Ian Haney López interviewed on Moyers & Company, February 26, 2014
“Dog whistle politics doesn’t come out of animus at all,” Haney López tells Moyers. “It doesn’t come out of some desire to hurt minorities. It comes out of a desire to win votes. And in that sense, I want to start using the term strategic racism. It’s racism as a strategy. It’s cold, it’s calculating, it’s considered, it’s the decision to achieve one’s own ends—here, winning votes—by stirring racial animosity.”