Do ewe idiots remember Colin Powell, Condeleeza Rice, Allen West, and on and on and on and on? Dew ewe remember what the left called them?
I know people who are related to Alan West and they call him a sellout. Rice and Powell were sellouts and only in recent years have stood up against the racism in the republican party. You can go on and on, but the black conservatives in this article do not represent the philosophy of the black conservatives republicans have pushed out in from of the American people. Most of you in here will not like black conservatives like the ones who are part of this movement.
‘Racism in the Republican Party’. Do you think it is unique to the Republican Party and does not exist in the Democrat Party?
Look, the republican party is opposed to all policies that have allowed blacks to inch closer to equality and have done so since Goldwater opposed the civil rights act. That is the difference between the p[arties today.
Factually speaking, Goldwater supported the propose Civil Rights Legislation of ‘57 and ‘60. Kennedy opposed Civil Rights legislation a few short years earlier in ‘57. Neither man was opposed to Civil Rights.
I do tire of whites trying to argue with me about this. There is a reason black republicans did not support the republican platform or candidate in 1964 and called both racist.
Tire yourself all you want but that does not change the fact that Goldwater opposed the legislation in ‘64 but not Civil Rights just as Kennedy did in ‘57. What is disturbing is how almost overnight many Democrats with names like Fulbright, Gore, Byrd... who spent years pushing segregation now all of the sudden embraced the Legislation and are credited for “supporting civil rights”.
Again, there is a reason blacks condemned Goldwater and the republican platform of 1964, walked put of the convention, supported Johnson and publicly declared the platform and candidate as racist.
You republicans spend a whole lot of time lying about your history. I know all about those democrats you named and Al Gore Jr was not his father. Later on Robert Byrd apologized and publicly denounced his past position. Meanwhile:
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Strom Thurmond apologized too yet that did not stop Democrats from excoriating him over the years. Byrd oversaw a group that terrorized, assaulted and killed Blacks. Thurmond was a segregationalist. Big difference. The bullshit factor is the that Blacks and Democrats stood shoulder to shoulder with Byrd not because of his apology but simply because he had a (D) at the end of his name.
Strom Thurmond stayed racist and didn't apologize until he was on his death bed. I didn't like Robert Byrd and never voted for him. Nor did most every other black person unless they lived in West Virginia. You talk about Byrd and I'm talking about your party's opposition to civil rights, affirmative action and racial equality up to right now. Look at these republicans here in this forum, so **** that shit about Robert Byrd, you 've got people like Steve King, Kris Kobach and other white supremacists in your party today. And spare me your whining because you support trump and all his bullshit only because he has an R by his ******* name.
Republicans led the charge for Civil Rights for decades. Democrats got on board for political capital, that’s it. The Civil Rights legislation that Democrats got behind came packaged with more power to the Federal Government which is what Republicans opposed, not Civil Rights.
Democrats didn't get on board for "political capital". They got on board because Kennedy told them to. Keeping black people down and denying them economic opportunities was increasing poverty for the whole nation. Holding people back from achieving their full potential is economically destructive and just plain stupid, that once there were no legal impediments to hold black people back, they immediately started rising out of poverty.
Just look at the drop in poverty that ensued from the economic opportunities which the Democrats under Kennedy and Johnson opened up for blacks and other minorities. If just those things gave the entire country a huge economic boost and helped created today's black middle class, imagine the economic boost across all classes if the economic potential of all Americans were suddenly to be unleashed.
That is true. The republicans in their race pimping strategy fail to note that American poverty was cut in half by the Johnson War on poverty, meaning that it worked. Black poverty has remained double that of whites even with more high school and college graduates and an the development of a black middle class. So then when I continue saying that the root cause of the problems blacks face is white racism, these are some of the reasons that support my conclusion.
