To prevent another Populist revolt of poor white and black farmers - TopicsExpress

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To prevent another Populist revolt of poor white and black farmers after 1896, the Bourbons (with the indispensable help of the Northern Democrats and the Republican party) passed laws and constitutional amendments disenfranchising black and poor white voters, which had the obvious advantage of depriving their enemies of the ballot. After that, they were able to pass, in the following decades, an elaborate legal system of racial segregation that made cooperation between blacks and whites a virtual crime. They did this not because the white majority was virulently racist but because, politically speaking, it was not racist enough. Without a formal, institutionalized racial system, as the Bourbons well knew, racism in the white counties would languish ... Woven by law into the fabric of daily life, kept alive and perpetually incited ... racism has been used by the Bourbons as their chief instrument of political control. Walter Karp, Indispensable Enemies, p62 #ferguson #racism #manipulation #wakeup #joinforces

Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:51:46 +0000

To prevent another Populist revolt of poor white and black farmers - TopicsExpress

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