@Finn dAbuzz,
Finn dAbuzz wrote:
Blacks shy away from the Republican agenda not because it is diametrically opposed to their interests, but because it has been labeled, for them, O-Fay and uncool.
Wow, you really don't think much of the intelligence of African-Americans, do you?
Yeah, sure, if 90% of blacks vote don't want to vote for the Republicans, it must just mean that they're sheeple who cant make up their own mind and thus meekly accept however the party "has been labeled for them". That they're all shallow souls who decide their vote just on what is "O-Fay" or "cool".
That is some blanket condescension of 90% of blacks as, basically, unthinking and stupid.
As long as Republicans argue that if a group has turned its back on it almost collectively, it must just be because that
group is stupid, rather than because of anything
they did or said, they wont get more than that 10% they're getting now.
As long as Republicans, all while they're accusing the
Dems of racial condescension, speak with such blanket disdain about blacks and their political choices, black voters will recognize all too clearly what they're dealing with.
As long as Republicans automatically assume that if black voters opt against them, it just proves how they are easily manipulated subjects of the Democratic machine, rather than people who believe the Republican party is not right for them for a range of reasons, black voters will recognize which party is really rife with the most racial condescension, and stay with the Dems by default.
The Republican Party has nothing but itself to blame for its singular inability to attract more than a small and decreasing sliver of black voters. Bush deserves credit for breaking the mould when he appointed strong black politicians in prominent positions in his administration. But the party at large and some of its most vocal agitators are marked by racial bigotry. Your sentence here speaks volumes in that respect.
