Why Is the Black Vote in the Democrats’ Pocket?
It is here that black Americans found themselves attacked from the top and from the bottom. Forty years ago most black Americans were used to being physically and socially restrained to an extent. However, what happened to black Americans in the 60s is that their enemies found a way to accomplish what the physical barriers of slavery, the legal oppression of northern segregation, and the overt terror of Jim Crow could not.
The mental chains
At the top, President Lyndon Baines Johnson — a Democrat whose pre-Kennedy legislative career had been that of a typical Dixiecrat — put forth a set of programs and policies infamously known as the Great Society, actually giving a part of the public funding to those who qualified to receive it. The bottom line? Many of the programs amounted to life subsidy — “reward” for indolence, whoredom, and irresponsibility. At the bottom, liberals, leftists, and Democrats inserted themselves wholesale into the educational processes of the black poor. That education put forth a portrait of America as a full-scale villain, which made her history unneeded — except the parts necessary to understand the crimes perpetrated on her perennial victims. With that in mind, why would liberals, leftists, and Democrats teach their captive audience about the historical role that their political opponents played in setting and keeping them free? Between the manipulation of education and the government handouts by Democrats, the Left could even convince black Americans that it was the Republicans who had actually been black America’s oppressors — and that idea, that lie, would become far more useful to the Democrats than any Great Society program, as LBJ allegedly foresaw.
An even more serious deficiency has been nurtured by the systems dominated by leftist philosophies of education, and that deficiency leads us, finally, to the answer to our question.
Too few people put enough thinking into principles — their nature or, of utmost importance, their foundation. As a matter of fact, what many people call principles aren’t really that, but are commodities — items to be bought and sold. And it is one’s principles — or one’s commodities — that inform the decision as to whom one should give his/her allegiance.
Example: consider the admonition to “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Or is it “do unto others as you suspect they would do unto you”? Or “do unto others before they do unto you”? Or “do unto others as they’ve already done unto you and not one minute before they do”?
Like all other axioms, the Golden Rule has its origin in a way of thinking, a school of thought — a philosophy, in this case, biblical. One forms his/her principles from a philosophy, usually one or several taught at school and/or at home. Now I can’t speak for what is taught in all homes, only my own. However, I can authoritatively say that few bases for forming principles — as opposed to commodities — were taught at the public schools I attended in South Central Los Angeles. Barely were the particulars of our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, and our Bill of Rights covered. Of course we had heard the phrase “unalienable rights,” but what did that mean, really? And the men who formed these words, these ideas, and built a nation on top of them, where did they get these ideas about rights and government from? Did they just pop up, unbidden? Or were the men simply building on the philosophies of someone(s) else?
Who knew the answers to these questions? Not I; not then. Where I went to school, one was taught what to think, but not how and definitely not why. One was not taught how to build a foundation for one’s principles or that a foundation needed to be built.
Into that vacuum jump many notions, but the one specific to the subject at hand is the idea that the party which is giving you the most things — the one that will “do something for you” — is the party to which you should belong. And if “principles” have no foundation, those “principles” — and their owners — can be purchased. And though there are a few black so-called conservative Republicans out there, all too many of them — like Watts — still find themselves reverting to the “do something for us” idea, a liberal Democrat ideal. No wonder some believe that our political persuasion is grounded in advantage rather than principle.
The Democratic Party has counted on this absence — of history taught/learned and of principles adhered to — in all of its members, but most especially has it counted on this dearth in black Americans, a dearth which has allowed too many black Americans to stick themselves to the Democratic Party like glue, or chain themselves to the party like …
The Democrats should take pride in a job well done.
Sometimes I think a case could be made that LBJ deliberately set out to destroy the black family with the not so Great Society pogroms, uh programs. Frederick Douglas said “Everybody has asked the question. . ‘What shall we do with the Negro?’ I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are wormeaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature’s plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! “
Don’t overlook the role of the mainstream media in this phenomenon. And not just the US media. When the BBC covered MLK’s 40th anniversary back in April, a report on its main evening news bulletin contained the following line (I’m quoting from memory, but the key words, which I’ve capitalised, are exact):
“It’s a mark of the esteem in which King is held that EVEN REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE JOHN MCCAIN is attending the celebrations.”
Read as: Republicans are racists, and it’s amazing that McCain had the gall to show up.
The BBC reporter, incidentally, was black – presumably to lend ‘authority’ to the coverage. The word tokenism springs to mind.
Did McCain not fight against MLK day in Arizona. One of the stupid fights of his life. How can black people trust him after that?
Broadsword,
There were actually two left movements in the sixties. The Great Society programs did indeed cause some problems and make others worse, but you can’t overlook the far left movement that was telling the young that learning to read was acting white. And not every Republican was color blind. The mainstream Democrats and Republicans might have had an easier time coming togethr to correct mistakes had the radicals not intervened. The messages received by young blacks were not easy to sort out.
When a human being hands over the responsibility of his personal welfare and happiness to another, it is called self-induced slavery. As such the former will forever be trapped in a life of frustration and anger over the latter’s inevitable inability to satisfy those needs. I feel no pity.
The Democrats enslaved the blacks, began the KKK, endorsed lynching and segregation. That should be enough. Now they destroy blacks via welfare and social programs.
And this “government should do something for me” attitude is so un-American it’s repulsive. America was built and thrived upon Individualism.
Democrats, and folks like JC Watts (who I admired…until today), are too afraid of losing the black vote. And they don’t understand nor care about AMerica. Conservatives believe each person yearns to be a productive member of society. Liberals do not. They just care about not being called “racist.” The media is a good example of that in their biased coverage of the election.
I don’t think there is any amount of reaching out/affirmative action/government program/reparation in the world that will satisfy those who in their hearts seek revenge for past wrongs (which may not have even occurred in their lifetimes), so if the Republican party is not willing to bid for votes with that currency, things will remain the same demographically.
Clearly if one studies and believes God’s word, vengeance belongs to God alone. Human beings will only cause themselves and others harm by seeking revenge. “When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.” – Chinese Proverb
It isn’t easy, but the only real solution is forgiveness and turning over the anger and revenge-seeking to God. Are there any black American Christians who have this view?
MLK: It depends on why he fought it. If someone proposes MLK day (or MLK Boulevard, or what have you) to honor a brave man, that’s one thing. If he fought it in that case, he’s a prick. However, if it was proposed to make white people feel guilty (which I’ve seen done) and he fought it on those terms, that’s quite another.