The 1617 Project really opened my eyes to the effects of economic racism. How the systemic refusal to enforce the "40 acres and a mule" promised to every freed slave never happened, and when it did, how the KKK and other white supremacist groups drove blacks off the, burning their homes and prevented them from getting an economic footfold. Blacks weren't allowed to buy land since only property owners could vote, in some states, and if they could find a piece of property to buy, they couldn't get a mortgage. Since land ownership is the foundation of generational wealth that black Americans have never been allowed to participate in.
Then there's the domino effect. If you don't live in good neighbourhoods, the schools aren't good, reducing your chances at a good education. Also schools in more expensive neighbourhoods have more extra-curricular activies under which you can get a scholarship to college, giving white kids more chances at getting scholarships to college. Inner city schools have on average 9 athletic programs under which students can apply for scholarships, suburban schools have, on average 14 such programs. Colleges have golf teams, fencing teams, rowing teams, swimming and diving teams, as well as football, basketball, hockey and baseball, and a host of major and minor sporting teams, all of which offer athletic scholarships. Inner city kids have fewer options and therefore fewer scholarship opportunities.
Then there's "legacy" admissions. 30% of college admissions go to the sons and daughters of alumni. Affirmative action for lazy white kids. But it guarantees that the sons and daughters of the elite will continue to have a favoured status come admissions applications. Every time someone says "What talented white kid was denied admission to Harvard so Obama could get in" I am reminded that C student George W. Bush, was admitted to Yale because his Daddy went to Yale and I wonder what talented poor white kid was denied admission of Yale so the Shrub could get in.
In today's day and age, legacy admissions are being questioned as unjust and unfair. Just as significant numbers of black almumni are getting ready to sent their kids to college. Nobody thought they were "unfair" until black kids could qualify for them.
Exactly. This forum is full of disingenuous people who only want to maintain advantages for whites. Their arguments show it.
They bought into the bullshit Republicans tell them. Pay no attention to American CEO's who decided they could make more money having their products made in China. It was the Chinese who stole your jobs and screwed you over on trade. And these fools eat it up with a fork and spoon.
Who MADE the money by offshoring?
Gay marriage? Free Healthcare for illegal aliens? Global Warming?
Maybe you support trannies peeing in the Ladies room. That's probably another issue big in the Black Community.
Black pastors do not approve of that. Or abortion. No sir!
Tim Scott is leading the effort to recruit Black voters to the GOP. The Dims must get 90% of the Black vote to win elections. That has been their formula since the late 1960's. Tim is a good guy. He says Trump will get at least 15% of the Black vote in 2020. If he is correct the Dims are toast.
Scott is a good Republican
He hasn’t drank the Trump Kool Aid
He sees a trend of Blacks moving away from the Dim Party. I believe he is correct. The issues I listed
Gay marriage? Free Healthcare for illegal aliens? Global Warming? Those speak to white urban progressive snowflakes. There is no Dim message for Black America. None.
Blacks are not moving away from the democratic party. You want that to be true but, you will learn that it is not. Republicans are the ones with no message for blacks. All republicans have is gaslighting.
And upward mobility in America that is non-government dependant.
Upward mobility in America no longer exists. More people are now falling out of the middle class into working class than are rising into wealth. The American middle class is shrinking.
Under Donald Trump, the gap between rich and poor is increasing, and at a faster pace than it grew under Obama.
All of this was true BEFORE Trump crashed the economy.
So Marion, the racist fool Is getting screwed just as badly as any wage slave flipping burgers.
The college debt racket no ensures you will never have a life. An acquaintance is helping to send his niece to college. It’s a good private college that I had never heard of but others spoke well of it for her major but the tuition is $63,000 per year for 4 years. Holy ****!
When she graduates, she’ll be making $40,000 per year. My tuition was $2000 per year for for years and when I graduated I was making $20,000 per year. I didn’t owe the price of a house and a new car for my education.
My daughter was born when I was 23, we bought our first house the following year, and my first new car a year after that. i couldn’t have done any of that if I’d owed even $50,000 for my education.