1. I think Southern racist politicians chose to frame their defense of racial segregation through the language of “law and order”, by how they think of civil rights activists and how they think of them as criminals, but in the Bill of Rights, “We have the rights to peacefully protest without causing a commotion”. During the 1950s and 60s America experienced the worldwide freedom movement which is known as the civil rights movement against segregation, where people of our ages, college students, and people of color activists joined forces to make segregation end for all of us and we could be united. Racists believe that races of people are unequal to each other and they can’t coexist. The racist policemen couldn’t arrest people of color because of their race since they don’t have probable cause to arrest them.
  2. The Southern strategy was based on was a Republican presidential campaign from the 1968 presidential election. From the Nixion speech, “He promised that he would come up with another way to get racist politics to continue”, which I think is just awful I don’t imagine the world in segregation because we go to public schools and share it with different ethnicities. I believe that the Southern strategy is still being used because look at when COVID happened everyone started being very disrespectful towards the Asian Americans because it was said that, COVID started in China. Yes, it originated in China but that doesn’t give people the right to physically harm them because that is happening we need to protect ourselves because hurting them won’t help.

2 thoughts on “Discussion Board 2.2”

  1. Hi Madeline,
    The Southerners didn’t want equality, so they wanted to put an end to the civil rights movement, but they couldn’t really do much because the activists had a right to peacefully protest, so they decided to use the language of “law and order” claiming that they were disobeying the law, that way the activists pushing for freedom can be arrested, and put in jail.

  2. Hi Madeline, nice summary of the main arguments. On COVID, I don’t think anybody knows where it actually started, China was the scapegoat American presidents and politicians used to justify their own inability to deal with the pandemic effectively 🙂

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