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To: IronJack
This and the two paragraphs after it are a precise summary of the conservative stance on racial representation. It's always been a puzzle to me how blacks could support the party that has kept them enslaved long after they were emancipated. Apparently at least ONE black intellectual is waking up to a new day.

Okay. But what are conservatives going to do to go after these voters? The Right does not have a good record on taking its message to black people. Growing up, I never saw anyone but a RAT come through the 'hood during election time.

That must change.

20 posted on 08/31/2002 7:13:43 AM PDT by rdb3
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To: rdb3
But what are conservatives going to do to go after these voters?

Present the same message we present to ALL voters: that government is not the solution; government is the problem. That we'll spend millions for opportunity, but not one dime for soul-robbing entitlements. That morality is the key to enfranchisement in the American Experiment, not dependency. And that blacks can join the mainstream any time they want to, with the full backing and support of the Right, as long as no preferences are given.

The Right does not have a good record on taking its message to black people.

The Right's message is swallowed up in the wail from the hard Left and its largesse-spewing pimps. It's not easy to sell the idea of personal accountability in the 'hood after the Democrats have spent half a century nurturing a culture of dependency. With the media painting any Right-leaning proposals as abject racism, and with many influential black parasites approving that characterization, the Right has a Herculean task before it. The 'hood is a hostile place to the Right.

Growing up, I never saw anyone but a RAT come through the 'hood during election time.

Yet you managed to find the True Way. The information is out there; the message is sent. I agree we have to do a better job of pushing it, but we can't preach to deaf ears. And I don't know sign language.

32 posted on 08/31/2002 7:52:02 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: rdb3
"Growing up, I never saw anyone but a RAT come through the 'hood during election time.

That must change."

One of our local chapter FReepers compiles trivia questions and approaches individuals and groups in different settings with questions to get them thinking and realizing that they really don't know all that much about the issues and who stands for what, or they think they do when the opposite is true. She's been able to fire up a fair number of people that way. Amazing how much people don't even think about unless it is brought to their attention.

83 posted on 08/31/2002 9:30:12 AM PDT by sweetliberty
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