Tagged: institutionalized racsm

“In his diary, [Richard] Nixon’s chief of staff, Bob Haldeman, described the operational blueprint for a new electoral landscape built on bigotry. ‘You have to face the fact that the whole problem [in AmeriKKKa] is really the blacks,’ Nixon told him. ‘The key is to devise a system that recognizes that while not appearing to.'”

Source: Gary Younge. “What Race Has To Do With It.” The Nation. October 3, 2012. http://www.thenation.com/article/170337/what-race-has-do-it.