What have they done to attract Black voters in the last 35 years? Be specific.
What Do Black Folk Owe The Republican Party?
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The converse would be a more appropriate question.
So what do Republicans owe black folks?
My point! They don't consider our vote, then stfu about Blacks voting democratic.
There seems to be several Black preachers endorsing republicans, you know at least they are getting something from the GOP.
There seems to be several Black preachers endorsing republicans, you know at least they are getting something from the GOP.
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I see you still a party man. I am still on the issues.
Ok I'll take this lame ass bait..
To be honest, no one deserves anything...
How about looking at the issues, and vote accordingly.
Personally, I voted republican because they stood for the values I hold as an independent black man, a christian, and as an American that cares about the future of this country. That's my opinion.
You can try to spin this anyway you want, but the fact remains, our community is hurting because there's not enough balance when it comes to politics. This is what trips me out about when people like YOU *thoughtone* who questions my loyalty towards our race. You keep saying things like:
Why black republicans *notice I call myself conservative* don't like black women in the SOL Random Thread. I love how you label a whole group like that. Let a white person label every black democrat as lazy, disrespectful, unmotivated, whiny bitches. You will call him every name in the book.
In fact, I'll ask you this. Why are you a Democrat? Why do you support Democrats?
Answer that, and I got some more questions I need to ask you. *prepares for 5 more pages*
To be honest, no one deserves anything...
How about looking at the issues, and vote accordingly.
Personally, I voted republican because they stood for the values I hold as an independent black man, a christian, and as an American that cares about the future of this country. That's my opinion.
You can try to spin this anyway you want, but the fact remains, our community is hurting because there's not enough balance when it comes to politics. This is what trips me out about when people like YOU *thoughtone* who questions my loyalty towards our race. You keep saying things like:
Why black republicans *notice I call myself conservative* don't like black women in the SOL Random Thread. I love how you label a whole group like that. Let a white person label every black democrat as lazy, disrespectful, unmotivated, whiny bitches. You will call him every name in the book.
In fact, I'll ask you this. Why are you a Democrat? Why do you support Democrats?
Answer that, and I got some more questions I need to ask you. *prepares for 5 more pages*
source: TMP
Steele: African-Americans 'Really Don't Have A Reason' To Vote GOP
Appearing Tuesday at DePaul University in Chicago, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said that the Republican Party has not given African-Americans a reason to vote for them.
"You really don't have a reason to, to be honest -- we haven't done a very good job of really giving you one. True? True," said Steele, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
Steele said how the Republican party had been founded as a pro-civil rights party, with Frederick Douglass among its early members. However, Steele explained, the Republican Party has alienated those voters: "For the last 40-plus years we had a 'Southern Strategy' that alienated many minority voters by focusing on the white male vote in the South. Well, guess what happened in 1992, folks, 'Bubba' went back home to the Democratic Party and voted for Bill Clinton."
Steele: African-Americans 'Really Don't Have A Reason' To Vote GOP
Appearing Tuesday at DePaul University in Chicago, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said that the Republican Party has not given African-Americans a reason to vote for them.
"You really don't have a reason to, to be honest -- we haven't done a very good job of really giving you one. True? True," said Steele, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
Steele said how the Republican party had been founded as a pro-civil rights party, with Frederick Douglass among its early members. However, Steele explained, the Republican Party has alienated those voters: "For the last 40-plus years we had a 'Southern Strategy' that alienated many minority voters by focusing on the white male vote in the South. Well, guess what happened in 1992, folks, 'Bubba' went back home to the Democratic Party and voted for Bill Clinton."
Sharpton vs. Republican on "Fairness"
Sharpton vs. Republican on "Fairness"
Sharpton vs. Republican on "Fairness"
source: Mediaite
Senator Tim Scott Turned Down Invitation to 50th Anniversary of MLK Event
One of the controversies surrounding the 50th anniversary celebration of the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King‘s “I Have A Dream” speech has been the absence of Republicans at the event, despite many of them having been invited. One prominent Republican, Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), told Roll Call through a spokesperson that he had not been invited, but the paper reported, Thursday afternoon, that an email confirms that Sen. Scott’s office declined an invitation to the event earlier this month.
On Wednesday, Roll Call reported on the status of invitations to Republican leaders like Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor, but had this to report about Sen. Tim Scott:
Senator Tim Scott Turned Down Invitation to 50th Anniversary of MLK Event
One of the controversies surrounding the 50th anniversary celebration of the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King‘s “I Have A Dream” speech has been the absence of Republicans at the event, despite many of them having been invited. One prominent Republican, Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), told Roll Call through a spokesperson that he had not been invited, but the paper reported, Thursday afternoon, that an email confirms that Sen. Scott’s office declined an invitation to the event earlier this month.
On Wednesday, Roll Call reported on the status of invitations to Republican leaders like Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor, but had this to report about Sen. Tim Scott:
While Cantor and Boehner were among the Republicans who were invited, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., the only African-American in the Senate, was not invited, his office told CQ Roll Call.
