Sadly, this is what FR has come to.
You guys realize there are blacks on FR. That there are decent, dedicated blacks in our military? Or do you just forget about them when it’s convenient for you.
And shipping blacks back to Africa? Where? I was born here. I’m as American as you - my relatives may have even come here before yours did. I’m not ‘shipping back’ anywhere unless it’s to Virginia when I retire.
However, for everyone one of you and Col. West, there are 50 who eschew the values of Snoop Dog, Obama, and Jesse Jackson. Sorry, but those are the facts, and you are an exception to the rule.
You guys realize there are blacks on FR. That there are decent, dedicated blacks in our military? Or do you just forget about them when it’s convenient for you.
And shipping blacks back to Africa? Where? I was born here. I’m as American as you - my relatives may have even come here before yours did. I’m not ‘shipping back’ anywhere unless it’s to Virginia when I retire.
Unfortunately, the identity politics fostered by the Democrats as a winning electoral strategy is leading to a reaction. It's as unthinking and reflexive as some of the socialistic tenets of the average liberal, but there it is. A lot of the posters here think that the black vote for Obama is a racial thing, when in fact it's a straightforward vote for a generic Democratic candidate of any race, given that the Democratic platform is the closest thing to a Santa Claus platform that exists among the major parties.
I think Rush Limbaugh pushes that line somewhat because he's too fearful of touching the Third Rail of political commentary and risk becoming a pariah thereby getting kicked off talk radio - namely that the blacks who support the Democrats do so because they are the party of freebies and racial preferences. It's a pure pocketbook calculation. It's not even a specifically black thing, given that the elderly also tend to vote for whomever dishes up the freebies but because of the country's (non-unique) record of slavery, it's become toxic to anyone who relies on ad sponsorship to mention it.
It's not a difficult calculation. If you're black or Hispanic and your kid's got 1500 on the SAT's, and you want him to go to an Ivy League school, the only way that will happen is if racial preferences in college admissions continue to be the law of the land, enforced by lawsuits filed by the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ. And the only major party backing these mandatory racial preferences is the Democratic Party.
You’re my favorite band.
(BTW, ignore the race baiters)
“Sadly, this is what FR has come to.”
I didn’t see the already deleted post, but I can guess as to it’s content. We have our share of idiots, it would seem. But that’s no different from what it’s always been. There is always been plenty of chaff, but some diamonds as well.
As for the underlying race issue, I do think it’s a factor in the rise of hussein but I also think it’s more the underlying politics than anything. We had a race in VA must’ve been about 6-8 years ago where a black (liberal)incumbent congresscritter was challenged by a black conservative woman. She was very qualified. She was also trounced. It was just a complete steamroll. Although it was a largely black district, it was also a very liberal district.
well said!
Perhaps rh is the exception to the rule, however lets not forget that this is FR, we are freepers, we are conservatives all — whatever be the color of our skin or our religion. So, a mindless jab at a particular group labeling all as not conservative is wrong precisely because the people who will see that post (freepers) will be conservatives and may be members of that group.