Why would the Left want to have an honest discussion about race? For the same reason they have no incentive to teach our children properly in public schools: the current situation works great for them! It gives an ideology that should be an extreme fringe, largely confined to the dustbin of history, a fighting chance to win elections. If blacks, en masse, dropped the victimhood excuses, they’d probably divide along ideological lines similar to whites. If that happens and Democrats no longer win 90-95% of the black vote in every election. Democrats would have almost no chance to win another presidential election – or control of Congress – for decades. -author unknown
Leave it to MLK to illustrate the point of this article. Form over substance. MLK day was a pure feel-good political maneuver which doesn’t bestow any real tangible benefit to black Americans. A perfect example of the kind of political trinkets that most blacks have been settling for in lieu of real progress.
When will it end ? Black people are different than brown people who are different than white people who are different than choose your shade of pigment. We are all different, so what has that got to do with anything, it is just a fact. Time to move on people, all people.
Absolutely brilliant article. I have noticed that most Democrats, even the educated ones, tend not to think in terms of principles.
As to J.C. Watts, I remember watching C-Span’s coverage of Newt Gingrich speaking to newly elected Congressmen when the Republican Party, for the first time in 40 years, won control of the House of Representatives. Former College professor Gingrich (indicted by the Democrats for teaching a course on political principles. Look it up) was giving homework to the Congressmen: Read the Federalist Papers and other founding documents. The camera lingered for a moment on J.C. Watts, whose body language and facial expression made it clear he had no intention of doing any homework. A few months ago, I attempted to rebut an article Watts had written for his local paper. I won’t waste the effort on him again.
Welfare destroyed the Black family in the North because if there was a man in the home, the woman and children didn’t get any help. A friend of mine from Texas noted that Texans hadn’t been that generous with welfare and the Black family remained intact.
Government money for poor black people usually got (and gets) intercepted by so-called spokesmen, so more money is called for because the poor still aren’t being helped.
Like alcohol and drug addicts, entitlement addicts always want MORE!
Up until the 1960′s, low income families were like others. Most consisted of a husband who worked and a wife who took care of the children, maybe took in some ironing or sewing, and went to church as a family on sunday. The welfare program Aid to Families With Dependent Children (AFDC) was originally designed to help children whose fathers had died. In the 1960′s, AFDC evolved into the main source of regular income for millions of poor American families resulting in unintended consequences. First, it helped to breakup the family unit. No payments were available, if the father was living in the home. This created “back window dads”, who lived increasingly outside the home, and climbed through the back window to visit his family. This lessened both the father’s self esteem, and his feelings of responsibility. Soon they were climbing through the back window of other fatherless households. Secondly, the program encouraged child birth to trigger or prolong benefits. Thirdly, there were few incentives to join or rejoin the workforce, as entry level jobs could not provide the standard of living provided by AFDC. Several generations of children grew up watching their relations sit idle watching mindless TV, often ingesting drugs or alcohol. There is still poverty, but now there is little work ethic or personal responsibility. Just people looking for the easy way to make a buck.
So, the democratic mutual admiration society, i.e. his highness, Barack Hussein Obama and his democratic cronies met behind closed doors … and, then upon leaving the meeting, graced us with glowing reviews of Obama’s humility and his inevitability to win in November. Then, for the umpteenth time, Obama told us how his 6 countries in 9 days photo op, proved how he is now a qualified expert in foreign policy. Then, he refused to acknowledge that the surge worked. Yes … I would call Obama a presumptuous arrogant empty suit, who is being packaged and agressively marketed to the American people. What a grand deception. I urge all Americans … if you really love this country, and you don’t want to see it turn into a third world country … make sure you … and everyone you know, vote for Senator John McCain in November!!!
Australia’s welfare system has also created an underclass of single mothers and wild chidren. They are pretty much all WHITE. There is no history of “them and us” and so the welfare policies destroy lives to the benefit of the welfare admins but there is creation of social hatred.
Great work, B.
Coonsidering that the Great Society and other programs were watered down versions of what most politically engaged blacks wanted (including MLK), why are we going on with this charade? Society gave them what they wanted because blacks were profoundly cheated in the past. You can argue the long term merits of this, but please stop this charade that you really care, cause I don’t anymore. If they want to celebrate criminals, whores, and rappers, they don’t deserve any respect. Blacks don’t go read campaign literature or thesis of radical professors, but politcians and academics used(sometimes still) flock to hear some Black Panther type mau mau them. This is just nothing more than right wing political correctness: instead of the old racists being responisble for all black problems, it’s the liberal whites, and as PC, it is just lies and politcial posturing.
If all these programs enacted by liberals are so horrible, why do almost all black groups support them? Those blacks are either crypto racists themselves, just don’t care about their community or the negative effects of those programs are overstated! The Klan doesn’t support affirmative action or gun control, does that make them enlightened and non racist too?
As was pointed above, the Dem’s are a collection of aggrieved minorities, its their animating philosophy. If you don’t want something from the government, you don’t have a home there.
Government can transfer money, a check, but cannot transfer wealth creation, which each person brings to the table. So, its a short-term fix, appropriate for those temporarily at the bottom, and long-term poison that atrophies each person’s wealth-creating abilities.
So entitlements become self-inflicted servitude.
The explanation was the point of the essay.
Care to explain to me how I am racist against my own race by pointing out how we have been mis- and under-educated into aiding in the destruction of the black family?
You make good use of clean and fresh sheets (hopefully). Does that make you a Klansman?
It’s very simple: the GOP let the bigots take over.
Javelin: If all these programs enacted by liberals are so horrible, why do almost all black groups support them?
**Because it maintains the status quo for them: a victim class to point to, elicit societal empathy and/or guilt, direct huge amounts of government (tax payer) money to them, and carry out vote buying for liberals.
I’ve seen this said before many times. Which specific GOP policies are emblematic of this alleged bigotry?
This is the same (so called) rational road Republicans always seem to find comfort navigating. Find other rationals’ to lean on.
I always admired Watts for what I perceived to be his political philosophy and I am very disappointed if the quotes are accurate.
I liked the comment about the pursuit of happiness because this is what our country’s approach to government fosters ( when it functions as the founders intended).
I could understand Watts if he said he was troubled by the recent direction of the Republican Party but to consider voting for a Democrat is utter foolishness.
Most Blacks when confronted with the circumstances of their political leanings claim not to be monolithic, but the facts show otherwise.