A snub of Sen. Scott would seem particularly egregious, given his status as the only African American currently serving in the U.S. Senate. As it turns out, though, Scott wasn’t snubbed. Roll Call reports today:
The Senate’s only black lawmaker wasn’t invited to speak at Wednesday’s 50th anniversary March on Washington, because Tim Scott’s office declined an invitation to attend the ceremony as a spectator, according to a source connected to the event.
“Much of the speaking program was created based on those who were able to confirm availability to attend the event, and thus were able to speak at the event,” the source explained.
And based on an email exchange obtained by CQ Roll Call, the South Carolina Republican did receive an invitation to attend the festivities commemorating Martin Luther King Jr.’s delivery of the famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
The invitation, sent Aug. 8 from the Coalition for the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, appears to have been a form letter to all members of Congress, with invitees listed as “Representative” rather than by name.
Within a day, Rachel Shelbourne, a staff assistant to Scott, had replied to the email with the following message:
“Much of the speaking program was created based on those who were able to confirm availability to attend the event, and thus were able to speak at the event,” the source explained.
And based on an email exchange obtained by CQ Roll Call, the South Carolina Republican did receive an invitation to attend the festivities commemorating Martin Luther King Jr.’s delivery of the famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
The invitation, sent Aug. 8 from the Coalition for the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, appears to have been a form letter to all members of Congress, with invitees listed as “Representative” rather than by name.
Within a day, Rachel Shelbourne, a staff assistant to Scott, had replied to the email with the following message:
“Thank you for extending to Senator Tim Scott the invitation to the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington on August 28th. Unfortunately, the Senator will be in South Carolina during this time, so he will be unable to attend the event. Please do, however, keep him in mind for future events you may be hosting.”
Thought, why are you a democrat?
You call my position senseless, yet, you support a party mostly. You're no different than me, or any other person who supports a political belief.
The mistake you make is that you think I support a party just because. I support the beliefs one party suppose to be about. If they do not act on those beliefs, I do not vote for them.
If the republicans took up positions like the democrats, and push a leftward agenda, I wouldn't vote for them.
Voter Identification
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“The law is going to kick the Democrats in the butt,” Yelton
said. “If it hurts a bunch of college kids [that are] too lazy
to get up off their bohonkas and go get a photo ID, so be it.
If it hurts a bunch of whites, so be it.”
“If it hurts a bunch of lazy blacks that want the government
to give them everything,
so be it,”
“I’ve been called a bigot before,” Yelton said. “[And]
as a matter of fact, one of my best friends is black.”
Yelton stood by his comments on Thursday: “The comments
that were made, that I said, I stand behind them. I believe
them,” he told Mountain Xpress, a local alternative paper.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/...igns-after-interview-98822.html#ixzz2im4hp2Jj
source: Think Progress
Paul Ryan Blames Poverty On Lazy ‘Inner City’ Men
House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) previewed his upcoming legislative proposals for reforming America’s poverty programs during an appearance on Bill Bennett’s Morning in America Wednesday, hinting that he would focus on creating work requirements for men “in our inner cities” and dealing with the “real culture problem” in these communities. “We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work, and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with,” he said.
Ryan also cited Charles Murray, a conservative social scientist who believes African-Americans are, as a population, less intelligent than whites due to genetic differences and that poverty remains a national problem because “a lot of poor people are born lazy.”
Ryan’s comments come a week after he released a 204-page report analyzing the effectiveness of the nation’s anti-poverty programs 50 years after President Lyndon Johnson declared a national War on Poverty. The former GOP vice presidential candidate, who argues that federal anti-poverty programs have contributed to the nation’s high poverty rate and “created what’s known as the poverty trap,” is expected to offer reforms to the programs in his upcoming FY 2015 budget.
“[W]e want people to reach their potential and so the dignity of work is very valuable and important and we have to re-emphasize work and reform our welfare programs, like we did in 1996,” Ryan told Bennett.
Listen:
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Numerous anti-poverty initiatives already include work requirements, particularly long-term unemployment insurance and the Earned Income Tax Credit. Other programs, such as Head Start, allow parents to go to work while their children attend education programs.
Work requirements have yet to significantly reduce poverty, particularly during a downturn economy. While Ryan touts the success of lowering the number of people on welfare after 1996, poverty has actually increased since the recession and the number of families whose incomes are below half the poverty line (less than $12,000 a year for a family of four) is actually higher now than it was when Congress and President Bill Clinton enacted welfare reform. Welfare’s rigid work requirements improved employment among single mothers initially, but those rates started to decline by 2001, once the economy went into recession. The work provisions also pressure some women to abandon the higher education that could lead to upward mobility in favor of lower-paying jobs that meet the law’s standards.
But Ryan is prepared to double down on the welfare reforms of the mid-90s. “When you question this war on poverty, you get all the criticisms from adherents to the status quo who just don’t want to see anything change,” Ryan said. “We got to have the courage to face that down, just as we did in the welfare reform of the late 1990s and if we succeeded we can help resuscitate this culture and get people back to work.”
