THIS IS AWESOME...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy5Yev51kF0

...but, we lost Kanye.

Ultimately though, no, it’s not what we need to hear. It’s barely an advance for black people to correctly identify Democrats with the historical “wrongs” that have been done to blacks in America; the better route is to understand that it does us no good to dwell upon the past in this way. What’s done is done, and the question now is what are we going to do with the amazing opportunities that we’ve been blessed with here in America, right here, right now.

Your point is sound, but IMHO it would help some if people understood the whole history of the Republican Party. I was pleased by the treatment of the subject in this 5/9/18 Dinesh D’Souza video.
He summarized the history of the Republican Party by quoting Abraham Lincoln as saying that the definition of slavery is, “You work, I eat.” And while he admitted party platforms changed over time, he asserted that opposition to the “You work, I eat” principle has been a constant theme of the Republican Party.
The other interesting point he made was that blacks switched heavily to the Democrat Party during the New Deal - even though the FDR cut a deal with southern Democrats to cut the blacks out of most of the New Deal goodies.
D'Souza made the point in different ways in previous documentaries, but he said that of 200 Southern Democrat governors and senators, 199 lived and died as Democrats. The lone exception being, of course, Strom Thurman. It wasn’t that Southern Democrats took over the Republican party, but that Southern whites accepted the Republican Party.

Yes, I saw the movie and am familiar with those points. It’s true and worth saying. But the narrative that the modern day left runs with is basically that the parties “switched sides” during the Civil Rights Era, Nixon’s Southern Strategy and all of that. D’Souza’s debunked that of course, but if you’re judging based on demographics, as they are wont to do, it’s hard to argue with the reality that as of now, the GOP is whiter than America in general, and the donkeys are less white.

But my point is really more coming from within the black community, where race and history play such a big role in our thought processes. Making arguments about which political party has historically been more or less racist just reinforces that. The better argument, IMHO, is to decouple race and history from how we think about today’s realities, and instead support whichever strategy has proven itself most effective. To me, the answer to that from a political perspective is clearly Republicanism/conservatism, whatever you want to call it, but traditional values, free market economics, and law and order.

THAT...is funny!!!!!

Thanks

America is not going to be saved by this kind of stuff.

So you didn't see Sam Adams in the Massachusetts taverns there ? No Sons of Liberty ?

Revolutions got to start somewhere...

but if you’re judging based on demographics, as they are wont to do, it’s hard to argue with the reality that as of now, the GOP is whiter than America in general, and the donkeys are less white.

. . . but whose fault is that? It’s not like the Republican Party has a history of excluding blacks - it’s the other way around, in the sense that Blacks left the Republican Party during the Depression, and haven’t given the Republican Party a hearing since (until, hopefully, Trump). We none of us have been around throughout history; we come along and find things as they are, and try to make the best of it. I came of age in the 1950s, in Pennsylvania - and from that perspective, Republicans had never been anti “negro” (as the polite term then was), whereas Democrats in the South were still George Wallace types. And I never was attracted to socialism - and Republicans were clearly anti, but Democrats were ambivalent at best.

But my point is really more coming from within the black community, where race and history play such a big role in our thought processes. Making arguments about which political party has historically been more or less racist just reinforces that. The better argument, IMHO, is to decouple race and history from how we think about today’s realities, and instead support whichever strategy has proven itself most effective. To me, the answer to that from a political perspective is clearly Republicanism/conservatism, whatever you want to call it, but traditional values, free market economics, and law and order.

That is an argument I am only too eager to make - if I can get a hearing. Which I can’t, if I’m prejudged. It is that unfair prejudgement which shuts down the argument before it starts, and that prejudgement seems to depend on the utter distortion of history which D’Souza rebuts. That is why D’Souza resonates with me.
The question right now is whether, and to what extent, Republican Congressmen-elect wake up Wednesday morning realizing that they are indebted to blacks for their victories. If there are 30 of them, even 20 of them, indeed if there are 10 of them and the margin of victory/defeat determining the House majority is less than that - well, I just think the political landscape will be transformed. For the better. If the Republicans lose the majority, that will be painful - but having Republican Congressmen who are in office because black votes were crucial to their success, that would be significant consolation.

Couldn’t agree more. Republicans have not gotten a fair hearing in the black community for 50 years, and D’Souza is doing important work to combat that. My thoughts are more directed at the guy in the video, and to people like Candace Owens, who are all making this argument that basically Dems are historically more racist than Republicans so go with them. Yeah, true but the better argument is who care who was more racist 50 or 100 years ago, as of now, the GOP has the better platform by a country mile.

quoting Abraham Lincoln as saying that the definition of slavery is, “You work, I eat.”

Great leaders have a way of boiling complex topics down.

Reagan's foreign policy: "We win. They lose."

Trump's election strategy: "Jobs, not mobs."

Pretty sure he called hillary a thieving bitch,...

He said, "the whole hood know that bitch is wicked".

Ouch!