NAACP (and the Democrat Party) - A Betrayal of Black America

[Atreus21]

Oh I get it, teen unemployement rises amongst the blacks because of higher minimum wages, not the current economic situation.

Giggle.

Minimum wage arguments, gotta love 'em.

It exists to prevent exploitation of the poor.

Oh wait I forget, we live in a mythical economic system where every employee can leave a job whenever he chooses to to find a better one.

Can I get a show of hands of people who never took basic economics?

 

[umbrella39]

<PooJabber ignore> That's enough from this WOT posting Alt already.

 

[BoberFett]

In other words, they believe the pay is too low for the work?

Compared to a government check, yeah, it's probably not worth it to work.

 

[classy]

Meh, if there is a black person on the ticket then ~90% of black people will vote for him. Put him on the Republican ticket and ~90% will vote for him. I dont see that changing in the next election. Obama's support is rock solid with black voters. If anything the Democrats have leeway to not go out of their way and get the black vote since its already in the bag. Hispanics will be pandered to heavily by both parties to try and gain that vote.

This is definately not true. There have beee many black republican candidates who have gotten nothing from african american voters. Its not all about color.

I never understood why a whole block of voters would vote "en masse" for a single party ... aka African Americans voting Democrat. It only seems logical to vote on the issues vice just because you of a particular race.

You reap what you sow?

This is very simple to answer. The truth is the republican party foudation has been built, controlled, and run by men who have 20, 30, and 40 histories of being racist. Many openly. I don't care how sound your stand on an issue is, people won't vote for a person or support a group if they believe they are disliked by those folks. And the republican party has done nothing to change that. I am sure the same typical welfare and other stupid arguments will used as counter points, but the fact remains, the republicans have a very anti-minority character and not much has been done to change that.

 

[PJABBER]

This is very simple to answer. The truth is the republican party foudation has been built, controlled, and run by men who have 20, 30, and 40 histories of being racist. Many openly. I don't care how sound your stand on an issue is, people won't vote for a person or support a group if they believe they are disliked by those folks. And the republican party has done nothing to change that. I am sure the same typical welfare and other stupid arguments will used as counter points, but the fact remains, the republicans have a very anti-minority character and not much has been done to change that.

There are many ways of seeing bigotry.

Yours is the official echo chamber commentary that one group is racist and another is not. You claim that racism is a "group" or "official" stand of the Republicans, that is characteristic of those who identify themselves as Republican. In doing so you completely ignore the history of the political parties and the stands they took and the clear stands they take today.

I found this particular web site did a good job in capturing the historical party platforms of both Republican and Democrats -

A 124 Year History of Major Civil Rights Efforts Based on a Side-by-Side Comparison of the Early Platforms of the Two Major Political Parties

A party platform is a document produced by a political party every four years (prior to each presidential election) that sets forth that party’s beliefs and values as well as its policy positions on important issues of the day. While a platform addresses dozens of issues and sets forth that party’s vision for America, this booklet has compiled the position of the two major parties only on civil rights and racial justice issues – a subject at the forefront of American policy debates for decades.

The Democrats and Republicans platform declarations on this subject that appear in this article commence with the year 1840 and continue until the 1964 platform immediately preceding the creation and passage of the three major landmark civil rights measures in 1964 and 1965: the 24th amendment abolishing the poll tax, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. These civil rights declarations reveal how, or whether, the parties embraced the belief set forth in the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights."

The following excerpts have been taken directly from the platforms and have not been altered.

LINK to side-by-side comparison of Party Platforms

Note that the Republican Party and not the Democrat Party were the early leaders in fighting slavery and racism, in empowering minorities, including women, a much more oppressed "class" over a longer time frame.

The distinguishing difference between the two parties is the emphasis on class versus individual rights. Broadly, the Republicans advocate for individual freedom and individual rights and individual opportunity, the Democrats are focused on class distinctions.

But you can't see the forest for the trees, you live in an echo chamber that allows no opinion contrary to the false assumptions you base your opinions on.

The black minority populations in this country have been fed a line, hook and sinker that they must be coddled from diaper to grave. This has dis-empowered them. Everybody knows this, but it is to the benefit of too many to ignore the cause and the effect.

In so many ways, your opinions are a throwback to the worst of the racism that racked this country. You are a reverse racist but that is still being racist.

NOTHING makes the Black population different than any other minority today. Within a few years of throwing off the shackles of liberal low expectations, I believe they can LEAD the country in entrepreneurial endeavor.

They only have to look to other minorities and recent immigrant populations and what they have done - the East Asians, the South Asians, the Chinese, the Hispanics, the Irish, the Italians, the Polish, the hundreds of groups that struggled through extraordinary barriers of race, sex and national origin to be successful without the Democrat devised crutch that the black population chooses to lean so heavily on.

I suggest you spend time in reviewing the ladies and gentlemen on this site - Black Entrepreneur Profile. THESE should be the heroes of the community, THESE should be the role models that are presented in our schools, THESE are the men and women that show just how much can be done when INDIVIDUAL effort is applied and the bigotry of smothering and condescending political pandering is rejected.

 

[CitizenKain]

Note that the Republican Party and not the Democrat Party were the early leaders in fighting slavery and racism, in empowering minorities, including women, a much more oppressed "class" over a longer time frame.

Anyone else I'd expect they'd be smart enough to understand the platform the political parties represent has changed since the civil war.

 

[werepossum]

Meh, if there is a black person on the ticket then ~90% of black people will vote for him. Put him on the Republican ticket and ~90% will vote for him. I dont see that changing in the next election. Obama's support is rock solid with black voters. If anything the Democrats have leeway to not go out of their way and get the black vote since its already in the bag. Hispanics will be pandered to heavily by both parties to try and gain that vote.

I was a Keyester, and I guarantee he had very little support among blacks. Blacks have been voting Democrat since Goldwater and Kennedy, and I strongly suspect that in a race with a black Republican and a white Democrat you would find no more than 20% to 30% of blacks voting Republican.

 

[Throckmorton]

So are Republicans done apologizing for the Southern Strategy yet?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

 

[KlokWyze]

So are Republicans done apologizing for the Southern Strategy yet?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

lol.

This strategy fits what my idea of the Republican party is perfectly. It's not to run a platform that's best for Americans, but to have a platform simply designed to win, on that of that, by exploiting bigotry and ignorance.

I honestly think both parties are reprehensible, it's just that the Republican party doesn't even try to hide it's blatant hypocritical immorality geared to appeal to racist white morons. "Family values." D:

Re-reading that, equally damaging statements can easily be made about the Dems.... we are fucked. :biggrin: