GOP to Reach Out to Blacks on Urban Radio

WINS News ^ | 12/13/03

[ServesURight]

Actually, he's right. The GOP is wasting its time trying to PANDER to blacks.

[rdb3]

Don't waste the time and effort.

Don't worry about me, Jimbaugh. I won't "darken" your door.

[FreedomPoster]

Agreed. It's not like we need 51% of the black vote. Even 20% would shake the Democrats to their core. They'd be toast.

[Smogger]

Where does it say "pander" to blacks in the article?

[FreedomPoster]

And following up to that, here in ATL I see a *lot* of younger Buppies who would be natural Republican voters, if we can convince them to leave historical / family voting patterns.

[rdb3]

Where does it say "pander" to blacks in the article?

It doesn't. As you already know, black equals "pander." That's the underlying assumption around here anyway.

[Da Mav]

GOP pandering to Blacks by promoting black conservatives?

Sounds sooooo much like the stereotypes I would expect to find on the DemocratUnderground. What a crock.

[yankeedame]

OK, so it might sway 2% of the vote. Another effort gets another 2%, another gets 3%...

Yes, but that takes patience and forethought. Two items that have never been plentiful -or in demand - in politics.

[cyborg]

Say that to Clarence Thomas' face. I'm sure you woke up on the wrong side of the bed today.

[cyborg]

Oh yes. He runs under the "unity party" label because he said he would never be mayor if he just said 'republican'. He's a good mayor, and I'd vote for him. I live in Hempstead BTW.

[cyborg]

Since when reaching out to black people is always pandering? If the republican party didn't sell out black people early in the game, they'd have no problem now. I disagree with you thoroughly.

[cyborg]

NEW YORK (AP) -- In an effort to break the Democratic Party's grip on the black vote, several leading black Republicans have accepted an offer from one of the nation's largest urban radio networks to deliver a weekly address targeting African Americans.

*** Some FReepers can't read because it says clearly the RADIO NETWORK approached them first. Doesn't that say something?

[jagrmeister]

Right. When we reach out to blacks, its "pandering", but when we reach out to the Christian community or the pro gun-rights groups, it's party building. A meaningless double standard.

[Tennessean4Bush]

All we need to do to peel away 35% of the black vote is make 2004 the year of the School Voucher.

[Sabertooth]

As you already know, black equals "pander." That's the underlying assumption around here anyway.

It often is, and folks ought to hold their tongues.

Unfortunately, though (and I'm not saying anything you don't already know), the GOP leadership often lives down to the expectations of pandering when it comes to outreach to Black constituents. The palpable condescension of trying to sound like an alternative plantation to the Democrats, by offering Blacks more of the same victimology, but less, perpetuates every vicious cycle in the Black electoral dynamic.

I have no idea if this will be the case in the effort described in the article above, and I'm hopeful that it won't be.

The only thing that makes the Democrats' nearly-monolithic Black constituency seem so impervious to conservatism is the presumption of so many conservatives that Blacks are somehow incapable of grasping the merits of conservative principles in their own right.

I'd suggest that any conservatives and Republicans who think these efforts are a waste of time should consider that if the Democrats only pick up 80% of the Black vote in 2004, they can not win the Presidency.

[Tennessean4Bush]

School vouchers pushed hard, long, and consistently by Republicans will cement the Democrats as the minority party for the next 30 years. It's a WMD just sitting there, begging to be detonated and kill of the liberals once and for all.

[cyborg]

I agree

[Tennessean4Bush]

kill "off" not "of"

[thathamiltonwoman]

Nice thought but this is a complete waste.