Racism is alive well in the USA

Yurt said:
you're an idiot onceler. mott was talking about the post i quoted and you agreed with him. you are simply beyond dumb. you're a waste of oxygen.
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I agreed that you misrepresented what he said.

You did. Without doubt.

I need to borrow a term you always use - you're really an idiot, Yurt. Really.
 
blackascoal said:
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The question is why do blacks feel unwelcome in the Republican Party now? Is that a question worth asking? After all, the Republican Party was the party of African-Americans right up to and including Dr. King.

That answer is all too-obvious. Someone already mentioned Nixon's Southern Strategy .. and again, look at the picture of who you are.

Being a republican does not necessarily make one a racist and being a democrat does not neccesarily make one not. But without question the Democratic Party is far more aligned with the goals and aspirations of the African-American population than the Republican Party .. even in the diminshed corporate-owned state that the Democratic Party now finds itself in.

Who do you think is in a better position to determine what is in the interests of African-Americans?

African-Americans or a party full of white men?

Surely you believe that we are capable of thinking for ourselves, do you not?
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I am not disagreeing with the assessment above, but would like to take a tangent off of it if you don't mind...

do you think the African American population would be better served by putting up candidates in both parties? While there are some areas in the country this may not work, why not put forth more conservative (relatively speaking) African Americans in moderate parts of the country as Rep and Dem? Help to try and get away from one party domination of the group. While I would agree that the Dems are currently more in line with African Americans, I think any demographic that votes 85-95% for one party is going to be taken for granted by the party they favor and be ignored by the one that has little chance of earning their votes. I would also put forth that there hasn't appeared to be any improvements in helping the lower income African Americans break the cycle of one generation after another of being stuck in the low income bracket. Would a two party approach not make both parties fight to help in order to win votes? Or is it time that a third party (or more) arose to stop the two major parties from running rough shod over the general population?
 
Superfreak said:
do you think the African American population would be better served by putting up candidates in both parties? While there are some areas in the country this may not work, why not put forth more conservative (relatively speaking) African Americans in moderate parts of the country as Rep and Dem? Help to try and get away from one party domination of the group.
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Why do you suppose it 'may not work'? Why do you suppose the vast majority of informed African Americans completely eschew the GOP?

Further, the African American 'population' no more 'puts forth' candidates than the white American 'population' does so. They don't all sit around and decide who best represents their race.
 
Bijou said:
Why do you suppose it 'may not work'? Why do you suppose the vast majority of informed African Americans completely eschew the GOP?

Further, the African American 'population' no more 'puts forth' candidates than the white American 'population' does so. They don't all sit around and decide who best represents their race.
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Um... actually they do tend to know who their leaders are in their communities. They do put forth candidates. They typically do so as Dems. Which was my point. One party tends to take them for granted, the other tends to ignore them... in large part because the vote is so skewed.

The main problem is in the House. Districts in many states of been rigged so that only one party has a real chance of winning. This leads to extremists winning a greater percentage of those seats. Which leads us to the polarization we see today. Not saying it is the sole cause, but it is a large part of the problem. This happens on both sides of the aisle.

As for the 'may not work' comment... it was to acknowledge that some areas are going to be more racially sensitive to where pigmentation is a deciding factor. I would prefer we not get into a whole 'this part is racist/no its not' kind of back and forth. Which is why I acknowledged it may not work everywhere up front so that we could instead discuss the concept vs. another 'they racist' discussion.

As for the African American's that are 'informed'... again, I acknowledged that of the two parties Dems align more currently... which is why I asked what he thought of an attempt to run more relatively conservative African Americans in moderate areas as Reps to try and bring that party more in line with their interests and to make the two parties earn their vote rather than simply be given it on such a consistent basis.
 
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