Dog Whistle In The 13th

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In the documentary 13th, it portrays events occurred to African Americans from slavery to present time. The term dog whistle are words conveyed to people who are said by a political candidate to inform society about a particular subject such as the phrase “Nigger”. Centuries before the phrase was acceptable as in today’s society it is defined as a racial word to disclose also known as racial epithets. Forced busing was enforced and various crisis rose due to dog whistle. Dog whistle then proceeds into the southern strategy, this strategy was used by Richard Nixon in order to persuade southern white Democrats and poor white people to join the Republicans by intriguing them stating to decrease the use of drugs and crime and to backlash the civil

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