Racism

A Message to White Conservatives About Calling Out Hate

Y’all need to chill with the hateful rhetoric

President Lyndon B. Johnson meeting with civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr., Whitney Young, and James Farmer in the Oval Office in 1964 | Public Domain

Over the last 75 years, you, white conservatives, have overwhelmingly given your support to the Republican Party. If we look as far back as the Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) campaign in 1945, Republican presidential candidates lost the white vote only once…