Bigger GOP Paid Media Push Urged Toward Blacks

Opinion Journal ^ | July 30, 2004 | Jason Riley

[no dems]

If Republicans are serious about winning more support from black voters, a strong ad presence on major market black "urban contemporary" radio stations is crucial, writes Jason Riley in Opinion Journal today. Following the 2002 midterm elections, Richard Nadler, a Republican consultant, headed an exhaustive study of what's behind the black voter's fierce fealty to Democrats. "The Democrats coordinate a brilliant, intensive media campaign, particularly on black radio," says Mr. Nadler. "The frequency of ads [leading up to an election] is somewhere in the vicinity of four an hour during drive time. This is on urban contemporary radio stations, primarily. If you're white, you just have no idea how potent a medium this is" add Nadler.

[CatOwner]

The question becomes how much return on their "investment" would the Republicans gets? My hunch is not much. The black community in the US for the most part is completely brainwashed. They would probably view these ads as an attempt at humor. Let them come to the right on their own.

[no dems]

The black community in the US for the most part is completely brainwashed. Now, that I totally agree with for the most part. But, sooner of later, that's gotta break. With each passing election, the black community becomes more informed and less tolerant of a Democratic Party that promises them everything each election cycle but delivers nothing. Bush received around 30% of the African-American vote when he ran for reelection as Governor of Texas against a very popular Democrat. IT CAN BE DONE. But, you are right in your observation.

[anton]

Hahahaha! Siphon some GOP money into the black hole. These folks are going to vote for W. if MLK rose from the dead and went on tour with him. Anyone who has listened black radio know that these are the activist/extremists who will never vote GOP.

[no dems]

I understand what you are saying and I assume you read my post (#3) but IF, please note I said "IF", we took just 2% points from Kerry in some battleground states, that could make the difference. Please read what I said about Dubya getting 30% OF THE BLACK VOTE in Texas' gubernatorial race.

[kittymyrib]

Republicans who swallow this must have missed Al "The Race Pimp" Sharpton's convention speech that plainly said the blacks would never leave the Dems plantation...to the loudest applause of the convention. Save your money, RNC. Blacks will never figure it out. They would rather get the check in the mail from all of our paychecks and have an excuse for their failure by blaming the evil white man.

[1Old Pro]

I agree that the GOP should reach out to Blacks, but not urban Blacks. They should reash out to suburban Blacks and can incorporate this in their regular campaign messaging simply by inserting some reasons why Blacks should support the GOP.

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

I think the return on investment would be considerable. If just a small percentage of blacks could be exposed to the idea that Republicans do NOT wake up every morning salivating over the idea of screwing minorities, it would make great progress. Maybe not for this election, but for elections 20 or 30 years from now.

[hoosiermama]

IMO Frances Rice's Letter to the Democrat Party needs to be distributed widely within the black community.

[Bluegrass Conservative]

I would respectfully disagree. While there's no chance of getting anywhere over 5% of the black vote this year, things are changing. In Kentucky, several prominent black religious leaders in Louisville are now openly registered Republicans and are encouraging their congregations to vote that way as well. The black community is still one that follows their "leaders". When we have more of these people on our side, the community as a whole will follow.

Young professional blacks are becoming disenfranchised with the Democrat Party because they are recognizing that they have been used. Ten more years and I think there is a very good chance that Republican candidates can get 30-40% of the black vote.

[Bluegrass Conservative]

What is Frances Rice's letter? Who is he/she? I haven't heard anything about this

[AUH2OY2K]

Waste of money. Blacks will continue to vote for the party that enslaved them, lynched them, forced them to use separate facilities, and forced them into projects and poverty.

[southernnorthcarolina]

This article is the biggest pile of... well...

If the GOP makes a huge buy on "urban" radio stations, it's possible (unlikely, but possible) that they'd gain a percentage point or two for President Bush. But they'd also stoke interest in the race, which thus far doesn't seem to be firing up the black community. So, do we want Kerry to get 92% of 12 million black votes, or 90% of 14 million black votes? Do the math.

It is axiomatic that you spend your advertising funds on your base, especially that portion of your base living in swing states. So, with respect to radio, should the GOP run ads on country stations in Cincinnati? Yes. Smooth jazz stations in Milwaukee? Sure. Talk radio stations in Harrisburg? Of course. But hip-hop stations in da 'hood? I don't think so.

[hoosiermama]

She is a retired general from Florida...(R)(AA) I've been trying to find the letter in search....Think it was titled "An Open Letter to the Democrat Party" WIll post it if I can find it....HHhhh Wonder if I bookmarked it? WIll keep looking you're welcome to join in the search....Race ya!

[Bluegrass Conservative]

Found it! Do I win a medal? lol


Open Letter from African Americans to the Democratic Party

Open Letter from African Americans to the Democratic Party

Email from the author | 6/3/04 | Frances Rice

By Frances Rice

We, African American citizens of the United States, declare and assert:

Whereas in the early 1600’s 20 African men and women were landed in Virginia from a Dutch ship as slaves and from that tiny seed grew the poisoned fruit of plantation slavery which shaped the course of American development,

Whereas reconciliation and healing always begin with an apology and an effort to repay those who have been wronged,

Whereas the Democratic Party has never apologized for their horrific atrocities and racist practices committed against African Americans during the past two hundred years, nor for the residual impact that those atrocities and practices and current soft bigotry of low expectations are having on us today,

Whereas the Democratic Party fought to expand slavery and, after the Civil War, established Jim Crow Laws, Black Codes and other repressive legislation that were designed to disenfranchise African Americans,

Whereas the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party, and their primary goal was to intimidate and terrorize African American voters, Republicans who moved South to protect African Americans and any other whites who supported them,

