. . . 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.