Actually, our Constitution supports individual life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness but not any group or collective.
Sofa50:
Why?
Brad:
Then you are saying that those black groups don’t give a hoot or hate their fellow blacks? If all these programs are so horrible for blacks, then why isn’t there a movement away from them in the black community? If blacks don’t care about themselves, why should whites care? A
Actually, they would rather conjure up bizarre conspiracy theories (racist lies) and skewer a harmless bigot here and there so they can keep collecting the checks.
baldilocks:
You take offense because your reading comprehension is subpar. Please tell me what I said was untrue or just shut up.
There are two erroneous conclusions in this sentence.
What you said was untrue. And since you are the one who is responding to my essay, advising me to “shut up” makes me believe that it would be reasonable to call your reading skills into question.
I’m sure that this was just an oversight on your part, however.
As a Southerner who grew up in East Arkansas (I was born in 1944) and who has always had a keen interest in politics, I am very aware of a practice which existed before I was born and which continues to this day: Democrats pay cash to blacks for their votes…simple and as stark as that. I have observed this phenomenon many, many times…I have complained about it to anyone who would listen, yet it still continues right here in my small home town, every election. Democrats pay cash to black people in exchange for their votes. I am confident that this practice exists all over the South, and is amazingly open for all to see.
Thus the practice of blacks demanding something in exchange for their political support is far more prevalent and far more personal than may be widely understand.
In my defense: I am using the term “black people” not to apply to all African Americans, or even all those in my part of the country. I do know that the ancient practice of payment for votes by Democrats does apply to a majority of black people here.
“the Democratic Party wants to provide happiness to black Americans”
Good luck with that. Any reasonably-competent mental health professional should be able to tell you that other people can’t MAKE you happy, it’s all on you.
the immigrant issue would be one of them. not all Hispanics have crossed the border recently. wanting to expel all Hispanics… chaps my hide to have my American heritage questioned.
I have had this feeling that the government wants me to be beholden to them for everything. why can’t i be self sufficient? life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. seems most people aren’t learning that.
Javelin: I see that I misunderstood who you were referring to in this sentence.
“Those blacks are either crypto racists themselves, just don’t care about their community or the negative effects of those programs are overstated!”
I apologize.
Again, however, I stress that the above is (mostly) false, for the reasons I stressed in my op-ed.
I haven’t looked it up, and I haven’t seen anyone put the question to Mr. McCain himself, but it’s possible that he wasn’t fighting against MLK Day per se, but against Yet Another Government Holiday, or against getting rid of Washington’s Birthday and Lincoln’s Birthday as separate holidays to accommodate it.
FWIW, I’ve seen the case made that America has been so blessed with citizens who made a profound contribution to our society that if everyone who deserved commemoration got it in the form of a government holiday, there would be no working days left on the calendar!
“It’s very simple: the GOP let the bigots take over.”
Care to list some examples? And no, I’m not an “R”
The security of a government handout to a collective group is always more comforting to those restrained then the risk of the free market system with its emphasis on the individual. The Dems promised collective security through handouts -the Republicans promised individual accountability. Guess which one was easier to choose.
Mike, Mccain opposed the MLK federal public holiday. Hence “even…..John Mccain…”
I’ve been wondering what it is that I’m supposed to “owe” black people. As a person who is 25% Apache, I should ask them for reparations as it was the Buffalo Soldiers that chased down and abused my ancestors. The other three grandparents arrived in the USA in the early 1900s. So where did I or mine have anything to do with slavery. As a former Detroiter, I have seen a once nice metropolis turn to crap with the aid of the black professional welfare recipients and crooked black politicians. Far as I’m concerned, don’t hold your breath waiting for some hand out from me. They should learn to act less like the gangsters they like to emulate, and more like educated, upstanding citizens that many of them would love to be seen as.
Good on you, baldilocks!
End of the 50s, Black poverty rate was about 55%.
Now, Black poverty rate is about 25%
During Reagan’s term, there was a change to welfare that lowered the amount of money people receiving welfare could have saved in the bank. What do you think the result of that change was?
During Reagan’s terms, there was a change to welfare that made harder for a man to be in the household and the family receive welfare.
Many black Americans cannot shake the notion that a political party is supposed to provide quid pro quo.
Well, many Americans believein the notion a political party is supposed to provide quid pro quo. THis is the reason why some public evangelicals are publicly questioning ties to the GOP.
And the GOP plays identity politics. They specifically target Cubans, are going for the general “Latino vote” although the white nationalists wing has demonstrated very well exactly how the Latino vote goes Democrat more than Republicans think. The GOP specifically goes after Jewish people using Israel as the carrot. Then there is the targeting of evangelicals
Does anyone ever stop to think how an individual’s life experience plays into their beliefs? When I was a kid (born 1953)I would go to work with my dad because he was a parapeligic. The shipyards were very diverse. I remember wondering why black folks could drive such nice cars but live in horrible shacks. Now obviously I had no idea that they were being kept out of “white” neighborhoods. And the reason I didn’t know that was because near our home was a beautiful neighborhood with homes that I could only dream of living in to this day. Again, I did not know that middle class blacks had gotten together to buy the land and develop the neighborhood. The babbling point I am trying to make is that it takes a while to mature and become aware of things, to embrace people who don’t look or live like you do. I think that’s why I give older folks a break on their prejudices, they aren’t right but it is based on a history for them.
Let me get this straight:
1) There are more Democrats representing the Black community (black voting wards and districts) in all aspects of government (and education) today than ever before.
2) As I scan the US Census for the top cities where Blacks are most concentrated these same cities have City Councils that are from 65% to 100% Democrat. Mayor’s offices about the same percentages.
3) Almost universally the school systems are turning out subpar results.
4) The streets are not safe
5) The local economic development is anemic
6) Health care issues such as HIV infection rates and rates of STD infections are above normal.
Despite all of these sad facts……the Black Democratic loyalists asks “What has the Republican Party done to earn the Black vote?”?
When “da man” is in the mayor’s office, sheriff’s office, school board chairs and sitting on the bench in the court room – it might indeed be a good question to ask. When the Democrats that you favor enjoy such a dominant position over you, however, such a question appears perverted.
Clearly we are at a point where the new question must be “With the Black community being more isolated into cities and schools that are increasingly segregated……can the people that we POPULARLY FAVOR operate with a set of leadership policies that enable our community to leverage as many of its internal resources as possible to maintain the standard of living that we all desire?”. In so many cases the answer is NO!
