Cracks in the dam. If even a significant minority of black voters begin to accept the possibility of voting GOP when th situation calls for it, the Democratic party is going to find itself scrambling to hold together a majority in many elections. Can you imagine if inner city Blacks shift even 10-20% Republican? Some major city power structures could collapse...and that's a good thing for all of us.
----Cracks in the dam. If even a significant minority of black voters begin to accept the possibility of voting GOP when th situation calls for it, the Democratic party is going to find itself scrambling to hold together a majority in many elections.----
And that's why the overriding imperative for the Democratic Party has been to keep as many black Americans as possible ignorant, afraid, or both. To accomplish the former, they not only destroyed the two-parent black family unit; they wrecked the education system in this country -- for all colors, but especially for black children who found themselves trapped in inner-city schools that were left to the worst deterioration -- and have opposed any and all attempts, such as vouchers, to reform it.
Having insitutionalized IGNORANCE over several generations, to the point that many young blacks have come to take PRIDE in it (succeeding in school is considered "acting white"), the Democrats were able to instill and perpetuate a monstrous FEAR of the opposition party. Republicans wanted to REPEAL the Civil Rights Act; Republicans wanted to BURN black churches; Republicans wanted to CHAIN BLACK PEOPLE TO THE BUMPERS OF PICK-UP TRUCKS AND DRAG THEM TO THEIR DEATHS. The Dems helped pound this insanity into the heads of the black population by allowing some blacks to rise to positions of power in their party -- but never TOO high -- so as to use them as Certified Spokespeople for their campaign of racial fear. The Maxine Waters, John Conyers, Corrine Browns, Sheila Jackson Lees, and Cynthia McKinneys KNOWINGLY traded the integrity of their own people for seats at the table of power within the Democratic Party; whether or not they know that they will never be allowed to rise higher within that party (witness Harold Ford, Jr.), they'll say and do anything just to keep what power they do have.
Voila! A 90+ percent black voting bloc.
What the Democratic Party has done to American blacks in this country, all in the name of consolidating political power, is beyond monstrous; beyond criminal; beyond inhuman. The Dems have RUINED THE LIVES of countless millions of blacks over several generations. Many of the blacks who have succeeded and prospered in this country have done so in large part because they were able to break out of this terrible sociopolitical shell the Dems have constructed around them -- which took more effort, courage, and dedication than many people of ANY color have in them. But more blacks ARE breaking free, more SEE how the Democrats have tried to use them, and MORE and MORE are NOT amused. The cracks in the dam are INDEED multiplying; they will not show themselves in significant numbers this year, and maybe not even in '08, but the leaks are RAPIDLY becoming a flood, and when that breaks, the Democrats will pay a very dear price for what they have done.
-Dan
If even a significant minority of black voters begin to accept the possibility of voting GOP when th situation calls for it, the Democratic party is going to find itself scrambling to hold together a majority in many elections. I think you understate a bit. If the GOP starts regularly polling 20+% of the black vote the Democratic Party is quite literally finished as a national political party. The solidarity of the black vote is the only tentpole the Democrats have left. Without it, they have no hope of recapturing Congress and the White House will be a virtual built-in GOP lock.