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Posted on 02/09/2012 4:11:30 AM PST by Kaslin
"Which of our Hispanic leaders would you consider to serve in your Cabinet?" A woman attending the last Republican debate in Florida asked this of the four Republican rivals.
Oh, for crying out loud! Ethnic-based Cabinet appointees? Do we still need to go out and "seek" people of a certain color or religion to show "fairness and inclusion"? What about considering the best people possible -- isn't that the only appropriate answer to that question?
But Republicans go all Democrat, all too often, in front of black and brown audiences. They say things to show how empathic they are, rather than promote their principles as beneficial to all, regardless of race or gender or ethnicity.
Look at the way former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum answered this Cabinet question. Obviously anticipating such a query, they spat out practically every Hispanic name they could think of short of the Frito Bandito.
Only one, libertarian Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, said the right thing. Paul simply said he wanted someone who understands fiscal and monetary policy -- "Hispanic or otherwise." And Paul won't be the nominee.
The perception of Republicans as racist is joyfully promoted by Democrats like Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., who said that Republicans "want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws." Meanwhile, Democrats have successfully airbrushed away their own sordid racist history. This includes the founding of the Ku Klux Klan, which many called "the terrorist wing of the Democratic Party." This includes opposing the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. Yet today, by branding the GOP as the party of the racists, Democrats pull over 90 percent of the black vote in presidential elections.
A Republican elected official once asked me what he could do to improve his poll numbers in the black community. "As a private citizen," the frustrated politician said, "I donated hundreds of thousands of dollars for computers in schools. I make all the rounds at the right places in the inner city." Yet in elections he received little black support.
"I'll give you some advice, but you won't like it," I said.
"Try me."
"OK. Stop condescending. Stop apologizing. You can't out-warmth a Democrat. They're pros at showing minorities how much they 'care' by promising special programs or incentives that either don't work or make things worse.
"Say something like this: 'You are not a victim. Racism, sexism and homophobia are in full retreat in American life. Today, your fate is determined far more by what goes on in your home -- rather than what goes on in city hall.' Make the case that we all want clean streets, safe neighborhoods and competitive schools. Make the case that your agenda -- low taxes, less regulation and choice in schools -- empower individuals, no matter the race, to make their own choices.
"Say: 'I don't wake up saying what black or brown or white or yellow thing I intend to do today. We are Americans before we are members of a racial group or religion or ethnicity. And, if we want our prayers answered, let's get off our knees and work to make them come true."
The politician said, "I can't say that."
In a piece called "California's Demographic Revolution," Heather Mac Donald describes the result of a March 2011 poll on the unfavorable view California Hispanics have toward the Republican Party: "The top two reasons were that the party favored only the rich and that Republicans were selfish and out for themselves; Republican positions on immigration law were cited less often."
How does the GOP turn that around? Simply saying, "No, we're not selfish, we care," won't work. Make the case for choice in school and private accounts for Social Security. Explain how the liberal feel-good polices -- welfare, public housing, urban renewal, assigned government schools, minimum wage laws -- hurt the very groups Democrats claim to help. Argue that it is condescending, if not racist, to believe that certain people cannot compete because of their race.
President John F. Kennedy, in 1963, was asked whether "Negroes" should receive special race-based hiring to compensate for slavery and discrimination: "I think it is a mistake to begin to assign quotas on the basis of religion or race -- color -- nationality. ... On the other hand, I do think that we ought to make an effort to give a fair chance to everyone who is qualified -- not through a quota -- but just look over our employment rolls, look over our areas where we are hiring people and at least make sure we are giving everyone a fair chance. But not hard and fast quotas. ... We are too mixed, this society of ours, to begin to divide ourselves on the basis of race or color."
Kennedy said that 49 years ago. It's what Messrs. Romney, Santorum and Gingrich should say -- right now.
Ethnic minorities would be irrelevant if white women voted Republican. They won’t because they’d have to give up the affirmative-action goodies, and that ain’t going to happen. The Dems have won by aligning white women, blacks, and Hispanics (in that order of representation) against the American way; it has been very successful, and will be as long as they can minimize the in-fighting.
"Which of our Hispanic leaders would you consider to serve in your Cabinet?" A woman attending the last Republican debate in Florida asked this of the four Republican rivals.
(Facepalm Time)
'Lady', you are an ignorant, racist, ass. And I hope you haven't reproduced because your children will be DOOMED. They'll see everything like you -- through Tan shaded glasses.
“Which of our Hispanic leaders would you consider to serve in your Cabinet?” NONE OF THEM, I will only include AMERICANS you racist piece of crap.
