Shortly after he is nominated, Ronald Reagan goes to Mississippi, ironicallynot far from where there civil rights workers were killed some years before, and gives a speech supporting "states rights" in front of a white crowd. What could have that meant? Naturally, his administration slow walks civil rights enforcement. Remember one of George H. W. Bush's campaign centerpieces of law and order, killer Willie Horton, complete with ominous looking photo. The Supreme Court says that the Voting Rights Act need not be enforced as it had been. So within a short period of time, the states covered by the act, the Deep South and Arizona, enact voter ID laws that do things like eliminate Sunday voting, a practice among some black communities, and drastically reduce polling places around Phoenix where Hispanics live. And we have Donald Trump, who circulates information that says that +/- 80% of white homicides are by blacks, based on info from a non-existent source. FBI numbers are something like 12%. And, of course, there are Mexican migrants as rapists, the lie that Muslims celebrated 9/11 in New Jersey, suggesting that Syrian refugees, the most vetted of immigrants, we're not vetted at all, "go back to where your came from," "****hole countries"...
... Move along, obviously nothing to see here.... Do I have to go on?
