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Why should blacks vote for Conservatives/Republicans? How are they currently helping blacks?
And how about you let us know how the Progressives/Dems are currently helping blacks?? Convincing a group of people, any group, they are better off on the government dole for generations is degrading.
My black friends and family realize the importance of hard work and embellish their heritage with knowledge and learning. Equal is equal, not beneath, not above........level playing field for everyone regardless of the color of their skin or their heritage.
I applaud those of every color, race and ethnic origin that choose to blaze their own path, I lend a hand to those that believe they can achieve greatness. I feel sorry for those that are convinced government is the answer.
When the leftist asks "what has the Republican Party done for blacks lately?" we understand that he's thinking about government handouts. Pathetic. American leftists are Americans in name only.
The real answer to the question, however, is that the classical liberals in the Republican Party have done plenty, not only for blacks, but for all Americans, especially since the Goldwater-Reagan revolution. More to the point, classical liberals of all races would have done even more for them had the Democratic Party not resisted positive change at every juncture, for example, keeping kids in the bombed out public schools that blight the poorer neighborhoods in our inner cities.
The Democratic Party's voting block is comprised of those who are dependent on the government in one way or another and the elite who rule them. The American dream will never be realized by the former as long as the latter who enjoy that dream persist, as long as the dependent continue to be led by demagoguery rather than their own best interests and those of the nation.
If not for LBJ's disastrous "War on Poverty", this nation would have retired the era of widespread black poverty decades ago. All the former did was create generational entrenched poverty, illegitimacy and dependency for many.
The problem's not new, however, and it's not merely white elitists who perpetrated this unnecessary tragedy. It's just that it could not have been made a reality until after the ratification of the 17th Amendment. Prior to the era of the "War on Poverty", blacks were well on their way out of widespread poverty all on their own.
There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs—partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. . . . There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public. —Booker T. Washington
