4/27/2008

Senator John Mc Cain is finding himself vilified with the white racist paint brush by his friends in the North Carolina Republican Party who are hell bent on exploiting overt racism to pour scorn on Senator Barack Obama. The North Carolina GOP knows that yesteryear’s racists will discount any white heritage of Obama because they go by the one drop of black blood belief that means biracial means black, so media lynchings are justified.

When I think about the strategy being exploited by the North Carolina GOP it becomes apparent that their hope is to define Sen. Hillary Clinton as a good ol' white girl who has utter contempt for African Americans, so she should get the blue collar white vote in the Democratic Party primaries. Since the North Carolina GOP hopes to exploit overt racism let us stop pussyfooting and translate the euphemism of blue collar white vote to mainstream language where it is equivalent to saying the white racist vote.

The North Carolina GOP now can ignore Sen. Mc Cain’s request that the advertisement not be run because the Pennsylvania Democratic Primary was a pilot test of racial politics. Pennsylvania showed the potency of the white blue collar vote in turning the tide. It demonstrated that yesteryear’s white disdain for African Americans is live and well, furthermore this white disdain is just waiting to be exploited.

The North Carolina GOP closet racists obviously feel that they no longer need to hide their anti-black racist actions by exploiting euphemisms. The potential potency in the North Carolina GOP strategy is they hope to define Sen. Clinton as the poster child of white racist politics; thereby, they will suppress an overwhelming black voter turnout for local Democratic candidates in the fall election. Furthermore, if blacks stay home and Mc Cain wins the GOP remains the bastion of whites’ only political candidates which bode well with the blue collar white vote.

Senator John Mc Cain is attempting to distant himself from this blatant act of racist political skullduggery, but I think it is too late. Mc Cain has just inherited a GOP inappropriate taint by people he may not be able to control. Do we start asking how long Senator Mc Cain knew the North Carolina GOP was a blatant whites’ only bastion? Obvious Senator Mc Cain knew Sen. Jesse Helms who was the master of exploiting racist baiting politics.

You may feel some discomfort reading the comments of a socialist, but Patrick Martin writing on the World Socialist Web site characterizes Sen. Jesse Helm role of the poster child for racist campaigning. “By 1972 the Democratic Party in North Carolina was deeply split over the issue of race. Senator B. Everett Jordan, a three-term incumbent and longtime defender of segregation, was challenged for the Democratic nomination by Congressman Nick Galifianakis, who won a bitter primary fight with the support of many newly registered black voters. Helms switched parties, sought the Republican nomination and won a narrow victory, becoming the first Republican ever to win a Senate race in North Carolina. Former Democrats, many motivated by white racism, provided his 54-46 percent margin.

“A similar pattern developed throughout the region—hailed by President Richard Nixon as a vindication of his “Southern strategy.” The Republican Party, once the party of Abraham Lincoln, revived its fortunes in the South by adopting the cause of racial prejudice, under a thin disguise of opposing “special privileges” for blacks. Helms followed in the footsteps of other diehard racist politicians, like Strom Thurmond of neighboring South Carolina, in switching parties. But more than any of them, even Thurmond, he retained the closest ties to far-right and Ku Klux Klan elements openly committed to white supremacy.” http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/aug2001/helm-a31.shtml

If Sen. John Mc Cain cannot reign in the North Carolina GOP’s openly white racist campaign, should the media depict Mc Cain’s campaign with the slogan “We want white voters only for we wrote off Black America years ago?”