Republicans also never allow black voters into their top ranks.
The democratic party is now run by a black man
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Republicans also never allow black voters into their top ranks.
The democratic party is now run by a black man
I have known for a long time that the Democrat Party of the 1960's-70's successfully completed one of the greatest political achievements in American history: Getting black people to vote Democrat.
It should go without saying that this was a truly amazing feat.
And of course to this day minorities still overwhelmingly vote Democrat.
Why?
Recently a black republican wrote a small blog that has found it's way in newspapers columns and think-tank columns, television discussions etc. etc.
Here is a portion of that article:
Once the Civil War ended the struggle for equality began. Most blacks saw the Republican Party as the party of freedom and during Reconstruction this was true. Reconstruction had to end and the Republican Party became a minority party in the south with very few white Republicans. The Democrats or the three s party, slavery, secession and segregation, had all the power and wielded it with an iron fist. Virtually enslaving blacks all over again.
Blacks in the south were left alone to fight for themselves, their paternalistic Republican Party left them to build alliances of their own. This failed miserably because the last thing the racist south wanted were free blacks, they wanted slaves, free labor and power. The violence that was released upon the freedmen was unbearable and the freedmen gave up their equality to be considered lesser men. (And such as it was for several decades)
When the Republicans tried to help they we rebuffed by the majority, the Democrats. President Theodore Roosevelt tried to intervene through the infamous peonage trials but could not stop the incidents of involuntary servitude. Therefore, blacks felt abandoned even though all the advances of the black race was a product of the Republican Party from 1860 to 1968 they left the party in droves when the Democrats started offering social programs to take care of the little man. Encouraged by the likes of Jesse Jackson more blacks voted Democrat. Because of Democratic social programs more black men left the home in order to let the government send money to take care of his family.
He planted his seed far and wide and when the seed was rejected because the planter would be absent, our precious babies were aborted in the millions, all federally funded by Democratic social engineering.
Republicans kept offering a hand up and Democrats a handout. Handouts being easier they were accepted over a hand up. Even blacks that did not take handouts were glad that they were there so they wouldn't have to be responsible for their brothers and sisters. They voted and still vote to keep government handouts going because it is easier than arguing with those who wont work or taking care of those who cant.
This is a syndrome that has affected all of our society and the Democratic Party has solidified its base of those who want government to be responsible instead of being responsible themselves. I admit that I could be wrong about some of my observations but I think they are rational and supported by history. Why do blacks vote Democrat, because there are so few responsible black men! Many blacks have been duped into a paternalistic psychological slavery where to be taken care of by the government is encouraged, freedom of thought is discouraged and to be different from the group is not tolerated. Clarence Thomas, Condoleezza Rice and Michael Steele along with other Black Republicans are repudiated because they stand for responsibility and freedom, they are not on the Paternalistic Psychological Plantation.
Why Do Blacks Vote Democrat?
There is no such party in this country as the "Democrat" party.
And the argument here is equivalent to saying that diabetics are "enslaved" by providing them insulin.
Now that is the dumbest point I think I have heard so far this year on this forum.
Why? People are in trouble, you offer them help. But that this creates "dependence" is exactly what you're saying. So, would they be less "dependent" if they DIDN'T get any help? Or would they just be SOL?
What keeps people (not just African-Americans) poor isn't the availability of aid to the poor, it's the UNavailability of enough opportunities.
it's the UNavailability of enough opportunities.
The Democratic Party has always been a party of slavery and oppression. That has never changed.
There is no such party in this country as the "Democrat" party.
And the argument here is equivalent to saying that diabetics are "enslaved" by providing them insulin.
excerpt-
Economist Walter Williams writing at Townhall.com, March 21:
It's not unreasonable to ask how valuable the variously labeled liberal, Democratic or progressive agenda has been to black Americans and whether blacks should proceed in political lock step with this agenda.
According to an American Community Survey, by the U.S. Census Bureau, the top 10 poorest cities with populations more than 250,000 are Detroit, with 33 percent of its residents below the poverty line; Buffalo, N.Y., 30 percent; Cincinnati, 28 percent; Cleveland, 27 percent; Miami, 27 percent; St. Louis, 27 percent; El Paso, Texas, 26 percent; Milwaukee, 26 percent; Philadelphia, 25 percent; and Newark, N.J., 24 percent.
The most common characteristic of these cities is that for decades, all of them have been run by Democratic and presumably liberal administrations. Some of themsuch as Detroit, Buffalo, Newark and Philadelphiahaven't elected a Republican mayor for more than a half-century. What's more is that, in some cases for decades, the mayors of six of these high-poverty cities have been black Americans.
I'm not stating a causal relationship between poverty and Democratic and/or black political control over a city. What I am saying is that if one is strategizing on how to help poor people, he wants to leave off his list of objectives Democratic and black political control of cities.
excerpt-
Economist Walter Williams writing at Townhall.com, March 21:
It's not unreasonable to ask how valuable the variously labeled liberal, Democratic or progressive agenda has been to black Americans and whether blacks should proceed in political lock step with this agenda.
