Posted on 03/24/2014 1:17:08 PM PDT by jazusamo
Recently former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice added her voice to those who have long been urging the Republican Party to reach out to black voters. Not only is that long overdue, what is also long overdue is putting some time — and, above all, some serious thought — into how to go about doing it.
Too many Republicans seem to think that the way to "reach out" is to offer blacks and other minorities what the Democrats are offering them. Some have even suggested that the channels to use are organizations like the NAACP and black "leaders" like Jesse Jackson — that is, people tied irrevocably to the Democrats.
Voters who want what the Democrats offer can get it from the Democrats. Why should they vote for Republicans who act like make-believe Democrats?
Yet there are issues where Republicans have a big advantage over Democrats — if they will use that advantage. But an advantage that you don't use might as well not exist.
The issue on which Democrats are most vulnerable, and have the least room to maneuver, is school choice. Democrats are heavily in hock to the teachers' unions, who see public schools as places to guarantee jobs for teachers, regardless of what that means for the education of students.
There are some charter schools and private schools that have low-income minority youngsters equaling or exceeding national norms, despite the many ghetto public schools where most students are nowhere close to meeting those norms. Because teachers' unions oppose charter schools, most Democrats oppose them, including black Democrats up to and including President Barack Obama.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's recent cutback on funding for charter schools, and creating other obstacles for them, showed a calloused disregard for black youngsters, for whom a decent education...
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I am against school choice. There is a number of flaws with the theory.
First off, you have to ask why the school is “bad”. Is it the teachers? The amount of funding? Or the students? (If the kids come from a place where education is frowned on, they will not have a good shot no matter where they go).
Second, once a private school starts taking State money, it is no longer a private school. The State will start dictating on how that school will operate, and you may end up as bad as the old public schools.
Third, don’t hold up Charter schools as an example. They are VERY selective on who gets in, stays in, and the requirements of the teachers. If you take that away, the performance will fall.
When, then, would you propose as an alternative to the Leftist-dominated public school system?
Said by a true statist?
I choose not to send my children to public school - so take that.
Parents should pay for their own children's school. Making the old lady down the street fund it is immoral. If you created the child, then man up and care for them.
One problem is their size. Nobody, let alone 25-30 staffers can supervise 2000+ 15-18 years olds.
No high school should have more than 500-600 kids. The only reason to pool that big is for the building of special projects like football stadiums. Sports would be just as competitive without the mega schools.
Why waste the time, effort, and money? Blacks continually vote Democrat AGAINST their own interests. Blacks have done FAR worse under Obama than Bush. If Obama could run again he would still get 98 percent of the black vote. If they don’t care to help themselves and flee the Liberal/Democrat PLANTATION how in the world can they be helped by anyone?
Not sure how it can happen, or if it can happen, but conservatives need to take their message to the ghettos, both urban and academic.
This is a phony idea from Sowell, and doesn’t get out of the artificial semantics of the Demwit agitprop.
How about attacking the very notion that the Demagogic Party is somehow a better choice — they are the party of slavery, the party of secession, the party of the klan, the party of jim crow, the party of segregation, the party of Cabrini Green...
How about attacking the very notion that the Republican Party is the party of white people? How about attacking the racist Dhimmicrats’ pejoratives directed against Republican politicians who happen to be black?
Thanks jazusamo.
President Obama won women by 12 percentage points, while Mitt Romney won men by 8.
Admittedly, the students going to the good schools will “self select”,
and the kids whose parents don’t givadamn will be stuck in a bad school.
But, really, is that bad? The alternative is to keep the kids of parents who care trapped with the kids of parents who don’t.
I wonder what the gender gap was with Willie Jeff, he seemed to have a way with women. :)
Outlaw school buses and force schools back into the neighborhood and those problems will just fade away. With the technology we have today there is absolutely no need for a large school except maybe because sports are big business.
Why does free republic keep posting this guys views. He is GOPe all the way. He has view that the Tea Party and conservatives should die, or sit in the back of the bus.
He is comfortable with Karl Rove, Crispy Cream , Rubio, Jeb Bush. He hates the guys we like Cruz, Lee, Jindle and our Lady Liberty Palin.
I don’t have interest in Mr. AS Sowell. Lets have a poll and see if anyone thinks he is relevant to Freepers.
Why does free republic keep posting this guys views. He is GOPe all the way. He has view that the Tea Party and conservatives should die, or sit in the back of the bus.
He is comfortable with Karl Rove, Crispy Cream , Rubio, Jeb Bush. He hates the guys we like Cruz, Lee, Jindle and our Lady Liberty Palin.
I don’t have interest in Mr. AS Sowell. Lets have a poll and see if anyone thinks he is relevant to Freepers.
Amen and that's an excellent post. Zman seems to agree with libs, ignore what they don't agree with and censor.
What other right of center writers do you object to?
Are you suggesting Sowell be banned from FR?
Should we also burn all his books?
Here’s the chart going back to 1952
http://www.gallup.com/poll/158588/gender-gap-2012-vote-largest-gallup-history.aspx
It’s interesting. Clinton won both the women and men vote in ‘92 and ‘96, whereas Obama lost the men vote in ‘08 and ‘12.
I guess it proves there are more men who will vote for a liberal than men who will vote for a pansy. HA!
Don't you think it is odd to be against socialized medicine but for socialized education?
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