“Since the mid-60s Republicans have seen an electoral opportunity in appealing to the basest, racist sentiments of a section of the white electorate. What became known as the “Nixon strategy” aimed to use the dog whistle of racial symbolism – like “Welfare Queens” and “Willie Horton” – to draw white southerners into the Republican fold and peel off disaffected whites in the north too. It worked. Since the second world war, Democrats have won the presidency with the white vote alone only once – in 1964. One of the appeals for some whites of voting Republican is a desire to maintain whatever limited racial privileges they have acquired over the years combined with a fear that what little they have will be taken away by feckless non-whites and undocumented migrants. While in Nevada in 2010 I asked a white Republican without health insurance why she wouldn’t support a candidate who might give it to her. “I never really got into that Obamacare insurance stuff,” she said. “My mind is focusing 250% on this illegal immigration.”
—Why do poor white voters reject the Democrats? Well, why shouldn’t they? | Gary Younge | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
“There are politicians who say if we just drill more, gas prices will come down,” Obama said. “What they don’t say is that we have been drilling more.” Drilling doesn’t change the fact, he said, “that we use more than 20 percent of the world’s oil and we only have 2 percent of the world’s oil reserves.”
—How Gas and ‘Petrol’ Prices Feel Different : Discovery News
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—Wireframing for Web Apps | The Intercom Blog
“And so instead of harping on the monochromatism and classist nature of Girls, support the artists, producers, and creators of colour and consciousness who are centralizing their experiences — our experiences— in their work. Support UgandaSpeaks, and writers like Chimamanda Adiche Ngozi and Teju Cole; films like Pariah, Gun Hill Road and Restless City; shows like Awkward Black Girl and East Willy B. Help lift up all of the underground artists, writers, thinkers, producers, workers, organisers and creators who produce alternatives all the while remembering that we, youth of colour, are not invisible. We may not figure in the imagination of pop culture makers and all may not understand our struggles, but we do not need to be delivered to relevancy by anyone other than ourselves. White eyes are not the only one’s with insight; white voices are not the only one’s that sound; white ears are not the most important receivers; and white actions are not the only one’s that count. We are not invisible children, for at the very least, we see ourselves.”
— Sharon Cromwell, A Call For People of Colour: Build Towards Liberation (via hudawashere)
