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Top five racist Republican dog-whistles

Sometimes, there's more to a "gaffe" than meets the eye.

Mittens leaves Number 10 Downing Street. Photograph: Getty Images
Mittens leaves Number 10 Downing Street. Photograph: Getty Images

After an excruciating few days, the Romneyshambles is finally coming to an end as Mitt departs Britain, tail between his legs. It really has been gaffe-ridden, as he's insulted Britain, he's failed to sell tickets to his fundraiser, and he's suggested we aren't doing the Olympics very well (even a stopped clock...). But one of his "gaffes" has a decidedly darker undertone, when an unnamed aide was reported by the Telegraph to have commented that Romney would be a better President than Obama because only he understood the "shared Anglo-Saxon heritage" that Britain and America have.

This sort of statement is known in politics as a "dog whistle". To most people, it looks innocuous, if a bit weird, but to its target audience – in this case, racists – it reads as a perfectly clear statement that Romney is better than Obama because he is white. It's noticeable, for example, that Romney did not bring up the fact that Ed Miliband, the son of Polish Jewish migrants, also does not share an Anglo-Saxon heritage.

Not that this is anything new in the Republican party. Consider Romney's "gaffe" just number 5 in the Top Five Racist Republican Dog-Whistles of all time:

4. Barack Hussein Obama

Quick pop quiz: What's Barack Obama's middle name? Even if you haven't read it from the line above, it seems pretty likely that you know it's Hussein. Now, do you know John McCain's? (It's Sidney) What about Mitt Romney's? (Trick question. Mitt is his middle name, and his real first name is Willard. But even he forgets that sometimes)

There is a reason you know the former's but not the last two. It's because reminding everyone that Barack Obama has, not just a scary foreign-sounding name, but a scary, foreign and Islamic sounding name which is the same as that nasty dictator plays really well with a Republican audience.

To his credit, John McCain never got on board with that angle of attack, even going so far as to apologise for a radio commentator who did. But that doesn't mean the Republican base has forgotten their President's middle name.

3. Georgia's 1956 state flag

Less a dog-whistle, more a klaxon, this one. In 1956, the state legislature of Georgia voted to adopt this as their flag:

which is awkwardly similar to the Confederate battle flag. You know, the one people marched under as they went to war to defend their right to keep people in slavery? That one. Now, Mississippi also has a flag which contains the confederate one, but at least theirs was adopted in the 19th century. Georgia, on the other hand, voted for theirs in 1956, and then proceeded to keep it until 2001. And even when they replaced it, the new one still had the confederate flag on it, albeit much smaller. It was only in 2003 that they successfully de-racisted.

Even then, it still didn't stop being flown in the skies of Georgia – it just flew in less of them. The city of Trenton, Georgia (population 1,942) promptly adopted it as their official flag, and still use it today.

Not cool, Georgia.

2. Ronald Reagan and "States' Rights"

On the campaign trail in 1980, Ronald Reagan gave an infamous speech in Mississippi, where he told assembled supporters that:

I believe in states' rights.... I believe we have distorted the balance of our government today by giving powers that were never intended to be given in the Constitution to that federal establishment.

It is perhaps the archetypal dog-whistle statement. To most people, it sounds like a statement on constitutional law. Yet to the residents of Nashoba County, where the speech was held, it is a clear call-back to what many still viewed as an illegitimate federal imposition: the civil rights agenda. Desegregation was fought bitterly throughout the South, and even drove the government to institute martial law in some areas.

Even worse, the Nashoba County Fair was very close to the town of Philidelphia, Mississippi, where three civil rights activists were shot and killed in 1964.

In that context, saying "I believe in states' rights" sounds an awful lot like saying that Reagan believed that the decision as to whether or not to desegregate should be handed back to the states – and if they decided against it, they should be allowed to. As New York Times columnist Bob Herbert wrote in 2007:

Everybody watching the 1980 campaign knew what Reagan was signaling at the fair. Whites and blacks, Democrats and Republicans — they all knew. The news media knew. The race haters and the people appalled by racial hatred knew. And Reagan knew.

He was tapping out the code. It was understood that when politicians started chirping about “states’ rights” to white people in places like Neshoba County they were saying that when it comes down to you and the blacks, we’re with you.

