Reading the title today, you can almost hear the Trumpistas gasping, "Critical race theory! Critical race theory!"
Chill out, folks. I'm willing to guess that no public grade schools in the US is teaching this book.
She relates how the GOP reacted against Obama during his first term as President:
Oklahoma senator Tom Coburn, tried to defend the president in August 2011 with bizarre and condescending racial stereotyping. "His intent isn't to destroy," Coburn told a constituent at a Tulsa town hall meeting. "It's to create dependency because it worked so well for him. I don't say that critically .... As an African American male, coming through the progress of everything he experienced, he got tremendous benefit through a lot of these programs." The racism and the racial idiocy were dizzying.The Republican Party has been on their current trajectory for a while. Less than a decade after the situation Joan described in her book the Grand Old Party was storming the Capitol on January 6.
It was also well organized. Hillary Clinton exaggerated a little when she talked about "a vast right-wing conspiracy" against her husband in 1998. Yet ten years later, an intimidating nationwide apparatus of overt and covert right-wing character assassins, fearmongers, and race-baiters made the anti-Clinton Arkansas Project look like a friendly fund -raising group for his presidential library.
Rush Limbaugh had the loudest single voice within the anti-Obama media movement. He set the tone for the leaderless Republican Party when he announced on the eve of Obama's inauguration, "I hope he fails." Limbaugh went on, "We are being told that we ... have to bend over, grab the ankles, bend over forward, backward, whichever, because his father was black, because this is the first black president," a glimpse of right-wing psychosexual anxiety I'd rather not have seen.
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