Paul Ryan Blames Poverty On Lazy ‘Inner City’ Men
House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) previewed his upcoming legislative proposals for reforming America’s poverty programs during an appearance on Bill Bennett’s Morning in America Wednesday, hinting that he would focus on creating work requirements for men “in our inner cities” and dealing with the “real culture problem” in these communities. “We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work, and so there is a real culture problem here that has to be dealt with,” he said.
Ryan also cited Charles Murray, a conservative social scientist who believes African-Americans are, as a population, less intelligent than whites due to genetic differences and that poverty remains a national problem because “a lot of poor people are born lazy.”
Ryan’s comments come a week after he released a 204-page report analyzing the effectiveness of the nation’s anti-poverty programs 50 years after President Lyndon Johnson declared a national War on Poverty. The former GOP vice presidential candidate, who argues that federal anti-poverty programs have contributed to the nation’s high poverty rate and “created what’s known as the poverty trap,” is expected to offer reforms to the programs in his upcoming FY 2015 budget.
“[W]e want people to reach their potential and so the dignity of work is very valuable and important and we have to re-emphasize work and reform our welfare programs, like we did in 1996,” Ryan told Bennett.
Listen:
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Numerous anti-poverty initiatives already include work requirements, particularly long-term unemployment insurance and the Earned Income Tax Credit. Other programs, such as Head Start, allow parents to go to work while their children attend education programs.
Work requirements have yet to significantly reduce poverty, particularly during a downturn economy. While Ryan touts the success of lowering the number of people on welfare after 1996, poverty has actually increased since the recession and the number of families whose incomes are below half the poverty line (less than $12,000 a year for a family of four) is actually higher now than it was when Congress and President Bill Clinton enacted welfare reform. Welfare’s rigid work requirements improved employment among single mothers initially, but those rates started to decline by 2001, once the economy went into recession. The work provisions also pressure some women to abandon the higher education that could lead to upward mobility in favor of lower-paying jobs that meet the law’s standards.
But Ryan is prepared to double down on the welfare reforms of the mid-90s. “When you question this war on poverty, you get all the criticisms from adherents to the status quo who just don’t want to see anything change,” Ryan said. “We got to have the courage to face that down, just as we did in the welfare reform of the late 1990s and if we succeeded we can help resuscitate this culture and get people back to work.”
Ebony magazine apologizes to RNC for
editor's tweets about black Republicans
McClatchy
by William Douglas
March 28, 2014
Ebony magazine apologized to the Republican National Committee Friday for disparaging tweets about an RNC staffer and African-American Republicans by one of its senior editors.
On its website, the venerable African-American-oriented publication apologized for heated tweets written by Ebony com senior editor Jamilah Lemieux on her personal Twitter account about Raffi Williams, an RNC press secretary, and other African-American Republicans.
'EBONY acknowledges Senior Editor Jamilah Lemieux's lack of judgment on her personal Twitter account and apologizes to Raffi Williams and the Black Republican community,' the post on the website said.
The Twitter incident started when Lemieux criticized plans by The Washington Times and Ben Carson, an African-American conservative, to start a publication aimed at black conservatives.
Williams responded to the tweet, saying 'hoped you would encourage diversity of thought.'
Lemieux tweeted back 'Oh great, here comes a White dude telling me how to do this Black thing. Pass.'
Lemieux tweeted back 'Oh great, here comes a White dude telling me how to do this Black thing. Pass.'
Williams, the son of Fox News analyst Juan Williams, is African-American. After becoming aware of Williams's race. Lemieux later tweeted: "I don't care what race you are. I don't know why you GOP folks troll on here.'
EBONY:[/b]That was too much for officials at Ebony. 'EBONY strongly believes in the marketplace of ideas,' the publication said in its statement. 'As the magazine of record for the African American community, Lemieux's tweets in question do not represent our journalistic standard, tradition or practice of celebrating diverse black thought.'
RNC Chair Rance Priebus who's been courting African-American voters, wrote a letter to Ebony demanding an apology. The RNC, is a press release, said it appreciates Ebony's response and that Williams accepted the publication's apology.
'Despite the actions of one editor, we're glad to see EBONY embracing a higher standard of journalistic integrity,' the RNC statement said.
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/03/...logizes-to-rnc.html?sp=/99/104/#storylink=cpy
What was the apology for?
That was one time EBONY should have stood by their editor.
That was one time EBONY should have stood by their editor.
GOP aka "Radicalized" Christians
-VG
. . . the Middle East has its; and the West, in this case the U.S., has its . . .radicalized nuts . . .
radicalized nuts . . .
'Zackly. If you look at the Sharia law they are passing into law in the states aka, Religious Freedom, this is NO DIFFERENT in what they love to point out from those in the middle east. These Radicalized Christians just hung a brother in Texas. Isis cut off a journalists head in the name of Islam. Same shit, different map.
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