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NYT: The Puzzle of Black Republicans ("modern black Republicans have been more tokens...")
The NY Times ^ | December 18, 2012 | ADOLPH L. REED Jr.

Posted on 12/18/2012 10:45:48 PM PST by dead

WHEN Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina announced on Monday that she would name Representative Tim Scott to the Senate, it seemed like another milestone for African-Americans. Mr. Scott will complete the term of Senator Jim DeMint, who is leaving to run Heritage Foundation. He will be the first black senator from the South since Reconstruction; the first black Republican senator since 1979, when Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts retired; and, indeed, only the seventh African-American ever to serve in the chamber.

But this “first black” rhetoric tends to interpret African-American political successes — including that of President Obama — as part of a morality play that dramatizes “how far we have come.” It obscures the fact that modern black Republicans have been more tokens than signs of progress.

The cheerleading over racial symbolism plays to the Republicans’ desperate need to woo (or at least appear to woo) minority voters, who favored Mr. Obama over Mitt Romney by huge margins. Mrs. Haley — a daughter of Sikh immigrants from Punjab, India — is the first female and first nonwhite governor of South Carolina, the home to white supremacists like John C. Calhoun, Preston S. Brooks, Ben Tillman and Strom Thurmond.

Mr. Scott’s background is also striking: raised by a poor single mother, he defeated, with Tea Party backing, two white men in a 2010 Republican primary: a son of Thurmond and a son of former Gov. Carroll A. Campbell Jr. But his politics, like those of the archconservative Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, are utterly at odds with the preferences of most black Americans. Mr. Scott has been staunchly anti-tax, anti-union and anti-abortion.

Even if the Republicans managed to distance themselves from the thinly veiled racism of the Tea Party adherents who have moved the party rightward...

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1 posted on 12/18/2012 10:45:59 PM PST by dead
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To: dead

What a twit.


2 posted on 12/18/2012 10:48:55 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny (Thought Puzzle: Describe Islam without using the phrase "mental disorder" more than four times.)
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To: dead

I’m not wasting the effort to click on this crap.


3 posted on 12/18/2012 10:48:55 PM PST by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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To: dead

As a Conservative, who is Black I feel more at home in room full of Tea Party members than a room full of Marxist Leftists, enough said.


4 posted on 12/18/2012 10:49:21 PM PST by Trueblackman (I would rather lose on Conservative principles than vote for a RINO candidate.)
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To: dead
His appointment to the Senate seemed like a milestone for black American politicians, except that the NY Times doesn't like his politics, so it doesn't count.

I know the NYT is going to fold and go completely out of business soon, but it's taking so long...

5 posted on 12/18/2012 10:49:27 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: dead

This is racist, bigoted, malicious, mendacious, and foul. They dare go here and we should spit in their damn eye for it.


6 posted on 12/18/2012 10:51:39 PM PST by MestaMachine (It's the !!!!TREASON!!!!, stupid!)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

adolf. How freakin’ fitting.


7 posted on 12/18/2012 10:52:41 PM PST by MestaMachine (It's the !!!!TREASON!!!!, stupid!)
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To: Psycho_Bunny
no, not a twit...a big fat arse....

pubs have put up many fine upstanding....even clean....black candidates....

but it threatens the plantation mentality so the rats fight it....

I'm not so sure that Mia Love and Allen West weren't targeted for ballot mischief....

the rats do not want to deal with pubs have outspoken and intelligent black people.....

so I say...we redouble our efforts and get a ton more elected ....

maybe West could run for higher office and I certainly hope Mia Love gives it another go....

8 posted on 12/18/2012 10:54:46 PM PST by cherry
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To: Trueblackman

Kevin, how many times are we going to let them get away with this crap? How many times is too many?


9 posted on 12/18/2012 10:55:36 PM PST by MestaMachine (It's the !!!!TREASON!!!!, stupid!)
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To: Trueblackman
According to this demagogue, your opinions are outside of those you are allowed to maintain while still remaining a part of your race.

I would imagine that its infuriating to have idiots trying to box your mind within his limitations. And his very idea that he has the authority to declare you an exile from your race!

10 posted on 12/18/2012 10:56:31 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: cherry

Of course they were targeted. It’s time to end this leftist racism once and for all.


11 posted on 12/18/2012 10:57:57 PM PST by MestaMachine (It's the !!!!TREASON!!!!, stupid!)
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To: MestaMachine

I’m confused. What positions do the Tea Party take that are “racist”? I’d really like to know.


12 posted on 12/18/2012 10:59:09 PM PST by boop ("I need another Cutty Sark"-LBJ)
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To: dead
Even if the Republicans managed to distance themselves from the thinly veiled racism of the Tea Party adherents who have moved the party rightward...
Assumes as fact something that's been wholly created by the DNC and their slobbering media lapdogs.
13 posted on 12/18/2012 11:01:24 PM PST by Bob
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To: dead

From now on the word ‘democrat’ should be prefaced or followed by the word ‘racist’. Every time no matter what the subject and no matter what race.


14 posted on 12/18/2012 11:02:09 PM PST by MestaMachine (It's the !!!!TREASON!!!!, stupid!)
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To: boop

NONE.


15 posted on 12/18/2012 11:03:05 PM PST by MestaMachine (It's the !!!!TREASON!!!!, stupid!)
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To: boop
What positions do the Tea Party take that are “racist”? I’d really like to know.

The racism of the proposals is "thinly veiled" - that's liberal speak for "we can cite any particulars, just know that what we say is true, and if you disagree, it's because you're too stupid to see through the veil which we already told you is thin. If you disagree, you're stupid. Or racist.

A thinly veiled racist, of course. You know why.

16 posted on 12/18/2012 11:03:53 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Aria

“I’m not wasting the effort to click on this crap.”

I never do. Hate to give a click-point to liberal sites and raise their analytics.


17 posted on 12/18/2012 11:04:06 PM PST by max americana (Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)
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To: Trueblackman

As a right-winger who is of Italian and Asian descent, I couldn’t stand being in the company of liberals either.


18 posted on 12/18/2012 11:07:22 PM PST by max americana (Make the world a better place by punching a liberal in the face)
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To: dead

He will be the first black senator since 1979? Wasn’t obama in the senate in 2006? Or is he not black enough. The racist democrats are not proud of his darkness.


19 posted on 12/18/2012 11:08:26 PM PST by Terry Mross ( I don't watch the "news". Someone ping me if anything big happens.)
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"the first black Republican senator since 1979"
20 posted on 12/18/2012 11:12:21 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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