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    Political Timebomb (Playing The Presidential Race Card)
    Political Timebomb (Playing The Presidential Race Card)
    Political Timebomb (Playing The Presidential Race Card)
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    Political Timebomb (Playing The Presidential Race Card)

    By Marc Platt

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    “Political Timebomb (Playing The Presidential Race Card)”: (Includes Audio Notebook Links at The End of The Manuscript)
    There is an old saying “All Politics is Local.” In this book, I will discuss how most “Presidential Politics is Racial.” The Democrats used to be the “Racist Party” in America. Just watch Steven Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’ about the 1865 battle to get the 13th Amendment passed nearing the end of the Civil War. The GOP was “The Party of Lincoln” and was much more progressive than the Southern slave-holding racist Democrats, who fought tooth-and-nail against the northern “Yanks.” We all know that the 13th Amendment passed and slaves were “Constitutionally” freed for all times in America. That’s the good news. The bad news is…It didn’t really work in all aspects of American life. You will gain a lot of knowledge with this very easy read for everyone.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMarc Platt
    Release dateJul 15, 2015
    ISBN9781516315413
    Political Timebomb (Playing The Presidential Race Card)

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      Political Timebomb (Playing The Presidential Race Card) - Marc Platt

      Political Time Bomb

      (Playing the Presidential Race Card)

      Intro

      How Did We Get Here?

      Nixon’s The One

      Ford and Carter

      The Ronald Reagan Lee Atwater Political Alliance

      A Gift for Daddy Bush

      Clinton and Dubya

      The ObamaHalf-Nation

      The Goldwater Girl Pivots to Democrat

      What Will Post Obama America Look Like

      Epilogue

      © 2015 Marc Alan Platt

      Intro

      There is an old saying All Politics is Local.

      In this book, I will discuss how most Presidential Politics is Racial.

      The Democrats used to be the Racist Party in America. Just watch Steven Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’ about the 1865 battle to get the 13th Amendment passed nearing the end of the Civil War. The GOP was The Party of Lincoln and was much more progressive than the Southern slave-holding racist Democrats, who fought tooth-and-nail against the northern Yanks.

      We all know that the 13th Amendment passed and slaves were Constitutionally freed for all times in America. That’s the good news. The bad news is...It didn’t really work in all aspects of American life.

      We know that Civil Rights were not protected until 100 years later when Lyndon Johnson was able to get the 1964 Civil Rights Act passed and then the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The Southern Democrats were still a major voting bloc in America and they were pissed off.

      We will discuss in this book how and who took advantage of this particular voting bloc and how it has shaped our politics for decades.

      I grew up as a child of the 1960s. I was under the notion that we had progressed in our racial views. I was wrong. It took an African American getting elected and rejected by Republican-elected officials on the very night of his first inauguration for this fact to hit home.

      The notion that the entire country could get behind a man elected twice in a resounding manner was shattered. The question that needs to be addressed is will it always be this way in America? Will we ever get back on track morally? Will the next administration be able to mend fences and get America back on track racially?

      Marc Platt

      Los Angeles, CA 2015

      Chapter One: How Did We Get Here

      The fact that during Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal that 50% of Black Americans were unemployed might make you think that the New Deal pretty much ignored that segment of society. It is true that 20% of America was unemployed at the time during the Great Depression.

      65% of the African Americans who did have jobs were domestic or agriculture workers. Roosevelt seemed to not want to rock the boat when it came to segregation. His wife Eleanor Roosevelt WAS very sensitive to the plight of these citizens, but the temperature of American politics was not ready for Civil Rights reform. The new Social Security legislation did not cover domestic or agriculture workers. Anti-racism politics had not become a part of the liberal mainstream of America during Roosevelt’s tenure.

      Harry Truman’s administration was responsible for legislation that overturned many Jim Crow segregationist laws that had been on the books since 1896. The Supreme Court backed Truman’s lead and despite the fact Truman was from Missouri, a very segregated state in our union. In fact, Truman’s ancestors owned slaves.

      Truman’s wife recounted his early racism, but as he went along he seemed to develop different views once he was in public office:

      "I believe in brotherhood....of all men before the law....if any (one) class or race can be permanently set apart from, or pushed down below the

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