1. Where's the birth certificate?

The number one racist dog-whistle has to be the relentless accusations that Barack Obama wasn't born in the US. Unlike the others, it's one that has a point beyond propaganda – the "birthers" hope beyond reason that they'll be able to prove he is of foreign birth, and thus render him ineligible for the Presidency – but it serves that aim admirably as well.

The Guardian's Michael Tomasky sums up the thinking of the people who spread the myth:

They likely know no one who voted for Barack Obama, so all the information they received in 2008 that they trusted – not from the media, but from friends and co-workers – led them to search for explanations fair and foul. Acorn and the journalists helped them feel a little better, but they didn't solve the basic problem: that the man occupied the office.

And so, the birther story. Perfect. Explained everything. A conspiracy of immense proportions, concocted all the way back in 1961, had to be the only explanation for how this black man got to the White House. And if you think race isn't what this is about at its core, ask yourself if there would even be a birther conspiracy if Barack Obama were white and named Bart Oberstar. If you think there would be, you are delusional.

Even releasing his actual birth ceritificate didn't stop the crazies, but it did at least get everyone else to recognise them as such, until, at the White House Press Correspondent's Dinner last year, he could safely mock them:

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JennaT's picture

I do so hate it when the media (yes the MEDIA) shout "racism" every chance they get. But on another side of this, in America (and GB i presume) God forbid that any Anglo-Saxon (or Slavic person as i am) should say the word "white" in a mixed crowd, while almost any minority may often and does often proclaim pride in their own heritage. When my Dad first tried to explain to me (i'm 28 now) about the term "white guilt" my first thought was total disbelief. But there you have it....thanks in part to all the thousands of bone-picking media dog-whistlers such as Alex Hern.

Chick-Fil-A Eater's picture

My poor boy Alex Hern, you pitiful bloke...
While there is absolutely nothing wrong with the Georgia 1956 state flag, it was created by DEMOCRATS.

Charles Dickins spoke the truth about the American Republicans, Winston Churchill praised General Robert E Lee. The British Army bestowed the name "Stuart Tank" to the tanks the US gave you during WW2 to honor Confederate Calvary General JEB Stuart. You Brits made us Confederates lots of great ships like the CSS Shenendoah and CSS Alabama.

Please stop being such a W.A.N.K.E.R.!

JEC's picture

Yes, and in 1956, most Democrats in the south were racists. Later, in the 1960s after passage of the Civil Rights act, most of them defected to the Republican party because they didn't want civil rights for black people. Most Dixiecrats are now republicans because of this. Why do people always forget this important piece of history?

Sponk's picture

That's hilarious. The Democrats are still the party of racism. Up until the 50s or so, they were just more explicit. It's simply gone from "black people are incapable of succeeding, so let's keep them separate from white people" to "black people are incapable of succeeding, so let's implement all manner of "affirmative action" programs to help them, and welfare programs to keep them dependent upon us, thus assuring their indefinite support."

Whateverman's picture

What a stupid article. You have to laugh at these self-hating, leftie beta males. The relentless agenda of state-enforced equal outcomes (despite the inconveniantly obvious fact that abilities are very much unequally distributed) has all but extinguished speech deemed to be "politically incorrect". Now the only way that self-hating, leftie beta males can portray themselves as brave "anti racists" (despite actual, real-life racists in 2012 being virtually non-existent) is to constantly redefine this much-abused word. McCarthyism was nothing compared to the witchhunts that people Alex Hern would like to see unleashed on normal everyday folk.

Grady's picture

So you don't think that there are people who are convinced that Obama is not a us citizen precisely because he is black?

IonOtter's picture

Well, if the government didn't enforce the Constitution, then people like YOU would still be lynching black people, running moonshine and raping innocent pigs and canoeists. I'm rather pleased that the enforcement of the Constitution has forced your offspring to evolve? I mean, you and yours are certainly doing all you can to keep your kids shoved down into the slime, but enough of them are escaping from under your rock that it makes you afraid.

And I like that. Your fear, that is? I can smell it. Scared racist. Kind of a cross between 4th of July dead skunk under the porch and the smell of dust bunnies burning in the back of your trailer-park Pentium-II machine you got from the transfer station when nobody was looking.

Lucidus's picture

Another one is the 'accidental slip of the tongue' and saying Osama when you're talking about Obama.

Even after Obama ordered the killing of Osama, you still get right-wing nutjobs trotting out that old favourite.

Sponk's picture

Yes, misspeaking a single letter can only be "RACISM!!!!!"

