The answer lies in an ideological shift among Republicans: Belief that discrimination against Black Americans & other people of color is a thing of the past & that whites are now the ones who face unfair treatment has increasingly become a core GOP view.
“Black women are, what, 6% of the U.S. population? He’s saying to 94% of Americans: ‘I don’t give a damn about you. You are ineligible,’” Cruz said, in language that bore more than a passing resemblance to Helms’ famous ad.was quick to note that Cruz had not criticized Trump when he promised to nominate a woman after the death of JusticeIn both of those cases, the Republican presidents nominated white women: JusticesOf course, political opportunism is at play.
The hardening of Republican attitudes toward race goes beyond the fight over the court. As Biden has repeatedly said, All that comes against a backdrop of continued huge gaps between Black and white Americans on income, wealth, education, life expectancy and other measurements.Race has been very much an issue in the league this month because of a lawsuit brought byRoughly 70% of the NFL’s players are Black, and the league currently has just one Black head coach,, recently announced by the Houston Texans. That’s one fewer than the league had when the Rooney Rule took effect in 2003.
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