Funny how 20 million Mexicans can swim across a river, cross a blistering desert and find a job and somehow support themselves despite not even being able to speak English, yet a similar number of black (and white) welfare sloths cannot.
Posted on 08/18/2011 10:03:47 PM PDT by Libloather
It’s because of the “lost Cause” feeling when it comes to educating and fighting for the black vote for republicans. Why spend millions trying to get 5% of their vote in a single cycle?
Because that’s what it will take many times over.
I’m with you in that we need is to fight this fight as if it will take no less then 10 cycles to make a difference, and 20cycles to win. Maybe more.
In some cases, that 5% could be the difference between winning or losing an election. I mean I’ve addressed this subject a number of times and the many reasons for our difficulties with making substantive breakthroughs. Some Conservatives think it’s not worth the bother because they mistakenly believe getting more of the Black vote means moving to the left. That’s not what I’m suggesting (besides, that is also a losing exercise because we’re not going to be able to outflank Dems on the left, and we just end up alienating center & right voters in the process).
Democrats spent decades trying to figure out how to get Blacks to support them (ironically, when they got the first Black Democrat elected to Congress in 1934, he had to get elected with nearly an all-White electorate and a smallish Black minority percentage), and in the end, it took almost 100 years from the end of the Civil War for them to be planted securely on their plantation. Republicans, conversely, had just as difficult a time to make breakthroughs in the South (especially Deep South) with White voters. If someone had said in the 1930s that states like MS & SC (both of whom broke nearly 100% for FDR in national elections) would be GOP majority in the future, they’d have thought you were crazy (ditto Blacks in the South voting Democrat in the future).
Nobody seriously expects Blacks to vote majority Republican anytime soon, but even cranking it up to where it was in 1960 (above 25% to 1/3rd) would mean that quite a number of Democrat officeholders from federal on down would be out of a job and replaced by a number of Black Republicans. Indeed, in some of the Southern Black districts currently, that would be enough to run such charlatans as Jim Clyburn (the Democrat Whip), Bennie Thompson and Sanford Bishop out of office.
Once you start jumping from 2 to 5 to 10 and so-on of federal Blacks (and even greater at legislative levels), Democrats will no longer be able to play the race card in an effective way to keep the tide from rolling towards us. And in the end, it will be better for Blacks to be represented by more sane political figures who will be able to either assist (or simply get out of the way as the case may be) in lifting them up out of that Socialist bondage.
You have a 60” Sony. Whee!
I have a 70”. But Dish network does not force me to watch an 80” picture! They present a size that fits on my screen. I don’t have to scroll to watch TV.
Wise up, idiot!
Funny how 20 million Mexicans can swim across a river, cross a blistering desert and find a job and somehow support themselves despite not even being able to speak English, yet a similar number of black (and white) welfare sloths cannot.
“They want all of us to work together, to create jobs and put people back to work.”
To go “back to work” would indicate that someone has worked at some point; do these people want to go back to work, or do they want the rest of us to go back to work to restore the tax revenues/program funding that was cut for their idle behinds?
Not likely to ever change as long as there are the likes of Jackson, Sharpton, Van Jones, Wright, Farrakhan, Holder and, of course, Obama.
The socialism of America requires true desperation of the people to willingly accept communism if it means it will feed, house and utilize them. So far Obama has tried and has worked very well to make most of the unemployed feel like accepting his version of socialism will give them a job.
This his his strategy, make the people to WANT socialism to survive. America won’t accept being a communist country but if it means feeding the kids many people will not argue or fight against it.
Obamas next step will be more tempting aid offers, like the foodstamps, next will be fuel vouchers I suspect and then utility vouchers.
I’ve been saying that for years: we don’t need to win a majority of the black vote, just 25%. That would be sufficient not only for us to be able to elect black Republicans in some black-majority Southern districts, but to make it just about impossible for any white Democrats to be elected north of FL’s Gold Coast, south of Arlington, VA and west of California, or for any Democrat to be elected statewide (even to the Senate or governorship) in more than 15-20 states nationwide (and none in the South).
"We don’t know what the strategy is."
Not to worry Maxine. Neither does Barry.
Waters also questioned why President Obama did not visit any black communities on his Midwest bus tour earlier this week.Uh.... well Maxine. Maybe because he was afraid of being attacked by a Flash Mob?
They are frustrated because the man hasn't given them more of what they want.
Most of Obummer’s core constituency have made a handsome living off of being generationally unemployed. . . no worries THERE!!
I disagree. Having lived in the Black community and actually having infiltrated that community, I can honestly say that any Black Conservative espousing “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” will be relegated to an “Uncle Tom.”
The latter.
The Great Society has been a huge success.
It destroyed the black family structure in two generations.
Now 75% of births are illegitimate.
Then govt wonders why zillions of $$ spent on schools can’t fix the problem....
Can’t expect to reach or convert everyone, but to reach enough of to begin to make a difference for the long run.
“African-Americans cannot be taken as seriously tuned in and rationally thinking...”
Especially when the government has policies indicating they are genetically inferior to whites and Asians. The Klan couldn’t paint a more demeaning picture of they tried...
Gotta start somewhere.
If we got just 20% of the Black vote it would pretty much break the democrats.
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