Posted on 08/12/2014 12:21:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
In the midst of rioting in St. Louis over the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager, the New York Times decided to stoke the embers of racial animus even further with an incendiary op-ed titled, "Can the G.O.P. Ever Attract Black Voters?"
In fact, the Republican party has already shown its ability to do just that. Exit polls from 2012 reveal an unprecedented development: not only did Mitt Romney's support from black men under the age of 30 jump 13 points from 2008, he also garnered a much larger share of votes from this group than from their elders.
Even more intriguing is the fact that this under-30 voting bloc was comprised largely of the youngest millennials, those 24 and under. This means that roughly one in five new black male voters chose to cast their very first presidential ballot for a Republican, all the while passing up the opportunity to ever vote for Obama.
All this is lost on the author, Jelani Cobb, who portrays the Republican party as racist for "fil[ing] a baseless lawsuit against the first African-American president," "all[ying] with birthers," and backing voter ID laws.
Cobb, a history professor and director of the Africana Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut, takes aim at Reince Priebus, Rand Paul, Paul Ryan, and the party's outreach to minorities:
Yet black voters recognize a point that is consistently lost on the G.O.P.: It is one thing to tell the children in one’s own community that racism is no excuse for failure, and quite another for a party invested in the electoral yields of racism to make the same claim.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
Someone explain to me how the GOP of McConnell/Boehner/Priebus attracts anything approximating a conservative?
Romney is a democrat appeaser, tool, collaborator.. poseur..
And should be exposed as a stealth traitor.. “trojan horse”..
I believe it when I see it - the day after the election....
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Romney may attract a few young black voters, but he lost MILLIONS of conservative voters. He is a liberal snake.
“You can only lie to people for so many decades and then people begin to catch on to what the Dems are up to.”
You’re giving them the benefit of the doubt; most who vote Dem are doing so to line their own pockets. After 50 years of this nonsense, I don;t believe they don’t see what’s up. The American Dream (where hard work will get you a better life) means little to a mass of people that read and speak at a second-grade level; too many of them will never fit in the modern economy, so they keep the freebies coming...
Yes the “Young Black Conservative Club” is holding a meeting in a phone booth and sub-letting some of it to the “Young Jewish Conservative Club.”
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