<<He [LBJ] was referring to Democrats.>>
Yes, and WHO did he think the Democrats were losing the South TO?
<<How was that [Goldwater's Southern Strategy] racist?>>
It aimed to lure racist white Democrats to the GOP based on their disgust with the Dems for passing the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
<<Most people on welfare are white.>>
But the blacks were disproportionately represented on the welfare rolls. And the "welfare queen" of the inner city is definitely a racist caricature.
<<Al Gore originated [the Willie Horton ads.]>>
What bullshit. Al Gore bbrought up the case in an abstract non-racial manner without personalizing it or even naming Willie Horton, let alone identifying him as a black man, during a debate on prison policy. It was Roger Ailes and the GOP which gave Horton a face (black of course) and engineered the entire GOP advertising campaign built around him on a theme of fear of blacks.
<<How is that [Nixon's war on drugs] racist? Don't want to do the time, don't do the crime.>>
It's racist because it's just an excuse to incarcerate, humiliate and intimidate millions of black youths for a victimless crime akin to drinking or overindulgence in alcohol. It's also blatantly racist in the way it's selectively enforced, as numerous studies have previously determined.
<<Was the owner [of Niggerhead]a Republican?>>
Who gives a shit? It was Perry who used the place and Perry who had no fucking concern at all about the name, till it surfaced as a media issue.
<<Perry's daddy who leased the [Niggerhead] property wasn't [a Republican.]>>
Who gives a shit about the daddy, what's he running for? But sure as hell he was a fucking racist pig and obviously a major source of Perry's racism. The apple don't fall far from the tree.
<<He was saying blacks should think for themselves and act accordingly.>>
That's hilarious. I watched the tape. He was sayinig BLACKS ARE BRAINWASHED,and giving that as the reason they weren't voting GOP. But maybe in your alternative universe, he was saying something else.
<<You are saying blacks shouldn't [think for themselves and act accordingly . . .>>
Still more bullshit. You put words into Cain's mouth, and now you put them in mine. No I did not say blacks shouldn't think for themselves, I said that most of them recognize where their own best interests lie and vote accordingly, i.e., AGAINST the GOP.
<< . . . so who is the racist?>>
Obviously, you and the GOP. Who else?