I would have more sympathy for the plight that is being an African-American Republican if it didn’t involve the type of job security usually coupled with having blood that cures cancer.
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If massive losses in communities of color motivates the GOP to stop being such shitheads that would be a good thing, not bad. But her focus on moving African-Americans into visible positions in the party rather than on cleaning up their crappy, alienating policies completely lost me.
Chickens in the time of Sanders…
They set the level for obsequiousness and keep raising it. Almost like the ‘Log Cabin Republicans’. Both groups abusing themselves with cut wood fibre products on a continual basis. Another side show on the sick and deranged circuit called conservatism. Run by white men, for white men. “Look, we have n*****s and fags and they know their place. We value them. (Just their votes mind you and their continued employment)”
This really is far more stupid than sad. ANybody who cannot see that the Republicans have not, and will not, done anything to help blacks since Lincoln amply deserves the abuse and isolation.
Let’s see: States Rights, Willie Horton, The Southern Strategy, “Voter Fraud,” the Confederate Flag. Yup the Republicans are a big tent party!!! The denial, self-delusion and self-loathing of these people borders on the pathological.
You know, I just don’t understand people who are Republican even if they disagree with everything the party does.
My mama taught me that actions speak louder than words, which is why the NewSpeak that insists that John McCain is a feminist b/c he picked Sarah Palin falls apart completely when put against Barack Obama’s standing up for women’s rights by voting against the Born Alive Act and picking a white man who just happened to be the one who wrote the Violence Against Women Act.
Who cares what party your grandparents belonged to? It’s not a sports team! It’s individuals pushing policies that affect our very freedoms. Policy positions and actions matter, not the team mascot.
I mean, if these people claimed they were Republican b/c the elephant is much cooler than a jackass, that would make more sense. But claiming that a party that has worked its damn hardest to enrich the rich and salt the Earth for any reformers who care about freedom and equality is somehow a “Big Tent”.....
Did they see any of the GOP coverage? Because there were very few people of color, and the crowds got whiter and whiter. And they were chanting “USA USA” as if they were at the Olympics and they were competing against foreigners.
We’ll have to decide whether we want to be the party that believes in smaller government, lower taxes and less regulation, or whether we’re going to be a litmus-test party that responds only to the demands of social conservatives. But most important (sic), we’ll have to confront our most disastrous modern legacy: our poor relationship with black Americans, the very people the party was formed to protect from the expansion of slavery into Kansas and Nebraska in 1854.
It’s the kowtowing to the social conservatives that causes your bad relationship with black Americans.
Social conservatives want to live in “Leave it to Beaver” where blacks and women knew their places. Blacks and women, being human, don’t enjoy being treated like props. They have real issues and need real government.
The GOP’s only chance to be relevant in the 21st Century is to let the 19%ers fend for themselves. Yes, the math isn’t there right now for them to win without them, but the math is changing enough that they aren’t going to be able to win with them either.
If your submission to the demands of the 19% turns away all of the middle, you have no hope of success, short of terrorizing everyone into voting for you and then gerrymandying every thing to hell.
OK, last one
Republicans have to stop allowing ourselves to be accused of voter suppression in every campaign
How about NOT SUPPRESSING VOTING instead? The accusations are there for a reason—namely the chicken-shit voter-suppression actions the GOP has embraced.
Because in stopping the accusations, we can continue to be criminal fucks and not be bothered with being called on it.
Oh yeah, that’s a strong long term, inclusive strategy.
Yeah, looking at that again, they have to stop allowing people to accuse them.
That’s totally fucked up.
You should be able to refute false accusations or defend yourself against libel/slander. Refusing to allow accusations sounds like the Mormons claiming they are allowed free speach without reprisal.
Reprisals happen!
Coming up: the sad state of the pacifist who enlisted in the Army. Then, the poor vegetarian who got a job at a slaughterhouse.
“It’s My Party, But I Don’t Feel Part of It”
...um, no it isn’t, Sophia A. Nelson. The Republican Party hasn’t been your party since at least 1968, and truth be told, probably stopped being your party not long after the end of Reconstruction.
If you had joined the Republican Party back in the day and were taken by surprise when the Southern Strategy first took root, that would be one thing. But if you joined after the “Reagan Revolution” was kicked off in Philadelphia Mississippi, there’s really no excuse for your stupidity.
