skyrocketed.
It is a
fact that under Trump, Black unemployment hit the lowest since it started being recorded.
It is a
fact that Republicans have been the primary supporters of voucher programs for schooling, and Democrats have been the primary opponents. It is a
fact that these schools are so much better than standard public schools, the waiting lists are generally thousands or tens of thousands of people long.
It is a
fact that while David Duke was in the Republican party after the Dems kicked him out, he was denounced by party leadership and pushed out.
It is a
fact that the so called 'racist' Proud Boys are in fact led by and include a wide variety of ethnic minorities in their leadership.
It is a
fact that groups like Antifa have repeatedly been caught calling minorities racist slurs if they oppose Antifa.
You can go on about 'narratives' and 'dog whistles' and 'secret indirect legal attacks' all you want. Maybe with that last one, you're even right some of the time.
But the
facts are that when Democrats are in charge, things are worse for blacks. When Republicans are in charge, things get better.
There are three possibilities:
1. There is no meaningful difference in racial effects of the parties, and these results are unrelated to who is in power.
2. The Democrats are the worst anti-racists ever, and the Republicans are the worst at being racists ever.
3. The Democrats are actually racists, and the Republicans are not.
The
facts support the third outcome. The 'Southern strategy' resulting in all the racist democrats switching sides is myth, pure and simple. Two of the 'Dixiecrats' left the Democrats for the Republican party, and they were never allowed to run on things like segregation ever again. Conversely, people like Robert Byrd, an
actual member of the KKK, remained in the Democrat Party as a Senator for forty some years. Hillary called him a 'mentor,' and Biden delivered his eulogy.
Republicans and Conservatives oppose things like Affirmative Action, because we oppose
all forms of racism. If you want to run a charity that only benefits minorities, to help them overcome any disadvantages they face, by all means go ahead and do so. However, it violates the law to bias hiring or university acceptance for immutible characteristics such as race, and that cuts both ways, and by 'law' I mean both legal and moral.
'Black Lives Matter' as a statement, I absolutely agree with, and so has every and any Conservative I have ever known. 'Black Lives Matter' as an organization has started and participated in riots that have killed more black people in a matter of months, than cops kill unarmed black people in a year. They're also explicitly marxists, and have stated (though they finally removed it from their site after months) that they want to destroy the nuclear family. I am opposed to them as I am opposed to any other organization with a habit of rampant assault and property destruction, topped off with supporting genocidal ideologies.
Let's hit a few more facts on racial matters:
Do you see those numbers and proportions? Do you understand the
significance of those proportions?
'Whites' compose 73% of the population. 'Black or African American' is 12.7 of the population. That means that if race had no bearing whatsoever on violence, white on black violence would be almost 6x as common as black on white violence, because there's almost six times as many whites as blacks.
But it isn't. In fact, the ratio is almost 9:1 black on white violence, which when you combine it with the population ratio, means that per-capita
blacks are 54x more violent against whites than whites are against blacks.
Why are we not hearing about this apparent epidemic of racist violence against whites?
Because it's not politically useful.
Would it be easy to justify using these statistics to hold racist attitudes against blacks? Yes, absolutely.
I don't think race has anything to do with it. I think the difference between Ben Carson and David Duke isn't their race, it's the decisions they made with how to live the live that they had. David Duke chose to become a racist grifter, Ben Carson chose to overcome great obstacles and become arguably the greatest brain surgeon in the world.
The
facts show that Democrat policies are consistently either ineffective, or full up counter-productive.
Republican policies
sometimes are ineffective,
sometimes are counter-productive, but at least as often as not are effective.
And the more they're based on Conservative principles, the more effective they are.
Conservatives believe in all people being equal before the eyes of God, or for secular conservatives, at least equal before the eyes of the law. That
explicitly is not something that the Democrats believe in, so even
if the nonsense about dogwhistles was correct, the Democrats would
still demonstrably be the more racist party, in what they say, what they do, and what the consequences of those words and actions are.
This ties
heavily into why I'm a conservative, or conservative/libertarian by the way some measure it.
