Racism in Retail

I can't verify Drury's story. But, I will tell a similar one from work this week.

If you don't know already, I have a part time retail delivery job. When I'm not delivering, I help out in the store.

I'm helping an elderly Black man at the cash registrar when a 'kid in a Rebel flag shirt' makes a stupid move. Dumb kid. Might have been 16 or might have been 26. Always wears this Rebel flag t-shirt with no sleeves.

So Flag kid should stand in line BEHIND my customer. He doesn't. He comes up and leans on my counter right at the elbow of my first customer. I didn't say anything but I tried really hard to make eye contact with my customer as if the kid wasn't there, ignoring the kid, and to show all my focus is on the right person at the right time.

Of course, my elderly man really wants away from the kid. Turns slightly away from the kid as the transaction is finished and leaves quickly.

So I say to the kid, "Do you know that you made that man feel uncomfortable?"

And the dumb ass reply was .... Fill in the blank using small words of less than 4 letters.

Republican Party's racist Southern Strategy

Since some will not understand the Southern strategy, here's a link to a pdf.

Here are some quotes:

From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that...but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.

But, what of the Democratic Party?It will retreat to the Northeast corner, where there is a high percentage of liberal Jews, Yankees, Negroes and ... masses of subsidized radicals ...

Perhaps the oddest of the quotes will not be understood ...

;Future Republican voters will be] against aid to blacks, against aid to big cities, and against the liberal life style it sees typified by purple glasses, beards, long hair, bralessness, pornography, coddling of criminals, and moral permissiveness run riot.

Those are quotes from only one person, perhaps the most powerful voice in forming the Southern Strategy, Kevin Phillips.