Other things that are "RACIST!!!!" include, but are not limited to: IQ scores, crime rates, math (or, "maff" if you speak Ebonics), skull shape, musculature, brain size, disease susceptibility, reactions to different medicines, development at birth and rates of development at infancy through childhood, etc., etc., etc. All "RACIST!!!!!" just like reality.

Johnny America's picture

It's humorous to watch Brits try to dissect racism in the USA --- a far more diverse country than their rainy "has been" country. I've been traveling to the UK since 1990 on business and I see far more racism there than here.

From the very Anglo convenience store owner in London who called blacks "darkies" to the judge in Middle Temple Inn who talked about the lesser intelligence of the British blacks which led to their unusually high representation in the prison system. I heard "damn Paki" at least a dozen times in one trip which I wasn't even aware is somewhat like saying n*gger in America.

It is isn't that I think we are over the issue. Not by a country mile. We are all racist to one degree or another. But let's not pretend the UK isn't and let's work together to try and see people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. The British tendency to finger-point at America and Australia (and sometimes even at themselves) is perhaps the last vestiges of the Empire in decline. An unwillingness to admit that the UK is as much the reason for racism as it now seems to think it has the cure of.

Steve Turner's picture

Uh, this story has nothing to do with UK racism? Which I would agree is a problem. Stick to topic. America is a terrible place, full stop.

Steve Turner's picture

Uh, this story has nothing to do with UK racism? Which I would agree is a problem. Stick to topic. America is a terrible place, full stop.

IonOtter's picture

Very true. I saw it too, when I was in Scotland for five months.

But at least the Brits and Scots have the decency to be ashamed about it when they get caught out.

hugh markey's picture

Jiminy Cricket - ever heard that Rebel Yell. No? They sure did in Korea, 'Nam, Iraq and Afghanistan. It sure is fearsome
Funny thing. Those British were canny back then Got us Southern Confederate folks fighting on their behalf. Much like we in the West are getting Arab to fight Arab in Libya and Syria.
You learn somethin' every day in this world.

Mason & Dixie

Anthony  (Little Englander and Proud)'s picture

You wouldn't want to come to my house then , i have a 5 x 3 foot Confederate flag in the middle of my living room wall, not because of the grace of god, I'm an atheist but because I'm a "REBEL" lol - hence i won't do what you or most certainly the state tell me. you and the state don't know whats best for me, i make my own mind up and chose my own path, thankyou.

joe bloggs's picture

Virtually all American blacks, including Obama, have Anglo-Saxon anccestors. Hardly any are pure blooded Africans.

Anthony  (Little Englander and Proud)'s picture

God bless the Confederates , true American patriots , fighting against the Northern aggressors and an out of control government , run by the manic depressive war mongering Lincoln , who wasn't exactly against slavery himself, just wanted to get his hands on all the cotton revenue and couldn't be seen and embarrassed as the president who lost half the country.

Arad's picture

This is a joke, right?

hugh markey's picture

What was it those darn wiseacres used to quip about the Old South? "Segregation in the daytime and integration at nite!" Now you'll of heard of Strom Thurmond, a good old boy from South Carolina or thereabouts. Confederate country, sure was. Strom were a Dixiecrat - fergit your Republicans and Democrats. Served in the United States Senate until he made a hunnnert. One Zero Zero, that's it. Yep, said all the laws in Washington and all the bayonets in the world couldn't force the negro into our homes and everywhere else. No, he din mention the White House. And those filthy rumours about his fathering a mixed race child is just - well, dog whistles.
Yu know 'regime change' goes way back. General Grant and Old Abe showed those(apologies- losers) crackers whose boss. Not that I'm condoning it. Wow, those Yankee carpetbaggers were something. Turned us into a Third World country. Yea, we got country music, sure thing.
You'll never unerstand the joke about Lena Horne and Kate Smith - no way.
And what if those black players in US basketball and football strike. And the Olympic team. Just make more room for decent white folk. What about Hispanics? Wetbacks or border bunnies? Well I dun know. Yea, Canadians OK. They's white.
Afghanistan? We white volunteers would scare the crud out of them hillbillies if'n we could wear our KK outfits. Just give it a week.
Yup, MItt's not an All-American - him being a Mormon sort of . Still, he's got only the one wife and not a passel of squaws. And what's more he's white and birthed in this good ole USA.

