[ClearCase_guy]

Republicans should play a long game and just tell the truth about black culture and about the welfare state. It's not pretty, and it won't be popular. But tell that story as straight as you can, and in 10 or 20 years, you will get somewhere. We should have started this 10 or 20 years ago, but tomorrow is not too late to start.

Pandering and apologizing are the wrong way to go.

[tomkat]

Regardless any other considerations,

  Pandering and apologizing are the wrong way to go

150 years ago the lifeblood of over a half million white men became part of our soil in payment for the greatest mistake in our nation's history.
Slaves eventually gained citizenship, and TRILLIONS in 'interest' have subsequently been extorted from the average family, 99.9% of whom NEVER had ANY connection to slavery.
Any debt that was owing is long since paid in full.

I wish to God we'd have opted for flax>linen, or picked our own damned cotton.

[driftless2]

"just tell the truth"

Good luck with that. Telling black Americans that they are responsible for their own problems would be like telling a person who is hitting himself in the head with a hammer to stop it only to be told by the person holding the hammer someone else is hitting them in the head. Namely nasty, white racists.

Six or seven thousand black males are gunned down every year by other black males but black Americans choose to focus on a few cases where black males are killed by police (almost all justified shootings) to show they are still victims of terrible racism.

In short, telling the truth does no good. They are resistant to facts and reality.