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[Dan from Michigan]

He's right.

In 1990, Jim Blanchard sat on his hands. He also PO'ed Coleman Young, who was the very divisive mayor of Detroit. Whites hated Coleman, but many blacks in the City of Detroit loved the guy. Coleman said he wasn't going to help Blanchard.

All the suburbs also were mad at Blanchard because of his tax increase.

The result was a monumental upset to some unknown guy at the time named John Engler.

[billhilly]

Clarence Page has made a career of "waiting for the republicans to "give more" than the democrats. How about hope, Clarence? How about self respect? How about a family friendly attitude?

How about a kick in the ass rather than a wake up call? How about a cold shower rather than a stagnant stream? A job rather than a check?

Success, on even footing, with every other American. These are the things that every family tries to impart to their offspring, and historically, with great effect.

Clarence, just what is it that you don't understand about this great nation, with the most generous people of all nations?

[org.whodat]

That is really good, since the last poll taken of blacks 60+ percent were opposed to amnesty for illegals. Don't think there is going to be a lot of head way here.

[ex-Texan]

*Ping*!

[The Raven]

>>most black people I know still are waiting for the Bush administration to create more jobs for blacks

Yeah, right. Libs are so blinded by ideology - it gives me a serious chuckle.

The truth is - if we had no liberals - there would be plenty of work.

[mhking]

still are waiting for the Bush administration to create more jobs for blacks than just the two mentioned above.

Or is it that they are waiting for him to bow and kiss the hand of Jesse Jackson?

Going after the black vote does not mean lying prostrate in front of Al Sharpton like some kind of defeated animal, waiting to be slaughtered.

Clarence gets part of the equation right. Younger voters (and older ones as well) are becoming more and more disallusioned. After all, you can only get lied to so many times before you begin to doubt the message -- even if the lies are told by our elders and from the pulpit (where messages are supposed to be sacrosanct and never questioned).

But by worrying about "black jobs" created by the president, he misses the larger point -- that the GOP message is good for America as a whole. And that by seeing the light, that black Americans begin to understand that the idea is to create and retain jobs for all Americans, not in the governmental sector, and certainly not beholden to the patronage of "the great white father" image that the Democratic party holds to, but from the core of America: Free enterprise and capitalism.

More and more of these types of columns are going to show up with frightening regularity between now and the election. Eventually, some of them will get it right.

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[gulfcoast6]

The civil rights 'leaders' are still milking this civil rights thing to the enth degree and THEY are the ones keeping their race back.

[arasina]

I just finished reading your interesting article entitled "Why Courting the Black Vote Won't Work" posted here on FR. I thought this thread might interest you.

To make a long story short, PING! :o)