According to an American Community Survey, by the U.S. Census Bureau, the top 10 poorest cities with populations more than 250,000 are Detroit, with 33 percent of its residents below the poverty line; Buffalo, N.Y., 30 percent; Cincinnati, 28 percent; Cleveland, 27 percent; Miami, 27 percent; St. Louis, 27 percent; El Paso, Texas, 26 percent; Milwaukee, 26 percent; Philadelphia, 25 percent; and Newark, N.J., 24 percent.
The most common characteristic of these cities is that for decades, all of them have been run by Democratic and presumably liberal administrations. Some of themsuch as Detroit, Buffalo, Newark and Philadelphiahaven't elected a Republican mayor for more than a half-century. What's more is that, in some cases for decades, the mayors of six of these high-poverty cities have been black Americans.
I'm not stating a causal relationship between poverty and Democratic and/or black political control over a city. What I am saying is that if one is strategizing on how to help poor people, he wants to leave off his list of objectives Democratic and black political control of cities.
Yet Williams says this in the last paragraph of the article.
"None of this is to say that blacks should vote Republican."
There is no such party in this country as the "Democrat" party.
And the argument here is equivalent to saying that diabetics are "enslaved" by providing them insulin.
Now that is the dumbest point I think I have heard so far this year on this forum.
Why? People are in trouble, you offer them help. But that this creates "dependence" is exactly what you're saying. So, would they be less "dependent" if they DIDN'T get any help? Or would they just be SOL?
What keeps people (not just African-Americans) poor isn't the availability of aid to the poor, it's the UNavailability of enough opportunities.
excerpt-
Economist Walter Williams writing at Townhall.com, March 21:
It's not unreasonable to ask how valuable the variously labeled liberal, Democratic or progressive agenda has been to black Americans and whether blacks should proceed in political lock step with this agenda.
According to an American Community Survey, by the U.S. Census Bureau, the top 10 poorest cities with populations more than 250,000 are Detroit, with 33 percent of its residents below the poverty line; Buffalo, N.Y., 30 percent; Cincinnati, 28 percent; Cleveland, 27 percent; Miami, 27 percent; St. Louis, 27 percent; El Paso, Texas, 26 percent; Milwaukee, 26 percent; Philadelphia, 25 percent; and Newark, N.J., 24 percent.
The most common characteristic of these cities is that for decades, all of them have been run by Democratic and presumably liberal administrations. Some of them—such as Detroit, Buffalo, Newark and Philadelphia—haven't elected a Republican mayor for more than a half-century. What's more is that, in some cases for decades, the mayors of six of these high-poverty cities have been black Americans.
I'm not stating a causal relationship between poverty and Democratic and/or black political control over a city. What I am saying is that if one is strategizing on how to help poor people, he wants to leave off his list of objectives Democratic and black political control of cities.
Yet Williams says this in the last paragraph of the article.
"None of this is to say that blacks should vote Republican."
excerpt-
Economist Walter Williams writing at Townhall.com, March 21:
It's not unreasonable to ask how valuable the variously labeled liberal, Democratic or progressive agenda has been to black Americans and whether blacks should proceed in political lock step with this agenda.
According to an American Community Survey, by the U.S. Census Bureau, the top 10 poorest cities with populations more than 250,000 are Detroit, with 33 percent of its residents below the poverty line; Buffalo, N.Y., 30 percent; Cincinnati, 28 percent; Cleveland, 27 percent; Miami, 27 percent; St. Louis, 27 percent; El Paso, Texas, 26 percent; Milwaukee, 26 percent; Philadelphia, 25 percent; and Newark, N.J., 24 percent.
The most common characteristic of these cities is that for decades, all of them have been run by Democratic and presumably liberal administrations. Some of themsuch as Detroit, Buffalo, Newark and Philadelphiahaven't elected a Republican mayor for more than a half-century. What's more is that, in some cases for decades, the mayors of six of these high-poverty cities have been black Americans.
I'm not stating a causal relationship between poverty and Democratic and/or black political control over a city. What I am saying is that if one is strategizing on how to help poor people, he wants to leave off his list of objectives Democratic and black political control of cities.
Yet Williams says this in the last paragraph of the article.
"None of this is to say that blacks should vote Republican."
thats right becasue , unlike say yourself, he believes that they should vote their interest and conscience freely, as in "None of this is to say that blacks should vote Democrat either, you know like the point of the article?
dismissed.
just as a general note-
its always interesting to see folks flounder, in almost every measure that counts the black race in this country is worse off now than they were say in 1975. Almost every single liberal policy enacted to 'help' has also cost them, and some very very dearly.
Add to that, here we have an openly racist member, ala salt jones who doesn't realize,( maybe he does, as I have never heard him say it or a admit it though), that now that the dem. power structure has owned a huge portion of the present black misery and underachievement, yes, his brothers and sisters in the black congressional caucus reside over some and yea,most of the worst pockets of black misery there are, year after year, decade after decade and then, he and his ilk show up and huff and puff that whitey is keeping them down and that its all unfair or the system is rigged against them....