It is time for the Black people who care about our end goals above our ideology to develop a set of COMMON GOALS that all (most) can agree upon as being sound. We need to begin to dispassionately appraise our policy assumptions against these goals. Those policies which don’t provide forward motion toward the attainment of these goals need to be purged. If the Black community fails to implement a more objective means of evaluation of our POPULAR political agenda that is reinforced upon us then we should content ourselves that we have done everything necessary to remain as we are today. The ability to BLAME AN EXTERNAL ADVERSARY for ones downfall is the key escape valve that prevents true INTROSPECTION of certain flawed policies from happening.
I must admit this election with Obama as the potential first Black president has been of great distress for me. No for the assumed reasons though. This distress is because it makes me see what makes many of my people tick. The mass marketing of the “MLK – Dreamer / Obama – The Dream Come True” T-Shirts along with the “Got Change?” messages shows me that this election has been abstracted from the domain of pure and dispassionate evaluation of policy and effectiveness in addressing the great challenges that our communities face. Instead Obama has been taken to the “ML King / Untouchable” stratum among some people. It is simply unworkable for our community to promote such a concept about a POLITICIAN and ONE MAN. Clearly anyone who rightly opposes some of his initiatives will be said to be like those who “stood against King”.
Some of this urban marketing of Obama is in the same light as that of “Chris Brown” or “Lil Wayne” t-shirts that I so frequently see. I literally can’t distinguish an Obama shirt from a Chris Brown t-shirt until I come up closer to the person wearing it. (and I have good vision – no glasses)
As I look at Obama’s policy to increase federal spending on education by only $18 billion and the loud applause as to the CHANGE that this is going to make for our failing schools – it is clear to me that many of our people lack the concept of LOGISTICS that would allow them to see that $18 billion spread over 50 states is little more than the $12 billion spent by “Evil Bush” over Clinton during his first budget proposal as president. Only the sentiments felt about each respective man as rendered from our community provide for the distinctions in reception for these federal educational spending programs and the “hope” that our schools will improve in kind.
I am grieved in that so much of our core interests as a community are given to ideological and partisan manipulation. If our core issues were being addressed by this popular force that dominates our people I would be forced to shut up because the overwhelming evidence would be clear. Instead there is masses consternation and the response by those who SHOULD BE held accountable is that we need to “unify” because Obama’s election in and of itself represents the VICTORY.
I would much rather have wide spread improvement at the local levels where we are most concentrated than a Black president of any party or ideology.
Clearly we have lost our way.
I enjoyed reading that Baldilocks.
The constitution provided for life, liberty, and the PURSUIT of happiness, not the PROVISION thereof. I think there are some things the government does that help, but the Great Society (many of those programs, not all, but many) was a poor example of good government. The taxes that came along with it did little to provide happiness, and did much to impede the pursuit thereof. Granted, I’m all for providing help to those less fortunate, but I’d like to give of it freely to causes I feel are worthy, as opposed to having it taken from me to be given to causes I feel are unjust. The difference between charitable donations and welfare is that one is good, and comes from the heart. The other is government sponsored stealing.
I say the same also for Medicare and Social Security. They will bankrupt this country if they aren’t reined in.
Good onya, Baldilocks. Emailed your article to four American friends. One is black… and he votes Republican, LOL! Unfortunately, the other three (white JFTR) are still caught up in the Obamamania.
MLK holiday: I still object to the MLK holiday. He did important and good things, but he was not of the importance and stature of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, whose holidays were eliminated to accommodate the MLK holiday. There are many other Americans as well, of greater importance and stature, like Benjamin Franklin and FDR.
I tend to like this line of non-logic that follows:
2) As I scan the US Census for the top cities where Blacks are most concentrated these same cities have City Councils that are from 65% to 100% Democrat. Mayor’s offices about the same percentages.
And more scanning shows the Black population moving from those areas to the South where economic expansion is occurring.
3) Almost universally the school systems are turning out subpar results.
Which just isn’t a city situation but I give it about another 10 years and suburbanites will realize what their schools aren’t doing.
5) The local economic development is anemic
Even with this, the creation of businesses is being lead by Blacks at a higher rate.
6) Health care issues such as HIV infection rates and rates of STD infections are above normal.
And there’s nothing a politician can do about that one.
Despite all of these sad facts……the Black Democratic loyalists asks “What has the Republican Party done to earn the Black vote?”?
Sure, what is so odd about that except that it’s Black folk?
Farmers scream they want politicians to do something for them, like subsidies that help keep inefficient farms/farmers around. Pays for them to plant nothing. And both parties are “doing for people” (HAH!) concerning the mortgage lending mess.
But it’s some how Blacks that are so different?
Clearly we are at a point where the new question must be “With the Black community being more isolated into cities and schools that are increasingly segregated……can the people that we POPULARLY FAVOR operate with a set of leadership policies that enable our community to leverage as many of its internal resources as possible to maintain the standard of living that we all desire?”. In so many cases the answer is NO!
When 75% of Blacks aren’t poor, most Blacks are middle class and above, the rate of Blacks attending and graduating from college is still increasing, why is “Black community more isolated” a correct statement?
Or is the definition of Black community being used meaning the minority of Blacks who aren’t doing well?
And as I always like to ask, why is that the same venom directed towards Jewish voters who vote 80-85% for Democrats?
End of the 50s, Black poverty rate was about 55%.
Now, Black poverty rate is about 25%.
So, if you look at that statistic, what does that state?
I may not like the strong ties of Blacks to Democrats, but when the GOP, born out of abolition, for the most part refuses to even state their beliefs to a group of people based on race, why is it surprising that the same group refuses to give that party a good look?
Here is something else to twist your noodles if people really want to THINK about the situation instead of bash the “non-thinking Blacks.”
Michael Steele said he needed 20-25% of the Black vote to win. He got 25-30%, exceeding his goal and getting 3 times the percentage of BLack votes in Maryland that Blacks normally give REpublicans. Ehrlich received 20% of the Black vote, which is about 2 times more than Blacks normally give the Republicans in Maryland. That’s after Ehrlich’s first term where he went to Blacks and did things for HBCUs in Maryland, which had been traditionally underfunded.
Ken Blackwell, a Black Republican, prior to the last election, received more than 50% of the Black vote.
Mike Huckabee said he received more than 40% of the Black vote.
Jackie Winters, a Black Republican in Salem, said she receives a large majority of Black votes in her elections.