They aren’t your friends, and they haven’t been your friends for a very long time…
But if you joined after the “Reagan Revolution” was kicked off in Philadelphia Mississippi, there’s really no excuse for your stupidity.
They aren’t your friends, and they haven’t been your friends for a very long time…
But…but…but…that’s exactly when she did join! “Compassionate conservatism” “1000 points of light” and all that jazz, not to mention JACK KEMP pushing for help in urban areas, are why she left her Democratic roots and became a Republican in the first place.
I realized in college that my personal values were closer to those of the GOP than the Democrats. I joined the Republican Party in 1988, attracted by George H.W. Bush’s message of a “kinder, gentler” America and Jack Kemp’s mantra of economic development and urban enterprise zones, which seemed a natural fit for the black community.
Talk about drinking the Kool-Aid! A kinder, gentler America? Yeah, FOR THE RICH.
The GOP is like a fortune cookie…only you should follow every proclamation with the phrase “for the rich” as opposed to “in bed”. Maybe even “for the rich white guys”.
It’s morning in America…for the rich white guys
It’s a kinder and gentler America…for the rich white guys
It’s a compassionate America…for the rich white guys
Bringing back dignity to the White House…for the rich white guys
I’m a uniter, not a divider…for the rich white guys
It’s hard being President…for the rich white guys
I’m the deciderer…for the rich white guys
I’m the commander guy…for the rich white guys
Amazing…W makes much more sense now.
If massive losses in communities of color motivates the GOP to stop being such shitheads that would be a good thing, not bad. But her focus on moving African-Americans into visible positions in the party rather than on cleaning up their crappy, alienating policies completely lost me.
There is a core Respublican policy - plutocracy. Everything else is a matter of veneers, of PR and tactics to obscure this and win elections.
Chickens in the time of Sanders…
Hey, wait a minute…
The really sad thing is that we’d be better off as a nation if we had two parties who actually gave a shit about minorities, and thus the votes of those groups were up for grabs. And I have no doubt that we’ll get there—the strategy of only appealing to privileged white people has already proven to be a poor one, and it won’t improve in either the near or long term, and there’s too much money and power at stake for the Republicans to keep it up for long. If they don’t adapt, they’ll die and something else will rise in its place we’ll be better off for it in either scenario.
To be more accurate, in Leave it to Beaver women knew their place, blacks didn’t exist at all.
Puts me in mind of that “Blacks without Soul” skit.
Pinky, it is more like “we have N****** and B****** and F***, but they don’t act like that!”
“The party has simply not understood the importance of having highly visible black Republican operatives, elected officials and political spokespersons working for it on an ongoing basis.”
Yeah, and I don’t have enough unicorns and leprechauns working for me on an ongoing basis. What should I do about that?
Previously:
http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-10-08/news/young-black-palin-proud/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/nyregion/09repubblog.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/black-republican-flips-ou_b_123810.html?page=4
I’m feelin’ like a Black Republican money I got comin in
You know, if we get a working health care system, there may be surgery for their affliction.
They have to crossdress as a WASP for two years first.
The article - and others like it - seem to miss a fundamental point. The way the Republican party treats people of colour isn’t an oversight, it’s their major selling point to a good chunk of their base.
This story reminds me of an experience that I had in college (admittedly it was a conservative liberal arts college) where a fellow African American student staunchly advocated all the Republican talking points against affirmative action. It was so sad. But, some seem to think that joining the Republican Party is the surest and fastest way to move ahead in politics.
In the late 1980s the GOP may have been what Nelson describes, but today it is not consistent with her stated values. Why would African-Americans, or anyone else for that matter, want to be servants of social conservatives whose platform is pro-belligerence and pro-provinicialism abroad, and pro-rooting out individual differences and pro-sticking it to women, gays and just about everyone else, too, at home?
As for lower taxes, that’s nice and all, but I’m afraid taxes have to go up anyway to pay for your pointless war. So we might as well have people who are not caricatures of evil and stupidity in the White House, to push for raising them and then take care of cleaning up the messes Bush and the Republicans have already made.
Well, Black Republicans can always find employment as pundits or TV bloviators. I seem to see them all over the TV whenever a little “color” is required.