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Posted on 12/25/2003 7:50:53 AM PST by StilettoRaksha
Edited on 12/25/2003 8:03:58 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
It was a historic moment for the Grand Old Party: At the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, black conservatives took center stage, delivered speeches in prime time, raised their voices in a gospel choir and locked hands with the white men who, by an overwhelming majority, run the party.
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Goodbye.
Neither did I! You learn something new every day, no?
Two random thoughts evoked by this:
1) Listening to C-Span as I do, the vilest, most biggoted, ignorant, anti-Freemarket, anti-property, anti-Republican, anti-American remarks EVERY weekend are made by Blacks.
2) How much more of the Party's conservatism will have to be jettisoned to accomidate those who do not believe in the principles of smaller government and self-reliance?
The democrats want you to stay in the worst schools and sentence your children to poverty. The republicans want to empower you to send your children to the best schools.
The concept of school choice gets about 80-85% approval in the black community. It is time the republicans bury the democrats on this one. It is there, it has been there, it is "low-hanging fruit".
Why the republicans have not pounced on this is beyond me.
No need, in this case. School choice gets around 80% approval in the black community. School choice is the issue to break the government monopoly on education and introduce real competition in education. While many do not embrace conservative principles in the black community, on this issue there is common ground and another entrance into the GOP's big tent.
1. Re getting 25% of blacks to vote for the GOP: fat chance! To those who say we've got to start somewhere, that's true. But still, fat chance.
2. Re "black vote," I didn't know votes came in colors. People, yes; votes, no.
Republicans would win 35% of the black vote, 55% of the hispanic vote, and 65% of the white vote. They would carry all 50 states including Vermont, and have a mandate to drive a stake through the heart and soul of the democratic machine: the teacher's union.
I hope you are right and that they can be deprogrammed from the path that they have taken..........without compromising our principles.
Republicans, of the post reconstruction era, abandoned efforts to franchise and mainstream blacks in a silent compromise of the last two decades of the 1800s. Those efforts, as much as the democrat KKK, allowed Jim Crow to be established in the south, but also in rural states up north such as Indiana and elsewhere.
Likewise, in efforts to break the "solid south" of the Democrats, Republicans let "States Rights" issues become a code-word hiding place for unreformed Segregationists to migrate to the Republican Party with only slow ripening efforts to internally seperate bigotry from "keeping politics local."
Nixon introduced the first real temporary "affirmative action", but Truman was the guy that desegregated the Armed Forces.
Race relations in this country have lagged, and even taken steps backward, during that administration of both parties. The faults are in our individual characters and not exclusively in out political principles and parties that so poorly represent those same principles, IMHO.
And Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. I have mostly given up on C-SPAN because they took a decidedly hard Left turn "coincidentally" at the same time as Republicans gained majority the House in 1994. C-SPAN turned from "neutral" to Left so fast it gave me whiplash.
You're gonna have to back up your claims here.
Where in the article did it say (intimate, suggest, allude to, offer) Pubs must do any "out-Liberaling" the Dems?
If "[i]t appears," then show me your foundation from the article for such a statement.
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