Why isn’t all of this information put out there when people criticize Blacks for their voting habits?
The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the – Web Reconnaissance for 07/31/2008 A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often.
…The Republican Party that Buckley, Goldwater, and Reagan (re)built…
Accurate alphabetically but not historically. The conservative movement was founded by Barry Goldwater. William Buckley and the social conservatives joined the cause and were, at the time, called new conservatives.
I sympathize with Ms. Ochieng’s (baldilocks?) frustration with African Americans. Not many years ago, I watched in amazement and disgust as New York Jewish voters replaced Alphonse D’Amato with Chucky Schumer. New York Jews never had a more dedicated or more effective political advocate than the Italian-American, Roman Catholic, Al D’Amato.
My Jewish friends and neighbors would take great umbrage at the suggestion they were plainly prejudiced to prefer one of their own, albeit unknown and untested, to an Italian American who kicked ass for the Jews with both feet. They’re liberal and progressive and hold advanced degrees. They love Italian food and art and they can show you pics from their trip to Florence. They would never sink to such primitive tribalism.
Re LBJ: Hindsight quarterbacking of history is a dicey business. It leads to imagining of causality and intent that never existed. LBJ’s empathy with the poor was entirely natural. Joseph Caro’s sweeping biography paints a brilliant picture of the mean Texas soil LBJ rose from. His affection for poor Mexican Americans was deep and genuine. As a poor young Texan, he taught poor Mexican American schoolchildren.
If LBJ was a reformed Dixiecrat, more credit to him. He grew up in an environment of racially restricted living spaces, traveling spaces, eating areas, drinking fountains and bathrooms. He was a plainspoken, earthy Texan, proud of his Texas-size natural endowments which he would regularly haul out to shock and awe males and females alike. He also had a Texas-size heart and his intentions for the Great Society were only the best.
Otherwise an interesting piece from Ochieng. All honor.
Darkstar, my son, you have a vivid imagination. Your “framing of the rebuttal” is not “square”.
[quote]2) And more scanning shows the Black population moving from those areas to the South where economic expansion is occurring.[/quote]
Darkstar – Please go back and listen to the STRATEGY as communicated by Civil Rights leader Bayard Ruskin in the wake of Martin Luther King’s death. Ruskin told of a meeting with the key King lieutenants in which they answered the question “Where do we go from here?”. Ruskin’s PRESCRIPTION perfectly captured the strategy which the CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT made the wrong turn into a POLITICAL organization rather than one which was pursing the BEST INTERESTS FOR BLACK PEOPLE. You see Darkstar, Ruskin said: “we as a people must insure the control of our community and the benefit that stems from it by 1) getting Black people, 2) elected as DEMOCRATS, 3) in the seats that represent our communities”
Darkstar – by any stretch of the imagination THIS PLAN HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL on the front end. Black folks did their part on the front end. The problem is that the BACK END benefits
have not been delivered in a wholesale way and thus……as you say those who CAN, MOVE OUT!!
Take a peek at Clayton County Georgia Darkstar. 100% Democrat run after years of struggle. Majority Black population. Should be a UTOPIA. Instead….Black folks who can are MOVING down to the two Republican counties to the south in order to insure the proper education of their children.
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Which just isn’t a city situation but I give it about another 10 years and suburbanites will realize what their schools aren’t doing.[/quote]
Again DarkStar – the TAKE OVER of the schools by OUR PEOPLE was supposed to be the magic fix. Are you now admitting that the people who propositioned you for your vote mislead you? In any event how do you plan to PUNISH the failure that they have delivered to you? Or will you simply be pacified if and when the suburban people have a collapse and thus they join your misery?
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5) Even with this, the creation of businesses is being lead by Blacks at a higher rate.[/quote]
Excuse me DarkStar – perhaps you need to do a bit more research. The fact is that while indeed there are a lot of Black businesses that incorporate…..the vast majority of them are one man shows that are using incorporation for tax purposes only.
This is not the original article that I was looking for but it gets across the message that yes more businesses are created but most have one employee: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m4021/is_n6_v18/ai_18352294
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6) And there’s nothing a politician can do about that one.
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Darkstar – did you watch the CNN Black In America series? The MESSAGES from “leaders” are a key factor in this issue. While Malveaux and West are not politicians they and the politicians say words that shape the environment that is at play within our community. Their key flaw, however, is that their ideology has them bound to the perverted notion that the GOVERNMENT can set up a frame work by which the PEOPLE are protected from their own actions by “pills, pamphlets and devices handed out by the government”.
[quote]Farmers scream they want politicians to do something for them, like subsidies that help keep inefficient farms/farmers around. Pays for them to plant nothing. And both parties are “doing for people” (HAH!) concerning the mortgage lending mess.[/quote]
Darkstar – FARMERS are a PROFESSION. Please tell me how a RACE OF PEOPLE is to be compared to a PROFESSION or an interest group such as the NRA?
[quote]When 75% of Blacks aren’t poor, most Blacks are middle class and above, the rate of Blacks attending and graduating from college is still increasing, why is “Black community more isolated” a correct statement?[/quote]
DarkStar – let me cut to the chase and ask you:
ARE YOU SATISFIED that the maximum number of Black people are graduating high school, graduating college, living a lifestyle up to their full potential?
It seems to me that you are getting defensive. You are putting forth the notion that our Middle Class is fully intact and that all is well. I guess the news that Indianapolis Public Schools only graduate 19% of their Black male students sits well with you? After all – our middle class is “rolling”.
Take a peek at Clayton County Georgia Darkstar. 100% Democrat run after years of struggle. Majority Black population. Should be a UTOPIA. Instead….Black folks who can are MOVING down to the two Republican counties to the south in order to insure the proper education of their children.
That doesn’t respond to my points with the stats.
Again DarkStar – the TAKE OVER of the schools by OUR PEOPLE was supposed to be the magic fix. Are you now admitting that the people who propositioned you for your vote mislead you?
You don’t know me very well. Look here please and read.
Excuse me DarkStar – perhaps you need to do a bit more research. The fact is that while indeed there are a lot of Black businesses that incorporate…..the vast majority of them are one man shows that are using incorporation for tax purposes only.
The vast majority don’t have employees but to say they are for tax purposes only is your comment without any proof. I had a software consulting business and I was the only person involved. Businesses start from somewhere and starting from a point of one employee is not shameful.
Darkstar – FARMERS are a PROFESSION. Please tell me how a RACE OF PEOPLE is to be compared to a PROFESSION or an interest group such as the NRA?
