I was reminded that the Democratic party aligned with the Ku Klux Klan. Many people will simply ignore this as rhetoric. However, we should not ignore this. There are a large group of people that are not aligned to a party but to hatred.
The Dixiecrats, Strom Thurman, George Wallace... they may have been labeled Democrats at one point. They may have referenced "states rights", but it has always been the same. At the moment, the hate mongers have aligned with the Republican party. I need not provide evidence for this, the nomination has already taken place.
Time and again, politicians have made references to stereotypes to further their agendas. The references may have been less obvious in other cases, but the truth is that "the race card" is played by the hate mongers in nearly every election year.
We should not simply ignore misinformation and half-truths. We must call out all direct and indirect racism. The re-emergence of more direct racism is not really surprising. The hate mongers have always been there. They will always be there. We must identify them. We must stop pretending that we are talking about a tiny fraction of the population. Hate is commonplace.
The lines have been drawn. Open racism has again reared its head. We must all now choose how to react.
