Barry Goldwater Would HATE (To See What The Republican Party Has Become)

Every time I get around conservatives, and the subject of race comes up - and their racist asses will ALWAYS bring up reparations - they immediately fail Barry Goldwaters' Conservatism Test, every single time:

“This is one of the troubles that the liberals get into. They become so doctrinaire, so conformist, that if you don’t fit their little mold right down to their pinkies you’re no liberal. I don’t want to see the conservatives get to that point. We’ve had that trouble with the Birch Society. They say, ‘You either believe in _________ or by God you’re not a Republican.’ Well, I couldn’t agree less.”

That the silliest of us try to make decent conservatives feel bad, for following Goldwater's mandate, means it's time for them to go. 

A Lesson That HAS To Be Learned The Hard Way (And The Harder The Better)

It's weird, how America keeps ending up right back here, again.

 

Walker Ain't Reagan (And There's No MLK Comparison)

He mostly looks like a nobody to me

A Reagan biographer dissing a conservative is worse than when some Lefty band merely asks a Republican candidate to stop using their song:

“Walker is borrowing from Reagan’s mystique more than any other Republican eyeing the presidency, but Ronald Reagan he ain’t.”

If he wants to be more accurate, all Walker has to do is claim Barry Goldwater: he famously made America's racists feel good, as well,...

Don't Stand So Close 2 Me: Wisconsin & It's Racist Past

After all of Wisconsin's open flirtation with it's racism, the strain had to be excrutiating,...

"I have a dream, too, that one day every darn one of you is going to pay. ... I wonder what kind of people you are. You never get upset about anything."

- Clara Meek, at a Bascom Hill memorial service, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

America has a serious racial problem, that it can't bring itself to admit, and watching Madison, Wisconsin try to futilely distance itself from it - with it's own ugly history of racism standing in the way - should prove,...entertaining:

For demonstrators uniting under the banner of #BlackLivesMatter, the problem is not specific to a city or particular police officer, but systemic on a national level,… 

Citing a 2013 report by an initiative known as the Race to Equity, The Guardian reported that in 2011, "80 percent of youths in juvenile detention facilities in Dane County, where Madison is located, were African American. They represented only 9 percent of the county’s population."

Like King said of Barry Goldwater, Wisconsin's governor makes racists feel comfortable

Considering - with the election of Scott Walker - they've already jumped into bed with racism's worst elements, TMR is betting the residents of Madison can't break it off before everyone discovers what's going on,...

MLK Knew Better (Than Barry Goldwater Supporters Do)

“While not himself a racist, Mr. Goldwater articulates a philosophy which gives aid and comfort to the racists,…”

 

Repeated Racial Betrayals Have Doomed Republicans

The NYT has published a Michael "Spock" Beschloss history lesson.

"Hi, black American, trying to make the country great - I'm the white guy out to screw you!"

This time, it's about Jackie Robinson's sad, wannabe-friendship with Richard Nixon, which Spock uses to explain why blacks haven't voted with Republicans since LBJ - white racism:

Although Presidents Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson championed what became the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Robinson quit his executive job at Chock Full o’Nuts that spring to campaign for Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, a Republican, explaining that “we must work for a two-party system, as far as the Negro is concerned.”

But Republicans nominated Barry Goldwater, who opposed the 1964 legislation as unconstitutional. When Rockefeller denounced political extremism at the party’s San Francisco convention, Robinson, a “special delegate,” shouted, “C’mon, Rocky!” As Robinson recalled, an Alabama delegate “turned on me menacingly” before “his wife grabbed his arm and turned him back.”

Spoiling for a fight, Jackie cried, “Turn him loose, lady, turn him loose!” He later wrote with uncharacteristic overstatement that on leaving San Francisco, “I had a better understanding of how it must have felt to be a Jew in Hitler’s Germany.”

That fall, Robinson joined the 94 percent of the African-American electorate that backed President Johnson. (Since then, the percentage of the black vote for Democratic presidential nominees has never dipped below the low 80s.) In 1968, furious over Nixon’s courtship of Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who had once led the segregationist “Dixiecrats,” Jackie backed the Democratic nominee, Hubert Humphrey,… 

He'd always tried to be friends, and whites seemed to like him - once he was dead.

It was the nomination of Barry Goldwater that got Martin Luther King to switch, too - he told others, as well. 

We hear you - and see you - but have never done so passively.

A part of history conservatives don't want to dwell on as (appearing smart to racist whites by filling blacks with revulsion) they denounce us as "brainwashed" by Democrats to stay "on the plantation." Exactly the type of slavery-influenced words, memories,  reminders, tactics, and racial strategies, that seem to tickle racists pink - but will keep blacks anywhere, but with the Republicans, for a long, long time to come.

No Ghetto Pass? No Hoes!

If, after their many years of betraying blacks, white Republican conservatives keep expecting us to go along with what they insist -  instead of white Republican conservatives deciding to do what blacks need - there's no way this black/white thing will ever be able to end.

At least, not on TMR,…

 

1964: Blacks Went Democrat And Never Looked Back

And it was the Republican, Martin Luther King, who said to do it,...