Posted on 10/30/2014 4:54:00 AM PDT by dennisw
In the final days before the election, Democrats in the closest Senate races across the South are turning to racially charged messages — invoking Trayvon Martin’s death, the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., and Jim Crow-era segregation — to jolt African-Americans into voting and stop a Republican takeover in Washington.
The images and words they are using are striking for how overtly they play on fears of intimidation and repression. And their source is surprising. The effort is being led by national Democrats and their state party organizations — not, in most instances, by the shadowy and often untraceable political action committees that typically employ such provocative messages.
In North Carolina, the “super PAC” started by Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, ran an ad on black radio that accused the Republican candidate, Thom Tillis, of leading an effort to pass the kind of gun law that “caused the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.” Continue reading the main story Related Coverage
In Georgia, Democrats are circulating a flier warning that voting is the only way “to prevent another Ferguson.” It shows two black children holding cardboard signs that say “Don’t shoot.”
“They have been playing on this nerve in the black community that if you even so much as look at a Republican, churches will start to burn, your civil rights will be taken away and young black men like Trayvon Martin will die,” said Michael Steele, a former chairman of the Republican Party. “The reality of it is, the Democrats realize that their most loyal constituency is not as loyal as they once were.”
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the republicans should counter with two simple ads” Jim Crow was a DEMOCRAT” and “Bull Connor was a DEMOCRAT”
Desperation!
Some history for Black people by Black people.
Shows that the demonRAT party was *ALWAYS* the party of plantation politics and racial disparity.
Trayvon Martin — lie
Michael Brown — lie
Jim Crow — ended half a century ago
Democrats: “Progressives?” Or simply desperate liars mired in the past?
Any fool knows there are tensions between elements of the races just as there are joint ventures and goodwill between others. Race relations in our country have been rocky and both parties have contributed to the duration of the ill will.
Any reasonable person, black or white, should recognize that the Democrat Party exploits blacks while simultaneously destroying the self esteem necessary for success in the most vulnerable by subsidizing antisocial behavior.
My two cents.
The New York Times publishes a story about Democrats ads that actually tell the world just how dumb they really think black Americans are.
“...when George W. Bush vetoed that bill, I felt like he had been dragged behind that pickup all over again...”
What I heard was that the consultants hired to help the DemocRATS produce these ads, and get the maximum benefit out of them, are Thad Cochran and Haley Barbour of Mississippi. It worked so well for them, they’re sharing their expertise on how to use race-baiting to get Blacks to the polls and win elections.
So patronizing and paternalistic. If I were black , I would be incensed. Like the whitey “Massah” pol telling his po slaves how it is, to keep them on the Dem plantation. Disgusting racists.
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