Posted on 06/08/2015 5:58:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I talk to blacks all the time and have even been invited to inner city Detroit churches. We’ve got common ground on abortion, guns, gay marriage and several other things. Black businessmen don’t want to be overregulated or overtaxed than anyone else.
The biggest hurdle to blacks voting republican in local races is the lack of republicans running in urban areas.
If they did, then they would vote against it, not for it.
When someone votes for the party doing this to us, you can’t take them seriously when they say that they don’t approve of it.
I’d like to see the lefties call THEM bigots.
Interesting anecdote, especially with your home page statement of your being a social liberal, what kind of " a very conservative rural church" is it?
I live and work in the DC area and for decades I have witnessed the appalling denial in blacks.
Going way back to 1992, almost all blacks I knew believed we were in the worst economy in the last 50 years as Clinton claimed thousands of times. Several believed the unemployment was 25% (they heard that on the radio and eagerly believed it). So when I presented them US govt stats that the unemployment was not 25%, they refused to believe it.
Many of them live in Prince Georges county, MD which is a cesspool of crime and incompetence and corruption and horrible schools. One of the folks I work with lives in that county and his two sons were 'educated' in that school system, which is a complete disaster area. However, he was happy with his situation as he told me his sons' teachers are really good and his school was good, too - unlike the others. His older son made good grades and my fellow worker was shocked, just shocked when his son had no ability to do college level work. He spent his entire freshman year in remedial courses and then dropped out of college. His younger son - same story. Do you think this real life example would have an impact? Perhaps the schools really aren't good. Perhaps we need change. Oh no, he still votes for the same people and the same party election after election. He sees nothing wrong...nothing needs to be fixed.
I have seen scores of blacks burned by their own system, burned by their own people, burned by their own 'ideals' and yet, it is more important to stick together with their own kind and blame whitey. You see, it's whitey's fault. I have all kinds of anecdotes. Blacks are very conspiratorial about most everything. Fairfax County has one of the best school systems in the country and when I ask my black coworkers and acquaintances, if they have considered moving from PG county to Fairfax, they answer is almost always, "We've discussed it, but we feel more comfortable where we are." But this is the future of your children. "Yes, we know, but they'll do fine in the schools here." These are blacks who can easily afford to move across the river to Virginia, but for the sake of being with their kind, they have sacrificed their children.
The DC school system is so bad, I could spend hours writing about it, but the bottom line is 50% do not graduate and 50% of those who do graduate are functionally illiterate. When one of the mayors hired an Asian as head of the DC school system, she was run out after several years. She was turning the tables upside down, but you can't have that. The fact that their school system is a shambles did not matter to them. All they wanted was a black superintendent.
Blacks give lip service opposing same sex marriage, but that is all it is. The next election, they are voting for the same ones who have ruined their families and ruined their community. They don't care. If they cared, their behavior would be different.
It is a waste of time to engage blacks. You don't even want me to write as to what they think of Ben Carson.
Whatever. Not all of us have allowed Obama to pull our puppet strings.
Given the illegitimacy rate of black children it looks like they don’t support any type of marriage
Correct - only 98% have allowed him to pull the strings.
What’s the Muslim opinion of Gay Marriage?
You’re one of those types.
Hopefully the newly elected conservative Republican chairman of the North Carolina GOP can help change that (and yes, he’s black).
Nixon got 33% of the black vote in 1960 and Goldwater got almost none in 1964 and it hasn't changed in half a century since. So, please, if you can, educate me on how engaging blacks is helpful and has changed their voting patterns and point of view. I know you can't do that and won't respond just like the other one.
Failure to try is just plain failure.
They’re just a bunch of racists /sarc
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