Max Boot
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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I mean, he had black teammates at Eureka College.
He brought them home when they were not allowed to stay at a segregated hotel.
So his own personal feelings were actually – he was pretty good personally.
I don't think he was personally a racist, but I think the reality is he did indulge in kind of dog whistle politics from the beginning of his political career.
all throughout.
And it began in 1966 when he really won in part on a law and order appeal after the Watts riot.
And basically there was, you know, massive fear of, of, of crime in California.
And a lot of it was white suburbanites fearful of black inner city people committing crimes.
And he, he played into that and said he was going to protect them.
And later he talked about welfare Queens and how they're ripping us off.
And a lot of people understood that to be code words, uh,
uh for black people on welfare uh and then as you mentioned um he in
You know, in 1980, he went out to Neshoba County, Mississippi, a site of a horrible crime during the civil rights era, and talked about how he was in favor of states' rights.
And by the way, throughout his career, he was opposed to civil rights legislation.
I mean, I think a lot of people didn't realize this, that later on, that he had opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
He opposed the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
He criticized Martin Luther King.
He opposed sit-ins and protests saying that they were breaking the law.
He talked about how desegregation was very unfair to the South and it was really an imposition on the South.
So he definitely played to a lot of white backlash politics throughout his career, even though I think he himself was not really racist.
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