I see it the opposite way. A candidate, regardless of race, wouldn’t get the vote of the opposing party, but a Black candidate would lose racist votes within his/her own party.
december: A candidate, regardless of race, wouldn’t get the vote of the opposing party, but a Black candidate would lose racist votes within his/her own party.
Both could be true; if one party tended to have more racists than the other, that party’s black candidates might lose more votes, but the other party’s black candidates might get more openly attacked. At the same time, that party’s black candidates might draw black/antiracist “loyalty votes” from members of the other party. So it’s kind of a complicated equation all told.
I think Dave Chapelle had a clever answer for this. Make your vice-president a Mexican (born in America). “You can kill me but you’ll just open up the borders. So I suggest you leave me and president Santiago to our vices.”
Kimstu, you may be right.
Getting personal, my ultra-liberal wife wouldn’t vote for pro-lifer J.C. Watts until Hell froze over. Coincidentally, I’d vote for Jesse Jackson at that very same moment.
Hispanic politicians are now winning statewide office in California and Texas. Bill Richardson and Henry Cisneros have shot their national political careers in the foot though. Of course not all Hispanics are “mestizos”, I would hesitate to call a Cuban American like Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart http://www.house.gov/diaz-balart/ “nonwhite”. “Minority” would be a better term, as it would include white Latinos, Jews, Arab Americans and so on.
Bush and the GOP are trying oh so hard to woo Hispanics: Trent Lott of all people lambasted the Democrats for “Anti-Hispanic” attitudes the other day! http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010725/pl/mexican_trucks_14.html. So I wouldn’t be too surprised if a Republican ticket would have a conservative Latino VP within the next 12 year. Proabably a Cuban American or other non-Mexican, non-Puerto Rican from Florida - who has kept his distance from the “Miami Exile” crowd, yet has conservative credentials. Florida is a must win state, as New York is Democrat, and California has become fairly solidly Democrat (could Condit change that?), and Texas is solidly Republican, and the Democrats hopes there rest entirely with a massive Hispanic turnout.
Such a candidiate would be “minority” enough for the GOP to claim a “big tent”, yet not someone that would make Jesse Helms reach for his musket - someone white-skinned and very fluent in English. The only problem with that is many of the more prominent Hispanic Republican politicians are not American born (since the conservative Latin American influx began after 1959), and thus are ineligible for the highest office. Maybe within 10 years or so. Also, many Mexican American and Puerto Rican voters, as well as many blacks, dislike the Cuban American establishment.
And I do think the Republicans will feel more pressure to have a “minority” candidate than the Democrats. Then it will be the Democrats turn…
I’m part Jewish, part Latino, with a remote dash of Indian blood. If it weren’t for my lack of even a decent sex scandal (im on the 'Dope Friday Night for goshsakes), I’d make a good Democratic candidate. I can do the Clinton ‘empathy face’ really well!
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But this isn’t the case. Lefties often indulge themselves in anti-white racism, and they can be quite vicious about it.
Sorry to pull this up from a few days ago, but I want to correct this. Michael Powell was, in fact, in the millitary (the Army to be precise) until 1988.
From this article on Salon:
LP replied to me: *“If there tends to be more racism on the conservative end of the political spectrum than on the liberal end …”
But this isn’t the case. Lefties often indulge themselves in anti-white racism, and they can be quite vicious about it.*
There may well be some truth to that. But in the first place, that doesn’t tell us whether such “anti-white racism” among leftists is in fact as prevalent as other kinds of racism among conservatives. In the second place, recall that this thread is discussing the possible negative impact of racism on non-white candidates, so “anti-white racism” isn’t really relevant to the issue at hand.
Yikes. Sorry about the mistaken assumption.
I see that Michael Powell was a lieutenant at the time his Army career ended. When we have elected career military officers in the past, they have been generals (Grant, Eisenhower). I still think the younger Powell needs more seasoning in Congress, in the Cabinet, or as a governor before he can be considered serious presidential material.
Guy’s name is Bill Tatum, publisher (emeritus) of the paper. A lot of people thought it was anti-semitic, possibly because the tone of it seemed to play to anti-semitic stereotypes:
YMMV
We’ll probably have at least one minority president before then, but I would keep my eye on George P. Bush–one of Jeb Bush’s “little brown ones”–in about twenty or thirty years. He was an active campaigner in the last election, and is currently attending UT law school.
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