Whereas, according to leading historians (both black and white), the horrific atrocities committed against African Americans during slavery and Reconstruction were financed, sponsored, and promoted by the Democratic Party and their Ku Klux Klan supporters,

Whereas from 1870 to 1930, in an effort to deny African Americans their civil rights and to keep African Americans from voting Republican, thousands of African Americans were shot, beaten, lynched, mutilated, and burned to death by Ku Klux Klan terrorists from the Democratic Party,

Whereas Democratic Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission,

Whereas the Democratic party has used racist demagoguery to deceive African Americans about the history of the Republican Party that: (a) started as the anti-slavery party in 1854, (b) fought to free African Americans from slavery, (c) designed Reconstruction, a ten-year period of unprecedented political power for African Americans, (d) passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting African Americans freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote, (e) passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting African Americans protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations, (f) passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 granting African Americans protection from the Jim Crow laws, (g) established Affirmative Action programs to help African Americans proper with Republican President Richard Nixon's 1969 Philadelphia Plan that set the first goals and timetables and his 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act that made Affirmative Action Programs the law of our nation, and (h) never sponsored or launched a program, passed laws, or engaged in practices that resulted in the death of millions of African Americans,

Whereas Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka (a 1954 decision by Chief Justice Earl Warren who was appointed by Republican President Dwight Eisenhower) was a landmark civil rights case that was designed to overturn the racist practices that were established by the Democratic Party,

Whereas after Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt received the vote of African Americans, he banned African American newspapers from the military shortly after taking office because he was convinced the newspapers were communists,

Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Law, opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and was later criticized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for ignoring civil rights issues.

Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy authorized the FBI (supervised by his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy) to investigate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on suspicion of being a communist,

Whereas Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, made a 14-hour filibuster speech in the Senate in June 1964 in an unsuccessful effort to block passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and was heralded in April 2004 by Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd as a senator who would have been a great leader during the Civil War,

Whereas when the 1964 Civil Rights Act came up for vote, Senator Al Gore, Sr. and the rest of the Southern Democrats voted against the bill,

Whereas in the House of Representatives only 61 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act as compared to 80 percent of Republicans, and in the Senate only 69 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, compared to 82 percent of the Republicans,

Whereas Democratic President Bill Clinton sent troops to Europe to protect the citizens of Bosnia and Kosovo while allowing an estimated 800,000 black Rwandans to be massacred in Africa, vetoed the welfare reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan,

Whereas Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore created harmful racial division when he falsely claimed that the 2000 presidential election was “stolen” from him and that African Americans in Florida were disenfranchised, even though a second recount of Florida votes by the “Miami Herald” and a consortium of major news organizations confirmed that he lost the election, and a ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission declared that African Americans were not denied the right to vote,

Whereas the Democratic Party's soft bigotry of low expectations and social promotions have consigned African Americans to economic bondage and created a culture of dependency on government social programs,

Whereas the Democratic Party's use of deception and fear to block welfare reform, the faith-based initiative and school choice that would help African Americans prosper is consistent with the Democratic Party's heritage of racism that included sanctioning of slavery and kukluxery, a perversion of moral sentiment among leaders of the Democratic Party whose racist legacy bode ill until this generation of African Americans,

Now, therefore, for the above and other documented atrocities and accumulated wrongs inflicted upon African Americans, we demand a formal written apology and other appropriate remuneration from the leadership of the Democratic party.

#####

Frances Rice is an attorney and an African-American woman who served in the Army for 20 years before retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. While in the Army she served as a company commander, an adjutant in a basic combat training brigade and a prosecutor in courts-marital.

Upon retiring, she was awarded the Legion of Merit. She is currently serving on the Board of the Military Officers Association of Sarasota, the SaraMana Black Republican Club and the SaraMana Community Development Corporation, a non-profit organization that helps low-income residents become homeowners and small business owners. In these positions, she puts both her Juris Doctorate and MBA degrees to good use.

She was recently appointed by Governor Jeb Bush to serve on the Medal of Merit Board for the state of Florida. Frances is married to Peter Rice, a retired diplomat from the U.S. Department of State.

[hoosiermama]

Yes Indeed! I've been looking for it for weeks.....Thanks.

[hoosiermama]

Better than I remembered it....DO you think it merits a repost to a thread of its own?....

[no dems]

Can you post a copy of that letter? I'd like to read it and send it via e-mail all over the U.S. including the BC'04 Campaign, Various State GOP headquarters, Hannity, O'Reilly and Rush.

[concerned about politics]

They are already invited into the Republican party. Every nationality is welcome, and every nationality is equal.
We can't promise one group special freebies for votes and another group other freebies for votes because of nationality. It discriminates against all the others if we do that. It's the person inside, the real person, that matters, and we treat them all the same.
What is it they want, then? They have everything everyone else has.
I guess they just don't know it. Someone else has been promising freebies for a vote for 40+ years, and they've been listening to that - and nothing but that. That's why they're still stuck inside the ghettos of the liberal cities. For the left wing vote collectors, it's easier to guarantee their votes that way. They'll vote democrat if they want their next meal. It's just the way the left wants to keep it.

[Bluegrass Conservative]

I think ANYTHING we can do to spread the word of the Republican Party to blacks and hispanics is worth doing! : ) These people have been fed a line from the Democrat Party and its elected officials for far too long. Those days are coming to an end soon.

Watch out for Dylan Glenn (GA) & Vernon Robinson (NC) . . . two black Republican candidates for Congress that are both very conservative and have a good chance of winning. (Dylan Glenn is the GOP's answer to Barack Obama and is one of the true rising stars in our party!)