Lee Atwater's infamous "Southern Strategy" tape finally surfaces

[superunknown23]

For years, conservatives dismissed it as a myth but here it is...
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_8E3ENrKrQ"]Exclusive: Lee Atwater's Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy - YouTube[/ame]

"You start in 1954 by saying ‘******, ******, ******.’ By 1968 you can’t say ‘******.’ That hurts you. It backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states rights and all that stuff and you get so abstract. Now you talk about cutting taxes and these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that’s part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract and that coded, we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. Obviously sitting around saying we want to cut taxes and we want this, is a lot more abstract than even the busing thing and a hell of a lot more abstract than ****** ******. So anyway you look at it, race is coming on the back burner."

Now it's "food stamp president, urban vote, free stuff, muslim kenyan socialist, gifts, etc"

 

[Rufus Dufus]

http://www.the-coli.com/higher-lear...ter-infamous-1981-interview.html#.ULJFudf4KSo

 

[NZA]

he used to do all that and play in blues bands with black artists, and ive seen the interviews of those black musicians that played with him. the term 'uncle tom' wouldnt even do them justice.