Irrelevant question to the black community...they don’t care...all they want is handouts, coddling, and “social justice.”
Not too sure it will work. Unfortunately blood is often thicker than reason and logic. But I am encouraged by the large number of high quality blacks running for Congress this years as Republicans.
Top 10 : Poverty in Our Major Cities
City, State, % of People Below the Poverty Level
1. Detroit , MI
32.5%
2. Buffalo , NY
29.9%
3. Cincinnati , OH
27.8%
4. Cleveland , OH
27.0%
5. Miami , FL
26.9%
5. St. Louis , MO
26.8%
7. El Paso , TX
26.4%
8. Milwaukee , WI
26.2%
9. Philadelph ia , PA
25.1%
10. Newark , NJ
24.2%
U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 American Community Survey, August 2007
What do the top ten cities (over 250,000) with the highest poverty rate all have in common?
Detroit , MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1961;
Buffalo , NY (2nd) hasn’t elected one since 1954;
Cincinnati , OH (3rd)....since 1984;
Cleveland , OH (4th)...since 1989;
Miami , FL (5th) has never had a Republican mayor;
St. Louis , MO (6th)....since 1949;
El Paso , TX (7th) has never had a Republican mayor;
Milwaukee , WI (8th)..since 1908;
Philadelphia , PA (9th)...since 1952;
Newark , NJ (10th)....since 1907.
Einstein once said, ‘The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.’
It is the poor who habitually elect Democrats-—yet they are still .....................
POOR
“You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”
Abraham Lincoln
You make a good point, what have the Republicans to loose by challenging the black voters on their beliefs and voting habits?
One of my life lessons is that politicians treat most people like children. The paternalism (in both parties) is stunning.
Big City Governments are almost 100% Democrat and have been responsible for a decline over many years in their cities, the quality of life and the schools where large black populations live. yet, year in and year out these same incompetents are returned to office. It doesn’t seem to matter that they continue to be worse off under Democrat Government. Since Obama took office, Black Unemployment has gone up by almost 50%, but as a voting block they support him with 90%-95%. Could that possibly be construed as Racist? Without that Black support, Obama’s approval rating would be in the mid-low thirties.
Unfortunately, I think many of the inner-city communities may know which party’s policies caused the blight, but so long as they allow their “leaders” to tell them how to vote it’s going to continue.
I disagree. Don’t appeal to their color. Appeal to their conservatism.
The race game is a loser.
If they can’t be swayed by a conservative message then they can’t be converted.
Leave the race baiting to the Just Us brothers.
I’ve had a lot of black friends in my time. One older lady in particular I worked with in the early 1990s decried the degradation of our culture, welfare dependency, the “gay rights” push, the explosion of crack use in the inner cities, high taxes and crime.
Yet, she voted straight Dem in 1992.
When I asked her what was it that motivated her to do that since their policies had created the conditions she complained about. Her answer: “We blacks just vote that way... it’s what we always do.”
“Republicans need to man up....”
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Aren’t you asking too much of the Gutless Old Party?
" Massa will take care of you all".
The fact is between 1865 and 1932 Blacks votes almost exclusively Republican because Republicans were the abolitionist party.
Then FDR and LBJ gave Blacks all the welfare goodies and put them on the gravy train to poverty and desperation.
Funny, for 400 years, Black folks had no welfare, and despite all the misery, racism and discrimination, still survived.
Then the Democrats gave them welfare and handouts and put them right back on the Democratic slave plantation. Being dependent on the government for survival is no different from slavery. We learned this from the Soviet Union, North Korea and China.
On the capitalist side, it didn’t help to have open borders and free trade policies that basically destroyed many industrial urban centers in the United States. But free trade and open borders probably wouldn’t have happened if the trade unions and Democratic politicians didn’t tax and regulate corporations to death to fund their corruption.