[Steely Tom]

Ping

[V_TWIN]

“As a black conservative often times you are thought of as an Uncle Tom or perhaps a traitor to your own race,”

often times?.........often times? How ‘bout EVERY time. Gotta keep ‘em on da plantation YO!

[Opinionated Blowhard]

When asked about the GOP’s unflattering racial history, including the “Southern Strategy” that former Republican National Committee Chair Ken Mehlman formally apologized to the NAACP for . . . .

This is frustrating beyond belief. Even in an article that allegedly is sympathetic to Republicans, you have a statement like this. I cannot think of a bigger lie in American politics than the idea that the GOP has an "unflattering racial history." And this idea that the "Southern Strategy" was some deliberate racial ploy that a Republican RNC chairman should apologize for is disgusting. It all simply plays into the idea that the GOP is hostile to blacks.

The Democrats were, are and always will be the Party of Race. They played on anti-black prejudice to stay in power until about the 1960s, then they whipped up black racial hostility to stay in power after that. A big chunk of the media is an arm of the Dem Party so of course they are going to ignore stories about Libs and Dems using racism to attack black Republicans.

[Carl Vehse]

"Why are racist attacks on black Republicans so underreported by the media?”

Because the left-wing fifth-column media are lying, traitorous, oxygen-stealing pieces of human excrement.

[Sergio]

bkmk

[driftless2]

My own opinion is that it is quite useless to try to appeal to black Americans to vote Republican. You can talk to them until you're blue in the face about oppressive gov. policies, free markets, and individual responsibility to no effect. It looks very clear that the great majority of black Americans don't believe in any of those things. They view themselves as victims of a still oppressive, racist system, and they are owed. Every time some Pubbie politician goes before a black audience, he is expected to grovel and talk about all the wonderful things he or she will do for blacks.

Except the message, if the candidate is a real conservative, should be that blacks, like all other American ethnicities, should stand on their own two feet and shun gov. help. Obviously, this is the last thing American blacks want to hear. Time to cut the cord and the pleading and begging.

[Robwin]

Secret? Ain’t nothing secret ‘bout it. Been going on for years. Just ask Thomas Sowell or Clarence Thomas.