It’s the Democrats that have a problem with color. The First Blacks In Congress Were All Republicans. And blacks voted solid Republican until Democrats figured out a way to re-inslave them by making them dependent on Government
United States Senate
Hiram Rhodes Revels (1822-1901); Republican – Mississippi; 1870-1871
Blanche Bruce (1841-1898); Republican – Mississippi; 1875-1881
House of Representatives
John Willis Menard (1838-1893); Republican - Louisiana; 1868
Joseph Rainey (1832-1887); Republican - South Carolina; 1870-1879
Jefferson F. Long (1836-1901); Republican – Georgia; 1870-1871
Robert C. De Large (1842-1874); Republican - South Carolina; 1871-1873
Robert B. Elliott (1842-1884); Republican - South Carolina; 1871-1874
Benjamin S. Turner (1825-1894); Republican – Alabama; 1871-1873
Josiah T. Walls (1842-1905); Republican – Florida; 1871-1873, 1873-1875, 1875-1876
Richard H. Cain (1825-1887); Republican - South Carolina; 1873-1875, 1877-1879
John R. Lynch (1847-1939); Republican – Mississippi; 1873-1877, 1882-1883
James T. Rapier (1837-1883); Republican – Alabama; 1873-1875
Alonzo J. Ransier (1834-1882); Republican - South Carolina; 1873-1875
Jeremiah Haralson (1846-1916); Republican - Alabama; 1875-1877
John Adams Hyman (1840-1891); Republican - North Carolina; 1875-1877
Charles E. Nash (1844-1913); Republican – Louisiana; 1875-1877
Robert Smalls (1839-1915); Republican - South Carolina; 1875-1879, 1882-1883, 1884-1887
James E. O’Hara (1844-1905); Republican - North Carolina; 1883-1887
Henry P. Cheatham (1857-1935); Republican - North Carolina; 1889-1893
John Mercer Langston (1829-1897); Republican – Virginia; 1890-1891
Thomas E. Miller(1849-193); Republican - South Carolina; 1890-1891
George W. Murray (1853-1926); Republican - South Carolina; 1893-1895, 1896-1897
George Henry White (1852-1918); Republican - North Carolina; 1897-1901
The Democrats did not elect their first black American to the U.S. House until 1935, and he was from the North. The Southern Democrats waited until 1973 and for the Senate 1992.
Political Correctness (PC) is the main credo of the Republican (go along to get along) party.
“Can’t we all just get along?” The banner of the GOP.
The party will do anything and everything to appease and racial quotas are one of the most important issues to avoid by simply....what......yes.....going along to get along.
Republicans doing what Republicans do. In turn letting the school yard bullies (leftists) steal their lunch money and beating them up on the playground.
Over the years, it has gotten worse and as time goes on the GOP is running out of issues to cave on.
After so many miles of driving we all change the oil in the car.....hint.....hint.....wonder what I am saying?
A woman attending the last Republican debate in Florida asked this of the four Republican rivals.
10 to 1 odds that the woman was a RAT plant.
Incorrect.
American Blacks avidly support the European Socialist political model.
Most of the Black Republicans served between 1870-1880.
Then the door slammed shut.
Although I lived in the Old South for much of my life, I know almost nothing about the politics of this period.
Can you recommend a couple books or on line articles?
Setting the record straight: American history in Black & White” by David Barton.
It is a facinating and easy read.
Having Southern Democrat roots myself, I find the book is a real eye-opener. Never have I seen so much valuable information gathered in one place about the REAL history of the US and Black America that is not twisted to manipulate the reader. I believe there is a DVD also which I will have to check out. If blacks only knew their history prior Malcom X, they would never vote for a democrat.
And one reason the door was opened to them during the reconstruction period and then slammed again, was because many whites of the south could not vote because they rufused to take the loyalty oath following the war. The Klu Klux Klan was formed to intimidate blacks and even southern whites voting for pro-civil rights Republicans.
Thank you.
Sounds excellent.
After seeing your first post I was very curious about:
(1) The essential policies of the GOP in that era.
(2) The comfort level between Black and white Republicans - at that time, it was probably the most radical political relationship in the history of the world.
(3) What efforts the GOP made to help their new found Black political allies after Southern Democrats began to disenfranchise them.
All that Larry writes is on target and our posters make some good points but there was a period of Republican leadership averting their eyes from the Democrat Party foisting of Jim Crow after the 1890s when the Republican grew tired of the reconstruction era.
I remember comments on that period in the past, perhaps someone with a better knowledge of the period can fill in my memory.
99.99% says you most likely hit the nail square on the head
I remember comments on that period in the past, perhaps someone with a better knowledge of the period can fill in my memory.
I do remember that thread, but can't find it now.
I think it came out about the time that Karl Rove was recommending McKinley as a model to Republicans, and somebody argued that in the McKinley years the GOP cast a blind eye to lynching and segregation. That didn't have much to do with Bush or Rove, but it gave history buffs something to talk about.
By the time McKinley came around, though, the whole country had been looking away for 20 years. It would have been good if veterans of the war remembered what they had fought for, but one person, even a president, couldn't have done very much when the whole country was moving in the opposite direction.
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Look up the term “Radical Republicans”. In the late 1860s the Democrats began calling Republicans “radicals” because the Republican Party was bi-racial and allowed blacks to vote and to participate in the political process, thus making them “radical” in the eyes of the Democrats. Turn on Liberal talk radio today and you will still here them use that term, but history has erased the origin. In southern states the Klan passed out hand-outs showing the faces and names of the “radicals” both black and white in the state legislatures, so members of the Klan could pay them night visits, often ending in dreadful intimidation or murder. One I read about was nailed to his barn alive, then the barn set on fire.
When the 14th Amendment came to a vote, 94 percent of the Republicans in Congress voted for the passage of that civil rights Amendment; however, the records show that not one Democrat voted for the 14th.
There is a lot of great history in David Barton’s book. Do get yourself a copy for your library.
Thanks. Your memory is similar to mine. I guess the issue is that a Party can have a history and heritage of action to advance an issue but if the voters in that party loose interest in promoting that issue, the Party does little but rest on its laurels.
We see Everett Dirksen delivering a percentage of Republican votes that exceeded Democrat vote percentages in the congress for Civil Rights Act substitute he and Mansfield crafted to end the filibuster and craft a compromise that didn’t intrude on business as much as the original and the Democrats claimed the credit.
The act was similar to the 1875 act but did finally give the government some ability to make it actually function and was a legislative compromise that was viewed as legitamently not being to one sided to the balance of issues at the time.
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