How can any black person be a Republican?
http://upload.democraticunderground.com/10023841160The big nosed primitive asks
How, How can this be?
The answers may surprise you.
Cyrano (8,153 posts)
How can any black person be a Republican?
I find black Republicans to be mind-boggling. What's wrong with them? Self-hatred? Brain damage? How can any black person stand to be among people who hate them, oppress them and would just as soon lynch them as talk to them?
The only possible rationale I can come up with is that it's all about money. Republicans need token blacks to help disguise their true goals. And any black person who plays along gets well compensated.
Nonetheless, I find the idea of being black and being a Republican incomprehensible. Can someone explain it?
Very small campfire but some interesting replies at the link.
They mostly ignore the easy answer. How? Register and vote.
But then they are among the best and brightest bulbs in their party so it is of small wonder how or why this subtle point might escape them.
One bold poster starts to slowly rip the bandaid off the scab but then ends up just jerking it off.
bluestate10 (9,734 posts)
25. The same can be asked of many Whites. Remember that the republican party was once
a defender of Blacks and the Democratic party as defender and enabler of White racists. Some Blacks such as Colin Powell still have a heritage connection to the republican party, although the modern republican party is very much against Blacks having a equal role in society. Some Black people haven't gotten the memo, but they are a tiny number that is shrinking as their children wise up.
Close but no White Owl lightning. Landslide Lyndon and Pubic Edmucation have pretty much destroyed the black family. What that hasn't finished Obambie is mopping up.
Here is a link just for DUmmies from one of their own:
PBS's Tavis Smiley made a comment Thursday that every African-American as well as liberal media member should sit up and take notice.
Appearing on Fox News's Hannity, Smiley said, "The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
SEAN HANNITY, HOST: My last question to you. You often do these seminars with the state of black America. I've watched them on C-Span and different channels, right?
TAVIS SMILEY: Right.
HANNITY: Are black Americans better off five years into the Obama presidency?
SMILEY: Let me answer your question very forthrightly. No, they are not. The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category. On that regard, the president ought to be held responsible.
But here's the other side. I respect the president. I will protect the president. And I will correct the president. He's right on this government shutdown. Republicans are thwarting the rule of law with the Constitution. If they let this debt go into default, they're trampling again on the Constitution.
Wow!
Now to be fair to Smiley, he has been hard on the president concerning how his policies are economically damaging the black community, but this is the first time I believe he's been this harsh on national television with such a large audience.
Sadly, he's right.
So why would this community re-elect someone doing so much damage to them economically?
Is it possible they're not aware of it because most liberal media members other than Smiley aren't reporting it?
Hmmm.
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/10/11/tavis-smiley-black-people-will-have-lost-ground-every-single-economic#ixzz2hdHjmjo0
It is entirely possible that Obambie policies will have the Blacks voting Republican again. Brother Barry's shuck and jive just ain't makin it in the 'Hood anymore.