Southern Belle

John Cheese's picture

Get out more..all areas have their armpit... It's still segregated in NYC, remember Bensonhurst 1989? No?, google it. LA race riots? LA Dodgers fan parking lot beating death? Ongoing Chicago black on black weekend murder rate? Philadelphia homicide rate right now is aobut 1 per day. You watch too many movies. H0-hum...

Linux Lewis's picture

DOG-WHISTLES FOR THE LEFTISTS

#2 - DIVERSITY ............. Diversity is the left wing dog whistle and code word for the global genocide of White Children. Leftists never say that Asia or Africa lacks diversity, they say they are Already diverse since they are NON-WHITE

#1 - ANTI-RACIST..............Anti-Racist is their code word for Anti-White. You will NEVER meet an "anti-racist" that has a problem with HAITI being a black country. Nor will you ever meet an "anti-racist" that has a problem with JAPAN being for Asians. However, these SAME "anti-racists" also say that EVERY white country needs to be flooded with non-whites to create a blended humanity..... which they call DIVERSITY.......and INTERNATIONAL LAW CALLS GENOCIDE.

Linux Lewis's picture

UN Resolution 260

Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

Article III
The following acts shall be punishable:
(e) Complicity in genocide.

Article IV
Persons committing genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in Article 3 shall be punished, whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals.

Tribunals are coming ANTI-WHITES..........TICK-TOCK

Uncle Al's picture

Well you seem like a jolly nice fellow

Anthony  (Little Englander and Proud)'s picture

Correct in what he said tho !

Anthony  (Little Englander and Proud)'s picture

Correct in what he said tho !

Linux Lewis's picture

in general I am a Jolly Nice Fellow....

but not to anti-whites, anti-blacks, anti-asians, or anti-hispanics

Davidaslindsay's picture

In an interview with the New York Daily News in April 1976, Jimmy Carter said: "I see nothing wrong with ethnic purity being maintained. I would not force a racial integration of a neighborhood by government action." A few days later, questioned about this remark, Carter elaborated: "What I say is that the government ought not to take as a major purpose the intrusion of alien groups into a neighborhood simply to establish their intrusion." Jesse Jackson called this "a throwback to Hitlerian racism." Carter not only won a majority of the Southern vote but also did well among white ethnics.

On 31st May 1968, in a televised debate with Eugene McCarthy, Bobby Kennedy told his Californian audience, in response to McCarthy's support for public housing: "You say you are going to take ten thousand black people and move them into Orange County? It is just going to be catastrophic. A nasty coalition of white supremacists and Israel Firsters, monetarists and Trotskyists gave the nomination to Kennedy after it had removed LBJ, and had been all ready to give Kennedy the Presidency in place of the man who desegregated the Deep South.

Flags have always been Postmodern. Their meaning has always depended on who was looking at them. The stories about them have always been true or false in ways related tangentially, if at all, to strict historical accuracy. Is the Union Flag an expression of Protestant triumphalism, or English oppression of these islands’ other peoples, or British imperial oppression of numerous other peoples, or certain other countries’ failure to grow up and let go? To many people, it is one or more of those things. To some, it is all of them. To this mixed-race Catholic, it is none of them. It is the banner of the Christian basis of this Union, of that Union itself, and of the continuing ties among the countries and peoples historically connected to it.

What, then, of the Confederate Flag? The symbol of slavery, secession and segregation? It has been. It could be. But it need not be. Despite probably not being based either on Saint Andrew’s Saltire or on Saint Patrick’s, it is nevertheless most associated with people whose ancestral connections are both to Scotland and to Ireland. In that sense, whether or not it is itself of either Scottish or Irish origin is immaterial. When you look at it, then that is what you see. And you are right.

Perhaps the original Confederate Battle Flag really was altered, in South Carolina, from a Saint George-style Latin cross in order to include Jews. That is certainly a story expressing a very profound truth, and, as part of the lore, demanding that that flag be rescued from anti-Semites as surely as from those who would persecute the other, duskier side of their own Scots-Irish, Southern family.

For no one who is African-American in the sense that Jesse Jackson originally meant had any shortage of ancestors in Scotland, Ireland or both. The archetypal Scots-Irish flag on the North American continent may be seen as expressing the blood ties between them and whites, especially Southern whites. President Obama is one of us odd cases, but he certainly has Irish in him. First generation African immigrants may not have any Scots, Irish or Scots-Irish, although they very well might have the first, in particular. But immigrants from the West Indies have as much as Al Sharpton or Clarence Thomas, which is a very great deal.

