I recently got into an online discussion where l used Michael Steele's misguided attempts to "get home with the downies" as another example of Republicans getting it wrong when it came to African Americans and their votes. What l got was an attempt by someone to "educate me" on US history.
The person acually tried to use this as the main point to his arguement on why most African Americans are wrong in their view of republicans. Below is my reply:
Can l ask one favour of you and others on the right who post about African Americans and who they vote for in the future? Please, please, PLEASE stop with the black republican thing! I know it makes you feel better that they are there, l know you like to point to them to try and say that not all republicans are racists, and l know that you like to think that all of the African Americans who vote for the Democrats do so for some uninformed uneducated groupmind meld where they have been betrayed by white Democrats who are secretly laughing at them.
Here's a bit of brutal truth:
Personally I don't give a tinkers cuss about black republicans. They have less standing in the republican party that log cabin republicans. They are as powerful as a 20 watt lightbulb and as popular amongst black people in general as either Mark Furman or Sickle Cell.
I won't thank you for the attempted history lesson because you assumed that l just got up one day aged 38 and began following US politics without any research or study of my own. I'm also fed up with the "We were the party of black people for 200 years, so why don't they love us now?" crap. Newsflash: JESUS WAS JEWISH. Does this mean that Christians should ignore everything he taugh and revert to Judaism? Those expecting to be raptured may want to reread the Book of Revelations at this point!! I will ask you the same questions l asked some other right wingers who thought that quoting what the republicans did up until 1964 should erase every action since then:
When Lyndon Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act he said of the Democrats "I've just lost the South for a generation". What happened to all the segregationists and supporters of Jim Crow and Dixecrats? Where did they go and which party did they join?
What was the NIxonian "Southern Strategy" all about?
How was the "Southern Strategy" implemented and what effects did it have on the election?
When Reagan was running for President in 1980 he used to say that he was all for "States Rights". It is said that this claim is a euphenism for something else. What exactly is "States Rights" all about and why would Reagan use the term while campaigning in the South?
Why did he choose the town of Philadelphia in Mississippi to forcefully make that statement?
How was the George H W Bush use of the Willie Horton ad effective in the 1988 campaign?
What do you think the response of the black community in general was when they saw the ad and what it was portraying?
And a last question, HOW MANY MEMBERS OF THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE ARE AFRICAN AMERICAN REPUBLICANS?
The last two people of whom l asked these questions never replied to them. As it seems that people on the right are supposed to be so educated on this subject you would think it would be very easy to answer. If all of what you were trying to say was true about republicans then no matter what Democrats say at the moment, figures for black represention at the national level for republicans would be much, much higher. The fact it is not says something.
Either African Americans are deluded and cannot think rationally for themselves therefore they just listen to the Democrats who are acting like the slave masters of the old south and are feeding them honeyed words and free money in the form of welfare because they are too lazy to get off the pipe and get to work , or they are intellegent people with a memory of all that has gone on since 1964 and what republicans have said and done on TV, on radio, and in the print media, as well as the enactment of policies which may be worded differently but are still there to disenfranchise them and don't buy what the black republicans in the party are shoveling. I have an idea which one it is, which one do YOU think it is?
Sorry in advance if the tags don't work, still crap at a lot of this computer stuff!!!