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Why is the Black Vote in the Democrats' Pocket?
Pajamas Media ^ | July 30, 2008 | Juliette Ochieng

Posted on 08/17/2008 4:23:55 AM PDT by gusopol3

The Republican Party that Buckley, Goldwater, and Reagan (re)built has not been designed to reach out to a group on the basis of identity, but on the basis of a given group’s ideas and values. By the party’s very definition — its basic principles — this precludes reaching out to groups which have race, ethnicity, and/or gender as their sole criterion for coalescing as a political entity. So when some observers wonder what the Republican Party is going to “do for” the “black community,” most Republicans will have a certain look of puzzlement on our faces, as if someone just asked why we don’t offer attachable wings so that our prospective party members can fly.

Many black Americans cannot shake the notion that a political party is supposed to provide quid pro quo. That the Republican Party won’t do anything for them besides get off their backs, get other citizens off their backs, and get out of their way so they can pursue happiness just isn’t good enough. But where did the idea come from?

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KEYWORDS: blackvote; identity; values
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1 posted on 08/17/2008 4:25:02 AM PDT by gusopol3
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Why is the Black Vote in the Democrats' Pocket?

Marketing.

2 posted on 08/17/2008 4:27:08 AM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote!)
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close


3 posted on 08/17/2008 4:28:55 AM PDT by gusopol3
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To: gusopol3
The real question is; When is the black community going to do something for the black community besides blame whitey?
4 posted on 08/17/2008 4:35:03 AM PDT by poobear (“…individual salvation depends on collective salvation." Barack Hussein Obama Wesleyan University)
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To: gusopol3
Related link....

The Racist History of the Democratic Party

5 posted on 08/17/2008 4:37:06 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: raybbr
Marketing.

Nope. It is called pandering.

6 posted on 08/17/2008 4:38:39 AM PDT by Jeff Gordon ("An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last." Churchill)
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To: gusopol3

Because the dems have sold their constituents the idea that democrat policies would help them if only those evil Republicans would not get in the way.
The reality is that democrat policies hurt those they pretend to help.


7 posted on 08/17/2008 4:39:52 AM PDT by BooksForTheRight.com (Fight liberal lies with knowledge. Read conservative books and articles.)
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Okay, I know marketing isn't the only reason. It's been the dems unending push to provide "free stuff" for the "poor and minorities". With that came the notion, that they constantly engender, that only the dems give them "free stuff" and "care".

So, mostly it IS marketing - with tax dollars no less - that they have convinced the poor and minorities that only THEY have given them "free stuff".

8 posted on 08/17/2008 4:41:19 AM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote!)
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To: poobear

my personal observation is that they do a great deal for each other and for whites as well, and this is based on a charitable attitude that somehow goes missing when larger issues are considered. It seems like their political thinking is victim of a very successful propaganda effort, that this piece explores. Why remember that Barry Goldwater voted against the Civil Rights Act 40 + years ago, but forget the racial politics that the Democrats pursued for decades that made the Civil Rights act seem so necessary ?


9 posted on 08/17/2008 4:44:17 AM PDT by gusopol3
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It was planned...

“...while on a trip with two governors, Johnson reportedly made the following comment in explaining why the civil rights bill was so important to him. He said it was simple: ? I’ll have them niggers voting Democratic for two
hundred years.”

The rest is history.


10 posted on 08/17/2008 4:44:23 AM PDT by RedEyeJack
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To: raybbr

I really think “marketing” is a good description but needs a modifier like “snake oil,” “scare tactics,” “coercive ,” whatever.


11 posted on 08/17/2008 4:46:59 AM PDT by gusopol3
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To: mewzilla

that’s the thread that sent me searching as well as this little bit of tortured leftist history from the link at the Arizona thread this A.M.

“When Goldwater ran against the 1964 Civil Rights Act during his failed presidential campaign that year, and when Republicans successfully used racial appeals as an electoral strategy for decades after that, black voters left the Republican Party, never to return.”

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/aug/17/signs-regions-emerging-power-found-arizona/


12 posted on 08/17/2008 4:53:56 AM PDT by gusopol3
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Republicans offer a hand up.

Democrats offer a hand out.

You figure it out.


13 posted on 08/17/2008 5:00:12 AM PDT by airborne (American by birth! Christian by choice!)
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Ignorance... gullibility, herd mentality and a general preference for socialist policy.


14 posted on 08/17/2008 5:04:04 AM PDT by johnny7 ("Duck I says... ")
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To: gusopol3
One good link deserves another.

From this one...

Quotes, Sayings, and Aphorisms by Theodore Roosevelt

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts “native” before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.

15 posted on 08/17/2008 5:04:34 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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“Why is the Black Vote in the Democrats’ Pocket?”

The Stockholm Effect


16 posted on 08/17/2008 5:06:20 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland ("We have to drain the swamp" George Bush, September 2001)
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amen


17 posted on 08/17/2008 5:07:03 AM PDT by gusopol3
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To: gusopol3

I’ve said it on other threads and I’ll repost it here: It was the Republican Party that abolished slavery in this country.

That, in itself, ought to tell the black community that it is Republicans who embrace their values as persons.


18 posted on 08/17/2008 5:07:31 AM PDT by quintr
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To: HereInTheHeartland

a good way of summarizing her conclusion; a big element is depriving of news from the outside, like the historical blackout she describes.


19 posted on 08/17/2008 5:08:52 AM PDT by gusopol3
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This guy knows why. This is one of the best speeches/sermons I've seen in a while. James David Manning PhD rips Obama up one side and down the other and he's Black. The video originally came from the ATLAH website but this link is to a copy I saved on my picture/video website. James David Manning PhD

Here is his website: ATLA-World Ministries

20 posted on 08/17/2008 5:10:47 AM PDT by Melinda in TN
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