[where's_the_Outrage?]

It's amazing how Tucker can research all kinds of events, but can't see the forest through the trees.

It really understandable why Republicans are hated, and it's not because of Afirmative Action or a state flag. It's because the DemocRAT lies are taken as fact.

And if diversity is so important, doesn't that mean including republicans?

[Paul Atreides]

One idiot Cynthia defending another idiot Cynthia.

[spetznaz]

One of the main bastions of high level deception is this: Repeat a lie enough times, and with enough visceral emotions linked to it, and after a little while the lie will become universally accepted as absolute truth (and those who try to deny the 'new truth' will be branded as 'weirdly different').

That is why in certain Black communities the mere utterence of the word Republican is tantamount to saying the N word!

And as a black Republican i can tell you that fact is so prevalent in a myriad of areas around the country, and so entrenched, that it has even become a rallying cry during voting times .....for example 'we all have to vote otherwise a REPUBLICAN may win!

[liberalism=failure]

The democrats are the reason the R word is thrown about so wrecklessly. Their party thrives by encouraging hatred and scapegoating of whites for all black people's problems.

[Outraged]

It really understandable why Republicans are hated, and it's not because of Afirmative Action or a state flag. It's because the DemocRAT lies are taken as fact.

Bulls-eye. And it really pisses me off. The GOP cowers as the democRATS beat us over the head with the lies and we just lay down the ultimate weapon...the truth.

[ChiMark]

The kind of people who believe in the likes of Mckinny S.J. Lee and Jesse are not worhty of voting. Please, she is only politically significant with a bunch of syncophants of the Arfro American left. It's useless to argue with this absurd person. Move on.

[mhking]

Black conservative ping

If you want on (or off) of my black conservative ping list, please let me know via FREEPmail. (And no, you don't have to be black to be on the list!)

[goodnesswins]

Keeping blacks on the "PLANTATION" is what Democrats are all about - and using rhetoric and racism against Republicans is their methodology.

[okie01]

Well, we were all wondering just exactly how Cynthia T. would play the Cynthia McK. vs Majette race.

Now, we know. She takes a cheap shot at Cynthia McK., while expressing admiration for her political acumen.

Rather than take a position against McKinney, or in favor of Majette, Tucker chose instead a Third Way:
bashing Republicans.

Disappointing. But not surprising...

[Bogey78O]

'To keep that support, the Republicans have believed it necessary to play the race card, whipping up fears of black crime (Willie Horton), portraying the welfare system as overwhelmingly benefiting blacks (the majority of recipients are actually white), rejecting affirmative action, downplaying the need for diversity and generally ignoring the aspirations of African-Americans.'

Lies of course but if said from a factual perspective it'll fool the stupid people. Why Tucker treats black people as stupid is anyone's guess.

[au eagle]

As a resident of the state of Alabama and a graduate of Auburn University, please accept my apologies for Cynthia Tucker.

[eggman]

To keep that support, the Republicans have believed it necessary to play the race card, whipping up fears of black crime (Willie Horton), portraying the welfare system as overwhelmingly benefiting blacks (the majority of recipients are actually white), rejecting affirmative action, downplaying the need for diversity and generally ignoring the aspirations of African-Americans.

The DemoRat lies that keep the DemoRat blacks in line. Convicted murderers, black or white, need to stay in prison and not be out on furlough to rape an terrorize. Welfare, regardless of wheter the recipient is black or white, breeds dependence on the governent. Affrmative action is just legalized discrimination. What the hell is "the need for diversity"? If African-Americans aspire to positions of power and respect they should become Republicans.

[dalebert]

Lies are lies and someone should point that out to the voters in her district.

[stylin19a]

"Report: Blacks Outnumber Whites On Welfare
Tuesday, July 28, 1998

ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK - Whites are leaving the welfare system faster than blacks or Hispanics, resulting in the highest minority percentage on record among welfare recipients, according to today's New York Times.

