Comment on Appearing in Georgia, one day only.....DON TRUMP.
LongbottomLeaf@lemmy.nz 1 year agoIf he gets shot, it's too damn bad. Conversation about Senator Edward Kennedy with White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman (September 7, 1972) Screw State! State's always on the side of the blacks. The hell with them! Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976 Volume E-5, Part 1, Documents on Sub-Saharan Africa, 1969-1972, Document 258 Conversation Between President Nixon and the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger), Camp David, September 24, 1972, 11:37-11:52 a.m The press is the enemy. The press is the enemy. The press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it. Conversation with Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig on December 14, 1972
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nixon:
As for your quote, here’s another:
Nixon’s administration saw the largest percentage of black children enrolled in segregated schools in American history. In 1968, 68% of black children in the South were attending all-black schools. By 1974, that number had fallen to 8%.
Cruxifux@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nixon also pushed the criminalization of weed and heroin so that he could imprison blacks and hippies because they were the largest demographics of the anti war movement and he didn’t want to make it obvious that he was taking political prisoners out of his own citizenry.
So no, he fucking was not progressive. For that and so many other reasons.
LongbottomLeaf@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
Conveniently left out that “progressive” Controlled Substances Act that has been so helpful for all those pesky minorities that wouldn’t vote for him.
Compare Nixon to either Democrat that came before or after him.
He wasn’t progressive for his time. The Overton Window has shifted so far to the right, Nixon now appears less than conservative (to some).
Also, shiny prepared statements mean less to me than what someone says behind closed doors to their friends and allies.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
More people were jailed for drug possession under Obama than Nixon. Also, see “rainbow bingo” from my first comment.
Like the war hawk and sexual predator Johnson or Jimmy Carter, whose most notable contributions were installing solar panels on the white house?
Sounds about right.
I don’t disagree but some crude backroom conversations don’t negate the fact that Nixon’s administration oversaw more social desegregation than any other administration at the time.
LongbottomLeaf@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
Hyperbolic nazi.
Like Nixon wasn’t a sexual predator. Like you care about inmates or the wrongly incarcerated. As if you care about minorities.
You put words in my mouth like you breathe and lie.
Nixon was not progressive for anyone’s day. He was the Trump of his day. Why else would Paul Manafort work for both of them?
Did Carter have Henry fucking Kissinger as his advisor and confidant?
Wake up and smell what you shovel.