Republicans And Blacks (Thomas Sowell)

GOPUSA ^ | April 10, 2008 | Thomas Sowell

[CutePuppy]

Straight talk is potentially our strongest weapon

Yes, but McCain would not know straight talk if it stared him straight in the face and shouted through megaphone straight into his ear.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

>>Honestly if the black voting block cannot figure out that they vote for the party of the KKK, Segragation, Jim Crowe, etc, I doubt that there is any Republican that can get through to them.<<

[Mr. Mojo]

The second proven loser is trying to appeal to blacks by offering the same kinds of things that Democrats offer-- token honors, politically correct rhetoric and welfare state benefits. Blacks who want those things know that they can already get them from the Democrats. Why should they listen to Republicans who act like imitation Democrats?'

Words of wisdom heeded by few Republicans.

[RightFighter]

Newt Gingrich is not a tin-eared moron on this issue. These are excerpts from an article that appears on his website in response to Barack Obama’s speech on race. While many here would be upset to know that Newt gave Obama a lot of credit for giving that speech, Newt also took the opportunity to issue a rational and thoughtful conservative response to the speech. Here’s some of what he said:

“I do think there’s an authenticity and legitimacy to anger by many groups in America...And I think it’s important to recognize that anger can be a source of energy to create a better future, in which case it’s a good thing. But if anger is a self-inflicted wound that limits us, it is a very bad and a very dangerous thing. And we have to be very careful about the role that anger plays in our culture.”

...

“Tragically what has happened is that cultural and political leaders have used anger as an excuse to avoid reality, as an excuse to avoid change, as an excuse to avoid accountability. Because everything that is wrong is somehow somebody else’s fault.”

To balance out ethnic gaps, educational bureaucracy needs to be eliminated. Inner city high school students should be offered the chance to graduate in fewer than four years to avoid being bored. Teachers should push the “drum beat for entrepreneurship,” because historically, ethnic groups have risen by starting their own businesses.

[FreedomPoster]

Good call. That Gingrich piece could be the basis for the message McCain should use.

Well worth reading, for sure.

The Obama Challenge: What is the Right Change to Help All Americans?
Newt Gingrich Speech to the American Enterprise Institute - Televised on C-Span 3/27/3008
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993438/posts

[ballplayer]

Problem is ,McCain is ONE HUGE PANDERER,He thinks he is a Democrat so he thinks Blacks will consider him one of them.
In other words he does not have a Clue

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

So McCain apologized for shooting MLK?

So all these years the feds had the wrong man after all.
Lock him up and we’ll get a new candidate, maybe a republican, this time.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"The black population of San Francisco, for example, has been cut in half since 1970-- and San Francisco is the very model of a community of liberal Democrats, including green zealots who are heedless of the consequences of their actions on others."

White liberals hate Black people.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Dr. Sowell nails it again.

[EternalVigilance]

Bookmarked.

[EternalVigilance]

Yep. Whether they have a “D” or an “R” by their name.

[Inwoodian]

The policies we propose are not for black Americans or white Americans. They are for all Americans. We believe that the only differences between the two are superficial and should not be used as a basis for policy. Anyone who deprives any citizen of full Constitutional rights based on these perceived differences shall be called to answer with full force of Law.

[Sunnyflorida]

“Why the hell was a war hero booed? He fought so the ingrates could boo him.”

Who cares. I’ll boo him if I get the chance because he is a socialist.

[Sunnyflorida]

We are expecting way to much of McCain if we think he is smart enough to figure this out.

[Sunnyflorida]

“Thomas Sowell for President! He’s my write in candidate.”

Dittos

[Sunnyflorida]

“Newt Gingrich is not a tin-eared moron on this issue.”

On a lot of issues. About a month ago on Rush’s show he completely jumped the shark on Global Warming.

[subterfuge]

That message can be delivered as part of televised speeches addressing other major issues facing the country. It can be delivered as part of advertisements in the general media and separately in advertisements in newspapers, magazines and television programs with a black audience.

Here is one of the problems with anyone like Newt "getting the word out". THE MEDIA WON'T COVER IT IF THERE IS A POTENTIAL TO GET MINORITIES OFF OF THE DEM PLANTATION. It just ain't gonna happen. The only time big media will let any positive toward blacks coverage out is when they have an angle they can exploit and demagogue the latest challenger to the status quo.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

... then demand that schools that consistently fail stop receiving federal funds or support.

That is exactly what Bush's much critisized Education Bill does. After three years they were on notice and after five the funds would be cut off. Now that the time is up the left is screaming bloody murder.

[RockinRight]

Now tell me, why couldn’t THIS guy be our candidate?

[RockinRight]

When middle class black people see a Republican attempting to appeal to a scoundrel organization like the NAACP, it says to them that this white politician cannot distinguish between a successful black person and a poor and worthless one. They see it as an affront because it is an affront.

I dunno...my upper middle class black co-workers still buy into that NAACP bullsh*t hook, line, and sinker.