They, as a group, are dependent on the government’s handouts, yet where is the disdain directed towards them, when many of the things they beg for and receive cause higher food costs in the U.S. and the subsidies they get to send their food overseas has actually destroyed the farm businesses of some third world countries. An example is rice farming in Haiti.
Sorry, I won’t allow you to change the topic. Either a majority of Blacks as American society expects or they are not. The fact is, overall, we are. However, liberals and conservatives insist on defining the Black community by it’s minority of dysfunction vs. the majority of achievement.
Someone mentioned that Australia’s welfare system served to destroy the family structure and work ethic of poor whites and not blacks.
Things in the UK are much the same. The underclass that has been created there through the dole consists almost entirely of white people. There is even a term for them: Chav. Some say that this is short for “Council-house And Violent,” but I’m not sure. A Council-house in case you’re wondering is the UK term for the projects, and there are entire cities in the UK that consist of nothing but council house estates.
My wife is from the UK, and her description of chavs and the council estates was so uncannily similar to US ghettos and housing projects that it was genuinely eerie. Take away the pale skin and british accent, and a UK chav could be dropped into a US slum and fit right in. All of the same social pathologies that the left created here through handouts have been created there…in spades.
No matter where you are in the world, evil never sleeps and stupid never dies.
I found your editorial very interesting and informative. I also throughly enjoyed the “give and take” of the comments.
I look forward to reading your blog regularly. Can you provide information as to how I can make a contribution to the school?
It is sad that Obama personally promised and did not deliver, but he promises a lot to a lot of different people.
Charles Barkley said it best: “Poor people been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years, and they still poor.”
Charles Barkley said it best: “Poor people been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years, and they still poor.”
Barkley is an idiot.
1959: 55% of Blacks were poor.
2005: 25% of Blacks were poor.
Obviously the former NBA star, Barkley, was generalizing, but I think he was alluding to the fact that many of the Democrats’ give-away social programs have achieved little in the way of opportunity or prosperity for those recipients who have become dependent on these costly programs and have opted to rely on the programs, generation after generation, rather than pursue opportunity and prosperity (their “happiness”) after initial and truly-needed assistance.
Your 2005 statistic shows that many Blacks have chosen the path of pursuing their prosperity. Great success story!
As an aside, it’s interesting to note that if a non-Black author wrote Ms. Ochieng’s article, that author would be branded a racist, ill-informed or someone rewriting history.
DarkStar: Obviously the former NBA star, Barkley, was exaggerating by that statement, but I think what he was alluding to was the fact that the Democrats’ give-away social programs have achieved little in the way of opportunity or prosperity for those recipients who’ve come to enjoy the give-aways and, as a result, have become addicted and totally dependent on the programs, generation after generation. The 2005 statistic you provided illustrates a great success story and indicates many Blacks have pursued opportunity and prosperity the past 4 decades.
Juliette makes some excellent points in this article, but the fundamental–if not exclusive–reason why most blacks will vote for Obama is that he is (half) black.
Granted, blacks have predominantly voted Democrat ever since LBJ wrote off the South and adopted blacks as the sole possession of the Democrat Party but 2008 is different. This year they have, as my Irish mother used to say, “one of their own,” a factor which sways even J.C. Watts.
I still recall the thinking in 1960 in my Irish-American community in the Bronx. Most people were registered Democrats anyway but the Dem nominee then was “one of our own,” John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and come Hell or high water, they would vote and fight for his right to become President of the United States.
Even in Ireland, JFK had rock star status and his picture hung in virtually every living room in the country before, during and after his presidency. (Those pictures only came down after his tendency to too easily drop his pants, but that’s another whole story.)
Picture yourself as a black in America. It’s been drilled into you that your lot in life is not your responsibility but rather has been determined by evil racists–mostly Republicans, despite the fact Republicans passed the 1964 Civil Rights Bill over the protests of racist Democrats.
Forget the blatherings of Bill Cosby who pleads with you to take responsibility for your lives and stop blaming others. This is your chance to make a statement, make a difference, and vote for change for the sake of change. Vote for the guy who’s (half) black even if he is unqualified.
Senator Obama may or may not win on November 4th but if he is the victor, America loses. He will have been elected on the basis of his color, not because of the content of his character.
Blacks vote for democrats because slavery weeded out the ones with a spirit of independence. what we have left are those willing to vote for master as long as master gives him food, clothing and shelter. And bling. And excuses.
Don’t forget that the the democratic party was the party of slavery and is the party of the KKK. Senator Byrd isn’the last of them.
Gene, the % of blacks that we can expect to vote for any democratic candidate is about 90%. Black candidate or white.
So black racism, while strong, isn’t the only reason why 90+% of blacks will vote for Obama.
Gene:
You are exactly right. Yours is a brilliant piece of analysis. It’s such a sad commentary.
If one’s voting for a candidate on the basis of race (putting shared ideology, personality, and other factors aside) isn’t racism, I don’t know what racism is. As a white conservative, I will vote for anyone who shares my views and principles, whether he/she is black, white, yellow, purple, or green. Isn’t that what Dr. King aspired to?
Picture yourself as a black in America. It’s been drilled into you that your lot in life is not your responsibility but rather has been determined by evil racists–mostly Republicans, despite the fact Republicans passed the 1964 Civil Rights Bill over the protests of racist Democrats.
The Civil Rights Act would not have passed without Dems nor would it have passed without Repubs.
He will have been elected on the basis of his color, not because of the content of his character.
Lynn Swann was put forth as the Repub nominee despite having no political office background. He got toasted, but Republicans had no problem then. In Maryland, Republicans were saying Blacks needed to vote for Michael Steele BECAUSE he is Black. Republicans had no problem then.
Here is the mirror.
Native Africans for generations, have exhibited a tribal or clanish mentality . Some modern day African Americans have descendents that were brought to this continent in bondage as slaves, before and after the founding of the United States of America. The Democrat Party was the party of slavery. The Republicans were the party of abolition. After the Civil War the Republicans were victorious in abolishing slavery.
Two circumstances explain the Blacks support of Democrats. First is their inheirited tribal mentality that condemns them to act as a group rather than individuals. Most black Americans today identify themselves as victims of slavery in opposition to the fact that none of them were ever slaves, and a majority of them aren’t even descendents of slaves.
