This is shaping up to be the most racially polarised US election ever (Leads off w/Peanutgate)

The Guardian ^ | September 9, 2012 | Gary Younge

[2ndDivisionVet]

As Republicans were promoting themselves as a multiracial party from the platform in Tampa two weeks ago, an ugly incident on the convention floor suggested not everyone had got the memo. From the podium a range of speakers of Haitian, Mexican, Cuban and Indian descent spoke of how their parents had overcome huge barriers so they could succeed in the US. In the audience, a successful black woman who works for CNN was being pelted with peanuts by a convention-goer, who said: "This is how we feed the animals."

The tension between the projection of a modern, inclusive, tolerant party and the reality of a sizeable racially intolerant element within its base pining for the restoration of white privilege is neither new nor accidental. Indeed, it in no small part explains the trajectory of the Republican party for almost the last half century. In his diary, Richard Nixon's chief-of-staff, Bob Haldeman, described how his boss spelled out the racial contours of a new electoral game-plan to win southern and suburban whites over to the Republican party in the wake of the civil rights era. "You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks," Nixon told him. "The key is to devise a system that recognises that while not appearing to."

This could be the final hurrah for what became known as Nixon's southern strategy...

[Forward the Light Brigade]

George Wallace was re-elected on the black vote and did much to help Civil Rights in his state! He wasn’t always the snaring segragationalist depicted by the left.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

This is the most polarizing election in history. IF Obama cooks the election and wins big—or cancels the election all together for one reason or another—it could lead to Civil War as he imposes his Obamacare and socialism on the states. Such a thing would end America as a great power.

[sportutegrl]

Don't you think it is odd that the Black vote that had been reliably Republican for decades suddenly switched to Democrat? The anti slavery party, the early Civil Rights party, the party that desegrated the schools, the party that gave the blacks the right to vote, the party of Martin Luther King and Lincoln, is thrown over for forced busing, affirmative action and welfare?

The Dems like Wallace just learned to hide their racism and pander to the blacks. Dems don't see blacks as equal to whites. That is why they believed in slavery and believe in forced busing, affirmative action and welfare.

Republicans believe that blacks are equals with whites, so you can't enslave people like yourself, we should have neighborhood schools, and everybody gets the same chance to get a job or get into college, no discrimination or affirmative action.

Republicans believe that if you hold black people to the same standards as white people, they will live up to your expectations. I know this because I am a Republican. Don't believe the lies that Democrats like Biden, (They gonna put y'all back in chains) tell about us.