Republicans and Blacks

RealClearPolitics ^ | 1/31/06 | Thomas Sowell

[NCSteve]

Sowell ping (for clyde now, for you when you get back, TC).

I had forgotten the incident with Gingrich and JC Watts. I won't forget it again.

[CGVet58]

because the governorship is a more dependable track to higher office such as POTUS. Guvs have exec experience, Senators - in their best days - are glorified lobbyists. I think only one senator has become president since wwII and that was JFK.

Besides, today's current crop of senators are imprinted with the image of losers/imbeciles - from daschle's obstruction to reid/kennedy/kerry frothings to herThighness' wet-finger-in-the-wind whims... nor are the republicans clean from this stain... mccain's stomping of the first amendment, frist's lack of backbone, specter...

who would want to be associated with such a group of political whores?

[blaquebyrd]

"A governor should have some real experience in business and/or politics."

Yeah just like Jesse the Body and the Terminator. Just think two future governors starring in a classic like Predator.

[Calpernia]

Back in 1997, when black Republican Congressman J.C. Watts denounced people like Jesse Jackson and then D.C. mayor Marion Barry as "race-hustling poverty pimps," House Speaker Newt Gingrich took it upon himself to apologize to Jesse Jackson.

To apologize for what another man said is to treat that man as if he were your child or your servant. Gingrich then added further insult by inviting Jesse Jackson to join him in his box for the Clinton inauguration for his second term as president.

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I didn't know this. Gingrich should have been censured.

[sangrila]

I agree. I think the black community is starting to see past the DNC's race game. Since the Civil Rights bill The places where blacks have suffered the most has been in big cities run by democrats. The Dems know that highly successful minorities who own businesses are more likely to become Republicans than poor disenfranchised minorities. It sounds cynical to many people, but I honestly don't believe that the Dems want minorities to become wealthy.

[clyde asbury]

"Hey - excuse me, homes!"

"We're from out of town."

[Tax-chick]

Sowell bttt