Secondly this tribal cohesiveness has allowed them to become inflicted as a whole with a variation of Stockholm Syndrome that has been passed down through generations. Since the Democrats were their main oppressors during slavery they have become emotionaly bonded and interdependent on them and refuse to cooperate with the party that actually gave them freedom. This is a symptom of Stockholm Syndrome.
To learn more of this syndrome click on
http://www.nurturingpotential.net/Issue13/Stockholm.htm
Poverty Rate:
1959: 55% of Blacks were poor.
2005: 25% of Blacks are poor.
Educational Attainment:
2005
High school +: 80%
Some college +: 44.7%
Bachelors +: 17.3
1966
High school graduate: 28.5%
4 years college: 2.3%
5 years+ college: 1.3%
This occurred under the Dem reign. Stockholm that.
From the Republicans for Black Empowerment Group survey:
What might be most notable, especially to those in the GOP, was the following question: “Which party do you think best serves the interests of black Americans?” Of self identifying black conservatives a full 49% of those questioned replied that neither party served the interest of blacks. This begs the question, how many blacks who would naturally tend toward conservative values vote democrat by habit or simply do not vote at all? And why is the Republican party seemingly content to continue to ignore this demographic?
Jewish voters vote Dem 80-85% of the time. No commentary on that though. Interesting, to say the least.
When black candidates start presenting themselves as Americans, and not African-Americans and not black Americans, I’ll start voting for them.
Jesse Jackson said it best, when he his off-the-cuff remarks about BO were quoted. He lambasted BO about “telling n*****s” what to do. That is the problem with the black community. Any criticism about them is racism. They refuse to make the hard choices to fix their own problems. I have written of the black community as completely dysfunctional. When they start acting white, I’ll change my mind.
There is a clear thought process that runs through diversity race doctrines that attempts to keep minorities on the socialist reservation within the Democrat Party.
Whites are a danger and are cheaters because they are too quota successful in the US. Diversity doctrines hate and blame whitey for all quota unsuccessful issues; economically and socially. Hence, you see Dean race baiting that the Republican party is for Whites only.
The other aspect is the slave or hopeless peasant mentality that the masta owes you a good life. That masta is whitey and diversity doctrines promise the free lunch and even institutiolnalized preferences at whitey’s expense. This plays into the diversity’s value of tribal revenge. It is superior us against the inferior them.
Democrats have always been racist and now they play to diversity’s Black and Brown racism for power. Racism’s hate, fear and blame is a uniting and powerful force which Democrats (leftists) have always used for power. College students see this diversity racism all the time but all of America got to see it in Rev. Wright, Obama’s preacher.
Democrats have managed to pretend there is a double standard for hate in the US diversity culture they have carefully engineered. But there is not and Obama is going to find that out the hard way that playing to Black hate and revenge for power worked in Chicago; but not on a National stage.
Unfortunately, there is much confusion about the two parties when it comes to Blacks and the civil rights movement. Many Americans in general are unaware of the history:
1. Many forget or do not know that the Republicans are the ones who were against slavery and led the charge to abolish it. In fact, the Republican party was formed in the first place in opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act that would have allowed the expansion of slavery into Kansas.
2. Martin Luther King Jr. (and Sr.) was a Republican. His niece, Dr. Alveda C. King confirms this. (See website links below for proof.)
3. The Democratic National Committee conveniently OMITS the history tied to Democrats and slavery, segregation, opposition to the constitutional amendments that gave Blacks rights, their part in the creation of the Ku Klux Klan, and much more. In fact, they have sanitized themselves from historical reality and over the years have managed to pin the Republicans with the “Old, white people” racial prejudices. (See Wall Street Journal article link below.)
The Republican party has changed somewhat over the years, but still endorses the same values that made them against slavery in the first place. One of the fundamental beliefs of Republicans, which is often miscontrued as self-righteousness and elitism, is that government should teach people to do more for themselves versus having government do it for them. In the long run, which approach, when embraced and put into practice, is really better for the individual? Think about it…
http://www.civilwarhome.com/republicans.htmh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_Republican_Party
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121856786326834083.htmlhttp://www.trustedpartner.com/docs/library/000143/Alveda%20King%20article.pdf
http://www.nbra.info/
An Open Letter to Senator John McCain and the Republican National Committee:
September 2, 2008
Dear Senator McCain and Mike Duncan, Chairman, Republican National Committee:
“Dear” is all you will get from me. By now you all should be in Minneapolis for your shindig that you call a “convention.”
I am an African-American, and I cannot hold back my anger any longer. It is a documented fact that the Republican Party before and during the Civil War supported and benefited from slavery. As a matter of fact, the Republican Party was started for the express purpose of defending slavery and holding down black people.
It is also a matter of record that the Ku Klux Klan was started by Republicans after the Civil War to terrorize and murder black and white Democrats in the South. Republicans hated the fact that many ex-slaves were serving in state and federal government. They also hated the fact that everyone of the ex-slaves were all members of the Democratic Party. All the white Democrats, before and after the Civil War, were sympathetic to the cause of abolition of slavery and of civil rights for blacks, therefore racist Republicans had no use for them.
The Republicans historically have been bitter opponents of the following Democratic initiatives:
• The 13th Amendment that abolished slavery in 1865
• The 1866 Civil Rights Act
• The First Reconstruction Act of 1867
• The 14th Amendment in 1868 that made all persons born in the U.S., including former slaves, U.S. citizens.
• The 15th Amendment in 1870 that give every citizen the right to vote
• The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 which was to stop Republican Klansmen to terrorized white and black Democrats
• The 1875 Civil Rights Act
• The 1957 Civil Rights Act
• The 1964 Civil Rights Act
• The 1965 Voters Rights Act
In every case, the white Republicans in the Senate, especially Senator Everett Dirksen, and in the House of Representatives fought passage of these laws in every turn as well as being compelled to give up their slaves after the Civil War. The Democratic leadership, especially Senator Robert Byrd who has always despised the Ku Klux Klan and who discouraged white Americans from joining that gang, fought very hard to have those laws passed. Democratic Senator Al Gore Sr., not only voted for the Civil Rights Act in 1964, but he, along side of Senator Byrd, fought a 74-day filibuster by Republicans to defeat the legislation. The Congressional Quarterly of June 26, 1964 recorded that, in the Senate, only 69% of Republicans (46 for, 21 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act as compared to 82% of Democrats (27 for, 6 against) the Civil Rights Act. In the House of Representatives, 61% of Republicans (152 for, 96 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act and. 80% of Democrats, (138 for, 34 against) voted for it.
