None Dare Call It Race-Baiting

Life is full of surprises at the NY Times:

Southern Democrats, Courting Black Voters, Focus Senate Campaigns on Racial Scars

In the final days before the election, Democrats in the closest Senate races across the South are turning to racially charged messages — invokingTrayvon Martin’s death, the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., and Jim Crow-era segregation — to jolt African-Americans into voting and stop a Republican takeover in Washington.

The images and words they are using are striking for how overtly they play on fears of intimidation and repression. And their source is surprising. The effort is being led by national Democrats and their state party organizations — not, in most instances, by the shadowy and often untraceable political action committees that typically employ such provocative messages.

In North Carolina, the “super PAC” started by Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, ran an ad on black radio that accused the Republican candidate, Thom Tillis, of leading an effort to pass the kind of gun law that “caused the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.”

In Georgia, Democrats are circulating a flier warning that voting is the only way “to prevent another Ferguson.” It shows two black children holding cardboard signs that say “Don’t shoot.”

 

The messages are coursing through the campaigns like a riptide, powerful and under the surface, largely avoiding television and out of view of white voters. That has led Republicans to accuse Democrats of turning to race-baiting in a desperate bid to win at the polls next Tuesday.

“They have been playing on this nerve in the black community that if you even so much as look at a Republican, churches will start to burn, your civil rights will be taken away and young black men like Trayvon Martin will die,” said Michael Steele, a former chairman of the Republican Party. “The reality of it is, the Democrats realize that their most loyal constituency is not as loyal as they once were.”

No criticism of Republicans making coded appeals to racism with, oh, tough on crime Willie Horton ads?

Comments

[Sandy--Engorged Capital~Fallow Districts--Daze]

I'm here.

[Jack is Back!]

My Uncle Frank:

My Uncle Frank was a staunch Conservative, and voted straight Republican until the day he died in Chicago.
Since then he has voted Democrat.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Oh, no, I am NOT going to cross post my NC stuff to this thread. Not in a million years.

[Frau Lehrerin a.D.]

Is that Harry R-e--i-d the Searchlight pederast?

[Frau Lehrerin a.D.]

How long can the progs get away with this carp? It's just disgusting.

[Captain Hate]

In Georgia, Democrats are circulating a flier warning that voting is the only way “to prevent another Ferguson.” It shows two black children holding cardboard signs that say “Don’t shoot.”

I'm still ready for that honest conversation on race.

[Jane]

Don Surber got fired for calling Michael Brown an animal - on his personal blog.

[Danube on iPad]

"And their source is surprising."

Only to the Times.

[Carol Herman]

Oh, I see. Perhaps they need a sign?

While Ferguson was ongoing ... I saw one that works for me:

PANTS UP ... DON'T LOOT

These days the least scarey thing any politician can do is pull the "race card." Ain't worth a damn.

[narciso]

And yet there was all this hullabaloo, about Willie Horton, which illustrated Dukakis's policy priorities exactly,

[Iggy]

-— invoking Trayvon Martin’s death, the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., and Jim Crow-era segregation — -

Um, do they happen to mention which party runs Ferguson or which party passed and protected Jim Crow laws?

[narciso]

I know I answered my own question:

http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2014/10/28/More-Evidence-the-Government-Hacked-Sharyl-Attkisson-s-Computer

[Sandy fallow districts~engorged capital Daze]

Elbert Guillory

Elbert Guillory: Send Hagan Home

Elbert Guillory: Mary Landrieu is Not Helping Blacks

Elbert Guillory: "Why I Am a Republican"

Racist !

/sarc

[jimmyk]

Any self-respecting black should take offense at this. Some day they will.

[narciso]

I'm getting a strange feeling of dejavu:

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2014/10/30/tsr-starr-khorasan-strikes.cnn.html

Zaphod was on hard hitting Steve Harvey show, today,

[Captain Hate]

Regrets, I've had a few...

http://www.newsmax.com/US/Eric-Holder-decision-do-over-James-Rosen/2014/10/29/id/604003/?ns_mail_uid=32944113&ns_mail_job=1592953_10302014&s=al&dkt_nbr=dqxlvdwa

[lyle]

Biggest asshole AG of all time.

[Frau Fragezeichen]

Drudge: Obama prepares amnesty plan.
For himself?

[Miss Marple]

Good evening all. Behind me at the auction this evening were a retired nurse and a couple who are dealers; he is German, she is American.

The pre-auction discussion turned to Ebola, Obama, and the nurse in Maine.

NO positive commments. Dealer believes this is all going on because Obama is a Muslim. (I am not arguing this, just letting you know that this is going around and not just with knuckle-dragging types. I have a friend who heads a department at a hospital who thinks the same thing.) Nurse thinks they are making people afraid with their constantly changing policies. All are disgusted. Too bad we don't have a Senator up this cycle.

Lots of angry people out there.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Miss Marple:
Behind me at the auction this evening were a retired nurse and a couple who are dealers

Your marijuana dealers? You're two threads behind for the that thread.