Black people already know that the Republican Party doesn't like Black People

[MrScorpio]

So, to have Republicans bitching about the fact that 95% of blacks voted for Barack Obama is par for their dumb ass course.

The Republicans claim that Black racism was behind support for Barack. Calling us "racists"... nice try.

If Republicans want more than the crazy, self-hating Uncle Tom vote from the Black Community, they need a better approach.

On the other hand, it's no mistake the first Black President is a Dem.

And when we finally have the first woman prez, I'll betcha dollars to donuts she'll be a Dem too.

[Uzybone]

1. All true

I like how they also ignore that Democrats have gotten 85% plus of the black vote since the 70s regardless of who was running.

[crispini]

2. Damn right!

:toast:

[Doityourself]

3. They can shove it! Black have been voting for whites for years, white Democrats that is...

When Irish-Catholics voted in large numbers for JFK, was it an issue. What about the way evangelicals voted for Bush, or other republicans?

They can bite it!

[Kutjara]

4. The Republican Party doesn't like anyone.

They're the party of greed, period. They'd just as soon turn on one of their own as any black/latino/female, if they felt that person was standing between them and a dollar. The dirty secret of Republicanism is that they hate each other as much as they hate us. They just find it more profitable to behave as if they get along.

[MrScorpio]

9. They see ordinary people as just another resource that they can exploit

Yesterday, I heard some Republican woman say how essential it is for the economy to have immigrants function as nannies to "help the economy". :wtf:

They think that we don't hear what they're saying.

Like every Republican, they think we're idiots that will fall for their bullshit.

Black people in this country have been burned far too much and far too long to by the likes of the Republican mentality.


My hope is that we will join forces with all the other victims of the white ruling class and progressives of all races against Republicanism.

[political_Dem]

12. I couldn't have said it better. They only know how to exploit all of us.

[Captain Hilts]

5. Republicans would have voted for Colin Powell. They don't like black Democrats. nt

[Lilyeye]

13. Yeah, but it took no time for them to turn when he wasn't kissing their asses.

[Captain Hilts]

15. His national approval ratings are still VERY high. No doubt a lot of this comes from Rs...

[political_Dem]

6. I'd agree, but I have to say this: they know that. That's why they have Bobby Jindal.

They're about to put Bobby Jindal on a pedistal to show that they are welcoming to people of color. And the problem here is that Jindal's an Oxford Scholar and far smarter than Sarah Palin.

[Max_powers94]

7. far smarter than Sarah Palin.??????

Not really

[political_Dem]

8. Could you explain how in a little more detail?

[DrToast]

11. Jindal is smart, but his social conservatism will still turn people off.

[political_Dem]

14. Right, but as they marketed Sarah, they're going to market him too.

The other thing is that people like Leslie Sanchez, Amy Holmes, Michael Steele and Ron Christie are now highly important to them. They'll be put in front of the camera on all the networks to keep up the guise that the Republicans are "open" to all minorities.

They're trying to lead the poultry into Colonel Sanders' boiling pot.

[DrToast]

10. A better question is why weren't 95% of whites voting for Obama.

[kimmerspixelated]

16. Typical Ignorant racists were forced to hold a giant mirror to themselves

but they just wanted to look away, look away!

Fuckheads! There is a special place in hell for them.

But, I have come to the conclusion that the true, old school, dyed in the wool rethuglicans, could care less what color anyone is as long as they are able to bend over properly while they rob them blind. The old school rethugs also could care less about religion and only pretend to focus on morality, because they think it will bring in more votes. Hypocrites on the shining city on the hill have no soul worth bearing, and when confronted with a big, giant mirror, pause aghast because there is no reflection in there at all!! Zip-Zilch!

[theothersnippywshrub]

17. The republican party made a deliberate, calculated and conscious decision to alienate black voters.

Opposition to the Civil Rights Acts and the adoption of the Republican Southern Strategy are what drove black voters away from the GOP. Prior to the enactment of the Civil Rights Acts and the subsequent adoption of the Republican Southern Strategy, the black vote was split between the parties. In 1956, Eisenhower got 39 percent of the black vote. In 1960, Richard Nixon received 32 percent of the black vote. In 1964, LBJ got 94% of the black vote.

The huge swing between 1960 and 1964 was because of the strong opposition to the the Civil Rights Acts by Barry Goldwater, William F. Buckley Jr. and other conservative republicans and because Martin Luther King Jr. changed from being officially neutral in the 1960 election to opposing Goldwater in 1964.

. . . .

King's neutrality changed dramatically by 1964. King declared that though Barry Goldwater was not racist, his positions gave aid and comfort to racists:

I had no alternative but to urge every Negro and white person of goodwill to vote against Mr. Goldwater and to withdraw support from any Republican candidate that did not publicly disassociate himself from Senator Goldwater and his philosophy.

. . . .

http://www.nationalreview.com/george/george071200.html

In fairness to republicans, the Civil Rights Acts were opposed by most Southern democrats (of which there were many) and by Southern republicans (of which there were few). However, many of the then prominent racist democrats are now known as republicans; Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, Trent Lott, Phil Gramm, and many other racist "dixiecrats" switched parties.

Shortly after the passage of the Civil Rights Acts, the republican party decided to alienate the vast majority of black Americans in favor of appealing to racist and bigoted Americans. That decision was the basis of the Republican Southern Strategy. In 1970, one of Richard Nixon's political strategists, Kevin Phillips, talked about the Republican Southern Strategy in the following terms:

From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that... but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

And one of Ronald Reagan's political consultants and later head of the RNC, Lee Atwater, described the Republican Southern Strategy as follows:

You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say "nigger"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is blacks get hurt worse than whites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

Republicans have no one but themselves to blame for black Americans voting in overwhelming percentages for democratic candidates. That was one of the intentional aims of the Republican Southern Strategy.

[genna]

18. Every jacka** that got on camera and gave the blacks are racists screed during the primary and

general election made me curse at the screen. They don't say that b.s. to our face when they need our vote, do they?

What did they expect? When you say racial stuff without understanding the racial grounds you are walking on, how do you expect black people who hear you to react? Say, oh no they didn't mean it. I'll vote for them anyway.


I don't think so.


This election showed minorities a couple of things.

#1 The MSM will say anything to direct our vote. For example, Hispanics and Blacks don't get along so they will vote for a different candidate as a consequence! WTF!


#2 When we vote in a coalition with a minority of whites, we win. It seems to me that those who blame the racial scape goating game whether it is affirmative action or it is immigration blame will feel that built up wrath on election day. It is sweet especially when the MSM gives us a script of what we are supposed to be thinking about AND the communities haven't forgotten the last two or three things the candidates/party did to forsake us.

[Catherine Vincent]

19. Word!

They look like idiots whenever they make that claim. If the repukes nominated an African American to run for president and most Blacks switched over and voted for him THEN they can claim that most Blacks voted for the candidates because he's Black.