The Republicans have also opposed every Democratic anti-lynching bill to their shame. The Democrats have always been opposed to lynchings for decades.
For these reasons, we black people deserve an apology from the Republican Party for the following:
• support of slavery, on record in their platforms
• support of the Dred Scott decision
• support of segregation and Jim Crow prejudice
• opposition to anti-lynching laws
• attempts to destroy black schools and colleges, and the burning of black churches
• efforts to defeat the Reparation Bill of 1866
• efforts to defeat every piece of Civil Rights legislation from 1863 to 1964
• efforts to have the 1875 Civil Rights Act declared unconstitutional
• support of the Ku Klux Klan, composed of entirely Republicans, and its vile and violent racist agenda:
• Republican participation in the lynchings of thousands of blacks.
History will also show the following:
• Eugene “Bull” Conner (the poster boy of American racism) was a Republican.
• The poll tax was a Republican institution.
• Black codes and Jim Crow laws were instituted by Republicans.
Africans Americans are even due reparations from the Republican Party since it supported and benefited from slavery as well as supporting KKK terror, racism, etc. The Civil Rights movement started because of the majority white racist Republican power structure in the South.
The Democratic Party, of course, has had its problems racially here and there, unfortunately, but it does not have the consistent racist legacy for decades and decades, stretching back to the early 1800’s as the Republican Party has had. The Democratic Party, in general, has always been supportive of and open and honest with African Americans throughout its history.
You Republicans have been very slick in ignoring and even hiding your racist past from black people. It is time for the Republican Party to come clean, tell the truth, and settle the debt.
Sincerely,
Brother X
“The Congressional Quarterly of June 26, 1964 recorded that, in the Senate, only 69% of Republicans (46 for, 21 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act as compared to 82% of Democrats (27 for, 6 against) the Civil Rights Act. [SNIP”
“In the House of Representatives, 61% of Republicans (152 for, 96 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act and. 80% of Democrats, (138 for, 34 against) voted for it.”
Actually the record is the reverse in both the House and the Senate.
Which brings to mind these question, Brother X: was your error an accident or a bit of disinformation? And how much more of you information would be found to be in error with the slightest bit of investigation?
I see this at the heart of every republican, conservative or racist that blacks were let down by special programs. We were brainwashed into accepting handouts. We are looking for someone to give us something. That’s garbage. Blacks were still being subject to discrimination, unequal pay, white flight, and unequal due process in the law. We still are today. Why is there a disparity in drugs? Why is it that 35 percento of blacks between working age are in or around the poverty level and even more over retirement age? How does the upper management in any of your companies fair when it comes to diversity? Why is it that the median pay for blacks is less than whites? Until all of this is tackled blacks will work to make this right. Some will over use it too but the majority only want a fair stake and opportunity. My mother was on welfare and I have never been on welfare. I have worked since I was in highschool. I don’t see this prevalent anymore. Nowadays you have a certain length of time to be on welfare and have to take some classes or training to help you get off of welfare and once off that family usually stays off of welfare. Not one of my family members use welfare. We had 9 kids, grandma, cousins living with us and made it. Nowadays you can’t live off of welfare. Back then you could make it. No one wants to live on welfare but the ones who need it and some that want to be lazy. Other than that what entitlements are you talking about? We wouldn’t even be this far without the programs. We would still be in 1960. Who believes in this crap? I say the few that spoil it are not that great and are being used to try to rationalize hate for blacks and the bitterness of seeing blacks try to get out from under the coat tails of slavery, racism and jim crow. Why should you care that the government is trying to invest in its people and get them to function as a better society or part of a productive one unless you are racist or jealous and selfish?
Juliette Ochieng, I read your piece on ‘Why is the Black Vote in the Democratic Party?’ I do not agree with your personal philosophy on how prominent Black Americans should vote. Every since the Civil War Amendments have been passed into law, whites still hold truth to “there are not laws for Black people which white people will obey.” The Rev.Dr. Martin Luther King gave a powerful answer to the white clergy while in a Birmingham Jail about “waiting.” He said wait from them means, “it never will happen.” If any American wants to change his or her mind about who to vote for because the preferred party says ‘wait until the next time’ then you do the waiting for them. The best thing a registered voter should do is vote his or her conscience. May I suggest to you, ‘vote yours!’
My previous comments were based on facts and the truth if by moderation you’d mean Censorship you are pretty much on your way to become an honorary member of the black communist party of America or a commissar. The truth never lies.
I hope the RNC (Rush, Newt, Cheney) puts Sara Palin on the ticket in 2012. it would be nice to destroy that nonsense again.
Martin Luther King Jr was a REPUBLICAN
full story
http://www.examiner.com/x-13590-New-Orleans-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m7d5-Black-conservativeMartin-Luther-King-Jr-was-a-Republican
I recently had the opportunity to be attacked by a democrat – it is funny how they ALL say the same thing. The media Do have them trained to repeat the same rhetoric as if it were the pledge of alleagience. They cannot originate independent thought and are incapable of progresing beyond the ;handout’ phraseology when questioned about spending. I am not trying to lump the all together but in my personal experience I am noticing the pattern.
the democrats never stopped being racist, they changed from overt to covert, offering a sweet poison to the black community. not only did welfare set back the black community, but abortion kills much higher proportions of black babies. the democrat program is genocide, but it is cleverly concealed to look otherwise.
I am not Black, but I am in tune with you. A prestigious brother engineer I worked with in 1970 (A Black)was a Real Role Model and I told him that I bet he is a Real Role Model for the kids in his neighborhood, to which he said: “It’s not like that. When I go home I change clothes, change how I talk and change how I act because if I didn’t, I would be ostrasized.” That hurt! But thats how the Democrats want it. They, like all socialists, want to keep you down so they will own your vote!
The Republican Party is a long way from perfect and we must improve it, the most important for Blacks being: free schooling and board for all Americans who make the grade in what ever subject they choose,from Science to Auto Repair. The G.I. Bill after WWII proved that is a good investment for everyone, not a risk. I have paid taxes a thousand times over for my G.I. Bill education, to say nothing of my enginering contributions.
I solute you as American Patriots in our time of Peril.
Because they are dumb and don’t know history. The democrats created the jim crow laws, the kkk and are for slavery. The republican party has always been anti slavery and pro black. But the democrats have created a propaganda war over the last 60 years and made it seem like they are the minority party and the republicans are the racists. Read some history and you’ll see the truth.