The present Confederate Flag is itself a modification of the Battle Flag. So modification is possible. Turn every other star black, or something? No, that seems ludicrous and condescending. Instead, simply declare the Confederate Flag to be the symbol of all Americans of Scots, Irish or Scots-Irish descent. Of everyone with ties to the South. Of all those who benefit from measures strikingly beneficial both to blacks and to Southern whites, though by no means exclusively so, going back through LBJ to FDR and beyond, and now including universal healthcare.

And of everything on which the two sides of America’s Scots-Irish family now stand united: blue-collar job protection, immigration control, English as the national language, abortion reduction, marriage as only ever the union of one man and one woman, and a strong defence capability used strictly for its proper defensive purpose.

That was the platform of Bob Conley, the Ron Paul-supporting Democrat who in 2008 challenged Lindsey Graham for the Senate in South Carolina. There will be others, and they will be closer to the New Deal and Great Society (and therefore also Civil Rights) tradition when they stand under both Old Glory and Old Dixie because they really believe in what each can stand for, not the day before yesterday, but today, and tomorrow, and the day after that.

Not least, the wider Southern tradition includes the very considerable use of government action, federal as well as state and local, to secure public goods as economically populist as they are morally and socially conservative, and on both counts rooted in activist, anything but liberal, Christianity; truly a cause uniting black and white. And the wider Southern tradition also includes opposition to the waging of aggressive wars by the federal government, wars that harvest the black and the blue-collar white alike.

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But both houses of the Georgia state legislature, as well as the governorship, were under Democrat control continuously until 2003. A bit unfair to say that the 1956 Georgia flag was a case of Republican dog whistles when the state had not elected a single Republican state-wide official, had a Republican-controlled legislature or voted for a Republican presidential candidate since the end of reconstruction.

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@John Cheese: You're trying sarcasm, right?
It's not easy, but don't give up.

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Truth hurts, doesn't it? The left tries so hard to link racism & the current conservatives. Have to go back to 1956 now to find an offensive flag? I admire the effort though..Meanwhile, Obama's GD America pastor is still there in the shadows- hope he keeps his mouth shut till November... The offensive stink of communism wafts it's way thru the People's House ...

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"The offensive stink of communism wafts it's way thru the People's House ..."

If only...

John Cheese's picture

so Alex, eligibility for the POTUS is of no concern? No worries, we always find out the truth sooner or later. I hope for all intents he is eligible, what a legal nightmare otherwise. Hawaii could have put this one to bed early on, but you know about government workers. The left is still scraping for the big one for Romney- just can't quite get a handle on one yet... I think he drank some caffienated ice tea a couple of years ago- better get on that! The Occu-poopers were as violent as the G-8 Summit protesters, awful. Yet our media is still unsuccessfully trying to tie some violence onto the Tea Parties. Keep pluckin' that chicken!

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Wow, such hatred you must have inside you. I feel sorry for you. I really do.

Hawaii presented Obama's certified birth certificate. The same as they would for you or me if either of us were born there.

"I hope for all intents he is eligible." Really? You hope?

That you still doubt that Obama was born in the United States says volumes.

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The issue is watered down, not clear, & it has everyone's panties in a wad. OK, sigh, I'll break it down for you: The issue is eligibility. Hot potato, how to interpret the Constitution. Natural born vs Naturalized. What stokes this is the obama missing records. He could not be hired for his own security force with what he has shown. McCain stepped up in 2008 fast & produced his own actual BC records. Here's what we have now from Hawaii: Certificate of Live Birth (great, he was born live!) & a "vouching" of the real actual birth certificate by Hawaii's Dept of Records. The Gov Abercrombie got in office & said he will produce the real doc. Then, not so much..He's quiet now. Obama's half sister (on record of having been born in Indonesia) has the same Hawaiian COLB that Obama has- no dispute anywhere. Same issue for GOP: Lousiana's Jindal & Florida's Rubio- so, per you, I'm also anti-hispanic & anti-Indian huh? What a moron. Beyond the outrageousness of this, it is interesting. We'll talk in a year or less (when the truth comes out). Our Presidential birthright status paperwork requirements should be well defined and put to bed. If he has falsified info, think about the cover-up drag-down this will cause many parties. Not sure why Hawaii hasn't just shown the real doc. Get it over with so we can talk about the important things like secret underwear and an Olympic horse....

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