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To: jveritas

I didn’t know I was making any holier than thou statements. I was trying to lay out facts. You seem rather sensitive to that stuff and quick with the name-calling. I prefer a rational discussion.

You say that a majority of blacks vote for government handouts and there is no way on the planet Republicans can get even 25% of the black vote. I am saying that fatalism in communicating a message to all of America is a bad form of conservatism. Your wish to give up is bad for conservatism and I don’t think those sentiments should be left unchallenged. Conservatives do have a positive message for blacks and hispanics, and making sure that gets communicated is an important task. I don’t believe that quitting is an option, which is what you seem to believe.

There are people (many of them minorities) who eloquently communicate conservative ideals and principles in ways that connect with minorities. I think those voices should be elevated and progress will be made.

You are basically saying in crass generalizations that this is who almost all minority people are so we should just give up on trying to communicate to them. I don’t object to that because it’s racist, I object to it because it is an example of lazy thinking and the kind of thinking that destroys the conservative future.


141 posted on 03/16/2009 8:13:34 AM PDT by mongrel
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To: mongrel
Look at the history of elections and tell me when is the last time Republicans got more than 20% of the black vote? Not in 40 years. This is the fact and that is reality and it is total waste of time, money, and energy to think that this can be changed. The fact is that Republicans had won and will certainly win elections with 90% of blacks voting against them so going after the black vote is waste time and energy because it is something that cannot be changed and that does not effect the elections results.
147 posted on 03/16/2009 8:22:08 AM PDT by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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