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A Beautiful Live Performance at Union Chapel by Snarky Puppy's Bill Laurance: "Red Sand"

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Teukka6/25/2017 9:29:55 am PDT

So, I happened across this Wikipedia article:
Dog-whistle Politics: United States

You start out in 1954 by saying, “Ni*clang*, ni*clang*, ni*clang*.” By 1968, you can’t say “ni*clang*” — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Ni*clang*, ni*clang*.”

— Lee Atwater, Republican Party strategist in an anonymous interview in 1981