It HAS BEEN like THAT from Donald Trump and some other Republicans for a LONG TIME….
It hasn’t stopped….
Nor will it anytime soon…..
Racial politics did NOT stop with the nation’s first Black/Mixed President serving for 8 years…
And Black folks KNOW this ….
And do NOT like it at all…..
In Pennsylvania, President Trump and Republicans loyal to him have sought to overturn his defeat by making false claims about widespread voting fraud in Philadelphia.
In Georgia, they have sought to reverse his loss by leveling similar accusations against Atlanta.
In Michigan, Republicans have zeroed in on Detroit, whose elections system the president has falsely portrayed as so flawed that its entire vote should be thrown out.
Lost on no one in those cities is what they have in common: large populations of Black voters.
And there is little ambiguity in the way Mr. Trump and his allies are falsely depicting them as bastions of corruption.
“‘Democrat-led city’ — that’s code for Black,” said the Rev. William J. Barber II, the president of the civil rights group Repairers of the Breach. “They’re coupling ‘city’ and ‘fraud,’ and those two words have been used throughout the years. This is an old playbook being used in the modern time, and people should be aware of that.”
Mr. Trump’s fruitless and pyromaniacal campaign to somehow reverse President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory in the election rests on the wholesale disenfranchisement of hundreds of thousands of voters, a disproportionate number of them Black Americans living in the urban centers of Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.
Notably absent from the effort has been any focus on predominantly white suburban areas where the president performed better, but where he lost ground compared with four years ago and arguably lost the election….
Republicans have been on that kick long before Trump appeared on the scene.
Not surprising then that the Leader of the Republican Party would grab ahold of that old dog whistle.
Also not surprising that most Republicans have rallied to his side.
The Republicans ,who have lost the popular vote in every presidential election save one over The past thirty two years ,are so arrogant that they can’t conceive that they don’t represent most Americans.
They would though if it weren’t for “them.”
Get it?