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Date Posted: 14:17:18 01/04/03 Sat
In reply to:
Max
's message, "Re: Why Blacks Hate Conservatives" on 16:28:57 01/03/03 Fri
Just when you think you've seen it all, then comes this post! WOW
I love how you speak of "the black vote", as if African-Americans are some mindless group of sheep who get together and decide as a group who to vote for. You refer to their vote as a prize that needs to be won, rather than being genuinely concerned with their interests.
Rather than looking at what needs to be done to sway their votes, perhaps your Republican party would be better off looking at what can actually be done to better their lives and let their votes fall where they may? You've admitted that every attempt to get their "votes" has failed miserably. Perhaps that is because the movtivation weren't genuine.
If I were an African-American, I would be quite offended by your charactarizations and assumptions that people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton speak on behalf of all African-Americans. What is worse, that you actually had the nerve to suggest that blacks are slaves to the Democratic Party, it is this very type of characterizations that anger blacks and keep them with Democrats. I would have thought after Trent Lott, you Republicans would have gotten that into your heads, but apparently, you haven't learned anything.
I also suggest you take some time to learn more about the Civil War and the events that lead up to it. If you think the Civil War was only about slavery, and keeping white plantation owners rich, you have alot to learn.
The biggest problem the Republicans need to overcome as a party, is the belief that they are a corporation party. Tax cuts that favor the rich and/or corporations, are not things that low income African-Americans like to hear about. They also need diversity in their ranks, with no black Republican Senators, it makes it difficult for them to believe that Republicans can identify with them.
If Republicans want the black vote, then they need to get some blacks in the party, and show that they are a diverse group, not just some group of arrogant white folks who "think" they know what is important to them because they've read some survey conducted on black voters.
On the same token, the Democrats need to make sure they are living up to the expectations of black voters, and truely represent their interests or they can expect that vote to disappear like their control of Congress did. Nothing lasts forever, and only time will tell which party African-Americans think is the one to best represent them.
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