These social concepts have helped create this strong sense of inferiority Blacks and that Blacks are criminals. Through these social concepts comes the southern strategy. The southern strategy is defined as “a cynical strategy, this catering in subtle ways to the segregationist leanings of white Southern voters- yet pretending with high rhetoric that the real aim was simply to treat the South fairly, to let it become part of the nation again” (Murphy/Gulliver 3).
Most Republicans tried to deny that the southern strategy existed, such as, Nixon, but had strategies to slow down the desegregation of schools in the South. American seemed to become a battleground that wanted equality for people against the Republican Party strapped with the political sabotage of the southern strategy. Southern Strategy sets up a scene to show the political battle that takes a place. “This one was not the perfect fight to illustrate the old and the new. But it …show more content…
This also shown through acts by Nixon, such as, the War on Drugs, this seemingly targeted drugs within America, but ultimately targeted black males, and grew the stereotype of Black criminality. The War on Drugs began in 1971 and was kept ongoing into the Reagan Era. Since the early 1970s until around 2005, the prison population has gone up 500%, and this disproportionately affected Black males, making the statistic for Black males going to prison 1 in 15 compared the 1 in 106 white male (Kerby). The War on Drugs seem to mostly only affect communities of color. These are the types of political moves that have been made through our government system. Through policies like these racism has now combined with our government system to hold down a group of people already oppressed because they are a marginalized group, and now the government that should be helping them demeans
Most Republicans tried to deny that the southern strategy existed, such as, Nixon, but had strategies to slow down the desegregation of schools in the South. American seemed to become a battleground that wanted equality for people against the Republican Party strapped with the political sabotage of the southern strategy. Southern Strategy sets up a scene to show the political battle that takes a place. “This one was not the perfect fight to illustrate the old and the new. But it …show more content…
This also shown through acts by Nixon, such as, the War on Drugs, this seemingly targeted drugs within America, but ultimately targeted black males, and grew the stereotype of Black criminality. The War on Drugs began in 1971 and was kept ongoing into the Reagan Era. Since the early 1970s until around 2005, the prison population has gone up 500%, and this disproportionately affected Black males, making the statistic for Black males going to prison 1 in 15 compared the 1 in 106 white male (Kerby). The War on Drugs seem to mostly only affect communities of color. These are the types of political moves that have been made through our government system. Through policies like these racism has now combined with our government system to hold down a group of people already oppressed because they are a marginalized group, and now the government that should be helping them demeans