Blacks and the GOP

Wow. You really got your tights in a twist over that one, didn’t you? Honesty wasn’t saying that reparations should be made to black people. He was just using a hyperbolic example of something that could possibly cause more blacks to vote for Republicans.

No one believes that the descendants of slaves will get reparations for past evils committed by whites; that ship has sailed. Should there have been reparations for blacks? Damned skippy, just as there were for former Japanese internment camp victims. However, too much time has passed and the African genetic pool in America has become too polluted by at least 150 years of bi- and multi-racial progeny to easily determine who would be eligible.

I think it bears repeating that just because the majority of blacks vote for the Democratic party doesn’t mean the Democratic party is the black party.

Also, why do you insist on calling the Democratic party the Democrat party? That’s not its name.

Polluted? :dubious:

Susanann, you obviously don’t have to answer this question, and if you reply that it’s none of my business I will understand, but I am curious: Are you black or white? Certain of your posts have led me to a conclusion, and it would help to know whether or not my suspicion is correct before responding to you further.

Thanks.

Yes. It’s a perfectly appropriate term for the process of a substance, element or pool becoming impure through the incorporation of foreign matter.

That’s the reasoning underlying affirmative action programs, that it’s not possible to fairly address compensation on an individual basis, but that the social effects of that history persist to the present day, and *those *can be dealt with. It sure took us long enough to get started, though.

Do you actually think you have contributed anything useful to this discussion?

Agreed.

Therefore, everyone needs to stop calling the Republican Party a white party just because a majority of whites vote for the Republican Party.

Neither.

But what the heck does my race have to do with it? or with your response?

There are more white people than black people in the US. Black people are a minority, meaning not the majority. All black people can be members of just one party without actually being in the majority of that party.

Both the Democrats and the Republicans have lots of white voters. The Republicans don’t have much other than white voters. The Democrats have lots of non-white voters.

Just as a snapshot from 2008:

…Sigh. I don’t believe anyone here did that, Susanann. Are you sure you’re not my sister? Sheesh.

You never answer when people ask why you seem to ignore the last 40 years. The Republican party has not been the same since Nixon.

Yeah then all those filibustering Democrats became Republicans.

Being called a Republican is not really considered a personal attack or name-calling.

We don’t call Republicans white because most whites are Republicnas, we call Republicans a white party because almost all Republicans are white. The OP is asking why the Republican party doesn’t have more diversity (specifically more blacks) and the answer is because Republicans pander to racists. This thread should have been about 4 posts long.

Well, she did treat us to that entertaining discussion of airline deregulation and Sarah’s introduction of Free! Money! for Alaskans, and so forth. Didn’t you enjoy that too?

You are right that I should’ve been more explicit in assigning the credit when it comes to the Congress. I was going by memory of the JFK speech and Lyndon Johnson’s push to pass it. There was a significantly increased polarization of the black vote ever since, though.

Other than sheer curiosity, is there a reason you asked this? What bearing does it have on her points?

Yes, there is.

No bearing on her points, per se, such as they were, but the wording of a few of her responses threw up a flag for me, prompting my query.

George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and many other of our greatest political leaders were born British subjects. Therefore, we should continue to support candidates for public office shivered born Bfitish citizens

Also, those who wear powdered wigs.

A rising tide lifts are boats had some validity when Kennedy was president. But lowering corporate taxes just makes money for those at the top now. Their job creation is not in America. That has been true for a long time. Don’t look to corporate America to make jobs in this country. They have proudly proclaimed the elimination of workers for decades. That, while productivity and profits were soaring. Want to help create jobs, lower taxes on local non international companies. Raise them on corporations.