Posted on 03/16/2012 6:19:52 AM PDT by YourAdHere
As the Republican presidential campaign trail ensues, there is something obviously missing from GOP campaign activities and primaries—Black people.
A look at last month’s GOP presidential primaries reveals that older Whites dominated the electorate.
According to an analysis by the National Journal, 89 percent of voters in Arizona were White, while Blacks represented just 1 percent. Meanwhile, Hispanics made up about 8 percent of the vote.
The findings are a stark increase compared to the numbers found in the same state during the 2008 general election. That year, 75 percent of voters were White, while 4 percent were Black and 16 percent were Hispanic.
A similar increase was shown in this year’s Ohio primary. In the Buckeye state, a whopping 96 percent of voters were White, compared to 83 percent in the general election four years ago.
Aside from the primary elections, it is also apparent that Blacks are considerably absent from many GOP campaign activities.
While it is no secret that African Americans have long voted Democrat, the question at hand is whether the GOP is concerned with the obvious racial disconnect.
Michael Steele, former chairman of the Republican National Committee said in a recent interview with writer Kam Williams that there are a couple of things that the party can do to attract more African Americans.
“One is to own up to our own failures as a party, when it comes to making investments in the Black community when it counted, like the Civil Rights Movement,” Steele said during the interview.
He explained that while Republicans had been the architects of landmark civil rights legislation during the Reconstruction Era, the party hesitated when it really mattered in the 1950s and ‘60s, resulting in a longstanding riff between the GOP and Blacks.
Steele added that Republicans should also, “Show up in the community prepared to have meaningful discussions about issues that actually matter to [Blacks] like job creation, in way that makes sense.”
“That’s why my very first official act as Chairman was to host a town hall meeting in Harlem. To me, that was a very important step to take,” he said.
The National Black Republican Association (NBRA) has also continuously worked to close the gap. Their organization aims to return Blacks to their Republican roots and enlighten them on GOP ideals and values.
In the meantime, the AFRO wants to know if you spot more than one Black person at a GOP event. Email your submissions to Blackfolkspotted@afro.com.
The Republican message was lost on the Blacks in the 60’s. Somehow the Dems glossed over Their history with the KKK, Bull Connor and George Wallace.
Would you really reach out to your neighbour, if you were convinced that he hated your guts?
The constituencies that make up the loyal democrat voting block are not moved by the message of liberty and self sufficiency.
When Lyndon Baines Johnson got his "great society {i.e. welfare programs for the unmarried} passed in 1965 he said, "We'll have these niggers voting demonRAT for the next hundred years".
The destruction of the black family and then the entire black vision of the American promise of "life, liberty and the PURSUIT of happiness", in exchange for monthly payments, has been no accident.
There, I think that's all the possible answers ~ but most likely it's because there are no Democrat primaries to show up to.
Bunk
Go have yourself a meaningful discussion with the “BLACK LEADERS” then come back tell us how it works out.
democrats have “reached out” to blacks with higher gas prices, fewer jobs, higher electric bills, and higher minimum wage/no teen jobs etc. Is a black person able to think for himself or is it a 96% “group think”.
Have you seen what happens to ‘black people’ when they do come, campaign or speak out in support of our Constitution? No, not done by white people, done by black people who claim that ‘those’ blacks are ‘white thinking blacks’, not real blacks...
Sheeperals are motivated by “it’s someone else’s fault and I’ll get the bastids for you”.
Bypass the leaders.
I’m not saying that we’d make massive inroads immediately, but any attempt to do so would be better than no attempt to do so.
...also KKK Byrd in west virginia and blacks still voted commie democrat.
The GOP doesn’t need to change to get more black voters, the GOP needs to CHANGE the typical black voter who has been BRAINWASHED into believing their slavemasters in the Dem Party give a zhit about freeing them.
Man up, change the culture, ignore the race-card THEN my black brothers and sisters can share in the American Dream.
I did notice there weren’t many ‘white’ faces at Whitney Houston’s funeral shingdig...
“According to an analysis by the National Journal, 89 percent of voters in Arizona were White, while Blacks represented just 1 percent. Meanwhile, Hispanics made up about 8 percent of the vote.”
Blacks make up only 3% of the population of Arizona.
Seems to me someone needs to look at demographics before writing an article that is not factual.
Hey afro, you forgot to mention the % of black to white population to start with.
Blacks have voted for Democrats since the 1960’s.
How have they benefited?
They must live in paradise with that kind of loyalty!
They wouldn’t vote for democrats in vast majorities if it resulted in poverty violent neighborhoods and crap schools would they?
re: “Show up in the community prepared to have meaningful discussions about issues that actually matter to [Blacks] like job creation, in way that makes sense.”
Oh, because only blacks have job problems? Or should they bring flash cards to explain it to us (due to stupidity)?
Idiot. What happened to Steele? Nevermind.
Fifty years of continuous lying propaganda tends to have that kind of effect on any demographic.
When one isn’t aware of one’s options, you tend to keep doing what you’re doing, even if the consequences of doing so are negative.
I don’t think we need to resort to bribery or anything, just good old fashioned reaching out. Just like Christianity used to do when it was tryinh to convert the pagans.
That’s because they’re all on the democrat plantation. Any time we have a prominent black person speaking out on behalf of conservative ideas, they are demonized and Uncle Tom’d by the democrats.
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