superunknown23
Superstar
Black republicans today are certified c00nS... Why would you vote for a party that works completely against your interests (when they're not too busy trying to disenfranchise you from voting)?
Putting token black or latino faces out there while spewing birther crap at Obama and "self-deportation for illegal aliens" at latinos won't change anything. It's about the policies, not the messengers.
Today, black folks either have to vote democrat or stay home. We just go with the lesser of evils.
Of course, black people supported the GOP in the old days (it was the party of Emancipation!) The most racist folks in this country were southerners. Republicans were considered liberal northerners, while the South was solidly conservative democrat.
Then things changed dramatically in the 50s and 60s.
Despite the political risks, LBJ pushed for civil rights legislation, angering southern conservatives along the way (dems and dixiecrats).
The result? Them racist southern voters flocked to the desperate GOP, which was in disarray after LBJ won the 1964 election in a landslide over the segregationist Republican Barry Goldwater.
Is it a coincidence that Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Louisiana and other southern states went republican for the first time since Reconstruction in the 1960s and have remained so? In 1964, Mississippi went from solidly democrat to 86% republican after just ONE election cycle! What the fukk happened? You'd think the Civil Rights Act had nothing to do with this sudden switch? The party of the hated Lincoln suddenly became popular among rednecks with confederate flags on their pickups...
The GOP stopped being the party of Lincoln in the 60s and became a Goldwater-Thurmond-Helms-Falwell-Nixon-Duke-Limbaugh-Reagan-Bush-Palin group. Why would any self-respecting black person associate with these bigots?
Do you honestly believe that men like Rockefeller, Everett Dirksen, Ike or even Teddy Roosevelt would still feel at home in the current GOP? This is the party of Jefferson Davis now, not Lincoln.
Also, it's so funny when republicans keep referring to MLK to obliquely criticize black people.
It's amazing how whitewashed MLK's image has become since his assassination. He delivered hundreds of radical speeches but the media always focuses on his most PG-rated one.
He was by far the most hated black man in America when he was alive. Conservatives absolutely DESPISED him when he was alive (especially William Buckley, Falwell, Reagan, Helms, Nixon and others)...They saw him as a dangerous communist, a troublemaker who eventually got what he deserved in 1968 (Reagan even implied that he had it coming).
They were enraged that his funeral was broadcast on all TV stations for 7.5 hours.
But now that he's sanctified (and safely dead) some conservatives even try to claim him
Putting token black or latino faces out there while spewing birther crap at Obama and "self-deportation for illegal aliens" at latinos won't change anything. It's about the policies, not the messengers.
Today, black folks either have to vote democrat or stay home. We just go with the lesser of evils.
Of course, black people supported the GOP in the old days (it was the party of Emancipation!) The most racist folks in this country were southerners. Republicans were considered liberal northerners, while the South was solidly conservative democrat.
Then things changed dramatically in the 50s and 60s.
Despite the political risks, LBJ pushed for civil rights legislation, angering southern conservatives along the way (dems and dixiecrats).
The result? Them racist southern voters flocked to the desperate GOP, which was in disarray after LBJ won the 1964 election in a landslide over the segregationist Republican Barry Goldwater.
Is it a coincidence that Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Louisiana and other southern states went republican for the first time since Reconstruction in the 1960s and have remained so? In 1964, Mississippi went from solidly democrat to 86% republican after just ONE election cycle! What the fukk happened? You'd think the Civil Rights Act had nothing to do with this sudden switch? The party of the hated Lincoln suddenly became popular among rednecks with confederate flags on their pickups...
The GOP stopped being the party of Lincoln in the 60s and became a Goldwater-Thurmond-Helms-Falwell-Nixon-Duke-Limbaugh-Reagan-Bush-Palin group. Why would any self-respecting black person associate with these bigots?
Do you honestly believe that men like Rockefeller, Everett Dirksen, Ike or even Teddy Roosevelt would still feel at home in the current GOP? This is the party of Jefferson Davis now, not Lincoln.
Also, it's so funny when republicans keep referring to MLK to obliquely criticize black people.
It's amazing how whitewashed MLK's image has become since his assassination. He delivered hundreds of radical speeches but the media always focuses on his most PG-rated one.
He was by far the most hated black man in America when he was alive. Conservatives absolutely DESPISED him when he was alive (especially William Buckley, Falwell, Reagan, Helms, Nixon and others)...They saw him as a dangerous communist, a troublemaker who eventually got what he deserved in 1968 (Reagan even implied that he had it coming).
They were enraged that his funeral was broadcast on all TV stations for 7.5 hours.
But now that he's sanctified (and safely dead) some conservatives even try to claim him
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