"Like Brother Al says, you four MoFo's that voted for Bush should punish them cracker Republicans, next Fall, for not showing up to our meetings."
Posted on 07/26/2007 4:25:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Civil rights leader Al Sharpton said Thursday black voters should punish Republicans who fail to show for presidential candidates' forums hosted by the National Urban League and the NAACP.
"We can only assume you weren't courting us," Sharpton said. "Republicans have to lay out their policies and court the African-American vote. We need to have our interests debated in the market place."
Sharpton noted there won't be another NAACP or Urban League conference before the presidential primaries.
"When I was in high school, I may not have gone to the prom with the girl I wanted, but with the girl I could get," he said, suggesting Republicans leave black voters little choice but to vote for a Democrat.
Sharpton was among a panel of black leaders, political strategists from both major parties and journalists who discussed the black vote in the 2008 presidential election at the Urban League's national conference here.
Five presidential candidates - four Democrats and one Republican - are scheduled to address the conference Friday. Among them are top-tier Democrats Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, and John Edwards. The lone Republican is Rep. Duncan Hunter of California.
Earlier this month, all eight Democratic candidates participated in a forum at the NAACP meeting in Detroit. The only Republican was Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado, a long-shot candidate.
Shannon Reeves, director of state and local development for the Republican National Committee, said his role in the RNC was to get them to understand the black community.
"There are some in our party who don't want to associate with our community," he said to groans from the crowd. He added that "black folks had to kick the door open. The Democratic Party didn't open it wide and say come on in."
Urban League president Marc Morial said black voters deserve more than "drive-by politics and last-minute appeals to churches." But, he admitted, "sometimes we aren't good about getting out to vote." He said no candidate has talked about black economic development, which is the civil rights organization's major thrust.
he is for the amnesty bill too. taking more jobs away from his supporters. he really doesnt care. wonder what walmart paid him to support their effort to this amnesty bill and the nau.
“When I was in high school, I may not have gone to the prom with the girl I wanted, but with the girl I could get.”
Actually, a better analogy would be:
“When I was in high school, I may not have gone to the prom with the girl I wanted, but with a prostitute instead.”
What a joke , Black voters have been pUnishing Republicans for 50 yrs. What has it got them?
Al Sharpton is the modern-day Uncle Tom for the real slaveholders in the United States today, the Democratic Party.
How can blacks punish the GOP when they never vote for the GOP? Why don’t the punish the Dhimmis, their plantation slave owners?
Over ninety percent of blacks already “punish” the GOP by voting for DemocRATS. How exactly can they “punish” them anymore?
Why should the GOP bother? Didn’t the CBC try to use underhanded methods to steal the 2000 election for Gore?
Hey, if you vote Democrat no matter what, then that’s the only one that will bother with you. And actually, since the Dems know you will back them no matter what they do, they own you and only have to pay lip service to your wants.
So I guess white voters should punish the dummyrats for not appearing n Fox News
Sharpton, what a maroon!!
One thing for Al: Senator Robert Byrd - former KKK member
What are blacks going to do to punish Republicans? Go from voting 87% Democrat to 88%?
While democrats get to make promises they have no intention of keeping, corrupt the inner cities, demoralize children with failing public schools, at least the ones they don't abort, lead black voters into a life of subservience through social programs which cripple entrepeneurship and advancement and generally keep them quiet while feeding them off the public dole, then promise to make "the man" pay "his fair share" to the tax man and collect their votes on election day
So when are the Democrats going to apologize and offer reparations for basically opposing every attempt to free the slaves, for implementing Jim Crow laws, and opposing civil rights, hmmm?
The only person who is more ignorant than Al Sharpton on the Democrats’ role in the oppression and exploitation of black people, is EVERYBODY ELSE in the Democrat Party!
Because we really love playing Lucy and Charlie Brown with you — getting you all to kiss our black asses, just before we pull the ball away and tell everyone to vote for whatever leftist is running.
Washington has enough on it's hands just to cater to the needs of America, Al.
No need to add to the load with Africa too.
I bet he’s going to tell the black community not to vote Republican?? LOTFL
Not ALL black voters support the likes of Al.
"Like Brother Al says, you four MoFo's that voted for Bush should punish them cracker Republicans, next Fall, for not showing up to our meetings."
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