Now, blacks outnumber whites on welfare. The Times also said the Hispanic share of the rolls is growing the fastest, and black and Hispanic recipients combined outnumber whites by about 2-to-1.

In New York City, which has a caseload second only to the state of California, the number of whites on welfare has dropped 57 percent since March 1995, compared with a 30 percent decline for blacks. The Hispanic decline was just 7 percent.

The growing minority domination of the rolls is a new, little-noticed and as yet largely unexplained phenomenon, the newspaper said. Most officials reacted with surprise when presented with the figures, which were compiled in a New York Times analysis of recent state data prepared by the Census Bureau.

One reason why whites may be leaving faster is because their economic situations could be less grave than blacks or Hispanics. Other explanations include possible job and housing discrimination, more children born to minority recipients and less education in minority communities."

So, when did this change ?

[1rudeboy]

So a Democrat campaigns against another Democrat by calling her a "Republican," and it's the Republicans' fault. I get it . . . .

[timestax]

bump

[mhking]

No doubt searching her thesaurus to find the most despicable epithet to hurl at Majette, McKinney settled on this: Majette, McKinney says, is a Republican.

In other words, McKinney hopes that Republicans scare black voters more than she does, and she may be right.

Progressive Republicans counter suggestions of lingering racism in the GOP by pointing to the diversity of the Bush administration, with prominent black appointees such as Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Assistant Attorney General Larry Thompson. President Bush does deserve credit for raising the bar: He has given blacks more power than any predecessor, Democrat or Republican.

But a diverse Bush Cabinet hardly changes the complexion -- or the politics -- of the GOP. Bush's efforts to make his party colorblind have not had much success beyond the Beltway around Washington.

So when McKinney tries to smear Majette by calling her a Republican, she knows what she's doing. In McKinney's district, which includes many well-educated black professionals, a hostile, race-baiting GOP may still be more frightening than a loose-cannon congresswoman.

Cynthia Tucker is one of the most wishy-washy columnists out there. Sometimes, genuine pearls of wisdom come from her pen, and I have hope for some common-sense reconciliation. Then garbage like this spews forth, which shows not only her partisanship, but her regular notion of only addressing information that supports her arguements.

Even though Powell, Rice and Thompson reflect the increased status of blacks within the GOP as well as the administration, Tucker chooses to ignore that in order to get her jab at "the complexion -- or the politics -- of the GOP."

She does this in order to support her notion that Denise Majette doesn't have a snowball's chance in h@ll of winning against the McKinney machine. Of course she ignores the desperate underhanded tactics employed by McKinney, and the fact that the remainder of the Georgia Democratic party has conveniently turned it's collective head the other way with a wink and a nod at Cynthia McKinney (and by proxy, her loose-cannon father).

Politics as usual - and of course that is a situation that must remove the GOP from the equation. Memo to the Georgia GOP: Tucker is right about one thing -- if the Georgia state flag is the only thing the state GOP will lay it's hat upon as an issue, the GOP doesn't have a snowball's chance of doing anything statewide. The state party is embroiled in their own politics, divided between mainstream Republicans and those who are supporting Ralph Reed, with his efforts to make the party more "progressive."

While the infighting is going on and the "Confederate First" crowd is waving the old flag in a windmill-tilting effort that is going nowhere, the Dems are running roughshod over the GOP. Keep in mind that there is NO Republican candidate to run against Cynthia McKinney (or Denise Majette for that matter) in the 4th District in November. If that isn't a sign of stagnation, I don't know what is.

[TN Republican]

I have not heard any Republican rhetoric that blames welfare on black people (except insofar as they vote as a monolith for the Socialist Democratic party). White welfare is just as bad, and actually worse for the reason Cynthia Tucker mentioned - that group makes up the majority of recipients.

The spread of the anti-achievement mentality, along with the indulgences of our pandering politicians, enables far too many people to live off the government, who get paid for making more mouths for our taxes to feed and more minds for our government to indoctrinate.

[stands2reason]

Bush's efforts to make his party colorblind

Wait a sec. We are the colorblind party.