Againsheila
Gold Member
People tend to identify with other groups of people. No man is an island. There are varying degrees and circles within circles of allegiances. In the arab world, for example, family clan and sect always trump nationality. In America, people self identify with family, with race, with religion, with political party, with socioeconomic status, with regional location. It is why all of New England rejoiced when the Red Sox won the world series in '04 even though very few of us live in Boston proper.
Black Americans identify with other black Americans. Irish Americans identify with other Irish Americans. Labor union members identify with other labor union members.
The existence of a southern strategy by the GOP is well known, and Steele even admitted as much himself at DePaul last month. I personally could NEVER work for an organization that utilized a strategy specifically designed to minimize the importance of a group of people that I self identified with. Michael Steele clearly has no such objections to doing precisely that.
It was not a coincidence that Reagan chose Philadelphia Mississippi to be his VERY FIRST campaign stop after winning the GOP nomination, and for the audience in Philadelphia that day, "state's rights" had one meaning and one meaning only, and especially to Edgar Ray Killen who was, no doubt, applauding wildly from the audience.
The GOP,IMHO, will always turn a blind eye to racism in the south as long as the white folks there continue to elect republicans...but will, at some point rue that strategy when the white folks demographic shrinks in relation to other ethnic groups. Arizona has put them in a bind with Hispanic voters and, as I also said earlier, for every black voter that Steele is able to bring into their fold, they will lose 10o because of the "racism at lunch counters is the lunch counter owner's business" position of Rand Paul.
My family is made up of all races. My family has several different religion. My family is across the political spectrum including the GOP, the Dems and the socialist workers party. My family are Americans FIRST! Personally, I voted for the Constitutional Party in the last election. I do not believe that the GOP is racist, though, some of them are. I do not believe the Dems are racist, though some of them are. The only thing I am absolutely positive of, after reading your posts is that YOU are a racist, and that you are not concerned with America as a country at all, but are in favor of it's downfall. Sadly, it's already clear to me that people like you are winning and America is falling.
for you to claim to be absolutely certain of anything about me based upon a handful of postings on an internet message board proves to me that you are a moron. I love my country...served my country in uniform for a quarter of a century, and want nothing more than a more perfect union. You, on the other hand, are a moronic bitch who would best serve HER country by getting her tubes tied so that no more of her moronic spawn would populate our country.
Don't worry, I had my tubes tied years ago. I have two special needs children on both ends of the autism spectrum. I appreciate your concern about my kids....and your insults which are never ending and baseless. Any moron can tell you are a racist based on your posts here, so I guess I am in good company.