Posted on 06/07/2005 2:12:15 PM PDT by wagglebee
Hip-hop honcho Russell Simmons said yesterday that Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean isn't doing as well with African-Americans as his GOP counterpart, Ken Mehlman.
"When it comes to reaching out to poor people and minorities, I think there's no enthusiasm on Howard's part," Simmons told the New York Daily News.
By contrast, said the rap mogul, RNC chief Mehlman "shows a real willingness to listen."
Simmons' comments come just four months after Dean blasted the GOP for its supposed inability to attract minorities.
Addressing a meeting of black Democrats in February, Dean joked:
"You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people of color in a single room? Only if they had the hotel staff in here."
Last month, the Rev. Al Sharpton blasted Dean for discriminating against African-Americans.
"I'm taking Dean to task right now for the lack of black inclusion at the highest levels of the Democratic Party," Sharpton told WWRL radio hosts Steve Malzberg and Karen Hunter. "It's the lowest in thirty years."
That's because the 'Rats take black votes for granted and don't really care about Blacks other than that.
But Dean better get his act together, the GOP needs him to keep his job a while longer, he's doing great.
Then I think you meant "Dean doesn't need to get his act together".
No, I mean he needs to make the 'Rats a LITTLE happier, otherwise they are going to fire him. Howie is a gift to the GOP.
Sometimes I think that Dean is so dense that he'll start throwing around the hip-hop term "n*g**z" (you know what I mean) in a lousy attempt to pander to blacks. I mean, remember, this is the guy that said Job was his favorite book of the New Testament.
In college he asked for an african american roomate so he could "help him out" and "learn from him".
It sounded like he was doing an anthropological study.
It didn't work, since he really doesn't understand African Americans anymore today then he did back then, just sterotypes and what other left wing elitists tell him.
I don't think he has anything against african americans, he just probably assumes they are poor, can't donate money and will vote for democrats anyway so there is no point in meeting with them.
Especially when he thinks he knows issues that are important to African Americans, there is no need (in his mind) to be told something he already thinks he knows.
There is a reason he was bombing out in the primaries with African Americans, but some folks seem to have forgotten that part.
Trouble in Dr. Demento's funhouse?
There's nothing new about the racism in the dem party. Dean just doesn't hide it as well as the others.
Okay. I see your point there also. I have to admit I almost look forward to seeing what "pearls of wisdom" he is going to share with us next.
When Russell Simmons, a dyed-in-the-wool leftist maniac, says that the RNC is doing a better job than the DNC in conversing with black voters - then the DNC has a problem.
anyone see Mehlman on Meet the Press last weekend, what a study in contrasts to Mr. Dean
Mehlman was calm, articulate
even though he could have trounced on Reid, he said, in a graceful way, that Mr. Reid is being somewhat confusing, he call the President a loser and a liar, neither of which are appropriate for a House Leader, he accuses the President about lying when he said he would not interfere with the matter of the judical nominees, which the President hasn't, true to his word
Russert interjects about Cheney, Mehlman stays non plussed, well Tim Cheney was asked what he would do in a particular situation and he is an officer of the Senate and he merely outlined what he would do if a particular set of circumstances came about
but not only that Tim, Henry Reid after calling the President a liar then asked the President to get involved in the whole filibuster debate, so Mr. Reid is hardly in a position to call the President a liar now is he?
no matter what Tim threw at him, Mehlman kept the same cool calm tone, I couldn't have I've had said Tim don't get me started on Henry Reid......
you got that right.....
Dean was raised in a Park Avenue condo and then moved to Vermont...his only interaction with blacks was with his doorman.
The problem is a nearly anthropological, and hilariously wrongheaded, fixation on "exhibiting tropes," which apparently are a sort of hidden, cultural secret handshake... as in "he exhibited every trope of blackness," in reference to BJ, the first black president. Of course, when you get someone a bit less slick in the costume, a little more wooden, things degenerate into unintentional comedy, such as Kerry's "I want to be remembered as the second black president," TuhRAYzuh's immortal "I am an African-American" and just about every tin-eared effort at "outreach" that ever fell flat out of Albert Gore's mouth.
Dean has a similar problem, but it is a problem with much, much more potential entertainment value. He has the tin ear of Gore, the glib smugness of Kerry, the poor impulse control of TuhRAYzuh and the charm of Hillary, wrapped up in a persona that is oddly like John McCain.
Slowly minorities will realize that the democrat party wants them only for their votes.
This administration has more minorities serving in it than any democrat administration (if one can think back that far, that is!)
Lets take a stab at this
Republicans have never done an honest days work.
People of color all work at hotels as staff.
Southerners drive around with Confederate flags on their trucks and vote only on God, guns and gays.
Doesn't this sound like an ignorant fool who is clueless?
The DemoSocialists have pushed aside promoting an agenda for blacks and realized that the Homosexual community is the one they cater to most.
It's good for us because a significant proportion of the black community is religious, and homosexual marraige doesn't fit in with their beliefs.
Dean has the typical New England attitude toward minorities...
"I have nothing against minorities....I'm sure that if I ever met one, we'd get along just fine."
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