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To: uncbob
What? Are you saying black Freepers are nonexistent? We are voting and have been voting,Republican - believe it or not!
8 posted on 01/13/2004 5:33:57 AM PST by dagnabit
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To: dagnabit
What? Are you saying black Freepers are nonexistent? We are voting and have been voting,Republican - believe it or not!

You are among the 10% it is the 90% the article and I am referring to
14 posted on 01/13/2004 5:57:01 AM PST by uncbob
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To: dagnabit
So are you voting because the Republicans are "pandering" or are you voting because you believe in individual freedoms and smaller government, (which is what the GOP used to stand for)? I would guess it's the latter. I agree to stop pandering to a voting block that you're never going to get. Let the message out and let the chips fall where they may.
20 posted on 01/13/2004 6:43:17 AM PST by stevio
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To: dagnabit
A lot of people make the mistake of thinking the NAACP represents the entire spectrum of thought for blacks. Most blacks I work with and know are culturally more conservative than the whites I know and work with. However, they're also extremely suspicious. They feel like they've been boxed out, and fear a return to the days of knowing that a lot of jobs had "no blacks welcome" posted out front.

There's also an elitist wing of the Republican party that, if it doesn't dislike blacks, is scared of them. You're not going to get many votes in a district if you won't even show up in the neighborhood. Republicans will never be able to out-liberal the liberals in getting a percentage of the black vote, but I think there are many blacks who would vote Republican if they thought someone cared about their interests. This doesn't mean pushing a "black agenda" of quotas, welfare, and abortions. That plays to a black stereotype that's, if anything, more destructive than the Stepinfetchit characters common in old movies. It does mean acknowledging individuals as real live human beings and not simply demographics.

I think 30% is the breakover number, and I also think that's doable. At 30%, we start seeing black delegates at the conventions, signs in yards, and Rats seeing that the Jessie Jackson/Al Sharpton race-pimping is no longer working.

Here's the message I'd deliver: "Democrats want people broke, in projects and living on welfare because then they'll vote Democrat. We want people wealthy, in their own homes and working a good job because then they'll vote Republican."

21 posted on 01/13/2004 7:24:50 AM PST by Richard Kimball
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