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Originally Posted by Pete
Maybe there would be more black conservatives if the NAA(Liberal)CP and the liberal black community didn't hammer them so hard.
You usually don't lump all people of one group into the same pile.
Is what black Americans want all that much different from other Americans want?
How much of the black middle class is invested in government jobs? I'm talking Post Office, Schools, City, County, State, Federal - et al and everything?
Is their voting D more because the D's promise to keep their jobs safe? Can it be that the blacks getting the EITC and max welfare benefits (as well as a shit pot load of whites) vote D because the D's promise to keep the gravy train rolling?
Years down the road when the train rolls over them they are going to be wondering just who's train it was that hit them - and blame Bush of course.
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IME, blacks across the political spectrum will talk about the lives they're living and would like to live. Some will vent against the rampant douche baggery that influences all sorts of young people--regardless of race, class, gender, and cultural background. Some will express preferences for policies that fall into the wheelhouse of right of center political ideology.
At times, the discussion will then turn to what were the bad old days for some and the good old days for others. Because some conservatives often broadly paint the sixties as the latter and speak about "states' rights," the talk will go from being cautiously optimistic to guardedly cynical.
We who sit on the right side of the issues have very little control over how liberals think, act, talk, and walk. We have considerably more control over how we respond to this shrinking window of opportunity.
This past summer was brutal for many blacks living in Chicago. What might have happened--what might happen--if rather than chortling about memes of the Second City as a symbol of everything that's wrong about the Democratic Party, the president and his policies, and their constituents, the Republican Party and others had changed the tenor of the conversation to respectfully phrased questions. Does American liberalism work for citizens living in cities like Chicago? If existing gun control make you safer, then why all the shootings? Might you be better off if you owned a weapon and knew how to use it? And, have the president, the mayor of your fair city, and the Democratic Party more generally delivered?
A comment about the continuing allegation that many blacks vote for Democratic candidates because of the "gravy train." If this generalization is accurate, how is that behavior any different than that of any other demographic cohort? That is, who in America doesn't make political choices that do not serve his/her best interests as he/she perceives them? Rather than castigating blacks for doing what many other Americans do and then writing them off, how about making better, more persuasive arguments about how the GOP's policy preferences will benefit them?