New Respect for JT
I have no problem with JT after seeing this.
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Friday, December 15, 2006
The Challenge
A couple of weeks ago I was challenged by Jackie Chiles of the Airing of Grievances blog.
He challenged me to prove that the Republican party does not have the interests of black Americans at heart.
Here is the annual Civil Rights Legislative Report Card for the 109th Congress for the year 2005. This resource is designed to provide NAACP members with insight into the general voting patterns of their congressional representatives (Senators and members of the House of Representatives) over the course of the year. The NAACP Civil Rights Legislative Report Card demonstrates how every Member of Congress voted on the bread and butter civil rights issues important to the NAACP.
You be the judge (make sure to scroll down when you hit the link). You won't be too surprised who gets F's.
Long time ago black Americans supported the Republican party but some where along the line there was a shift. I'll sum it up for you in two words. "Southern strategy"
What was the "Southern Strategy" ?
The phrase, Southern strategy, was coined by Nixon strategist Kevin Phillips. Southern states, were traditionally a stronghold for the Democratic Party became key swing states, providing the popular vote margins in the Presidential elections 1960, 1968 and 1976. During this era, several Republican candidates expressed support for states' rights, which critics have argued was intended as a signal of opposition to federal civil rights legislation for blacks. This strategy was largely a success, and the South is now considered a Republican stronghold in national elections.
I blame Lydon Johnson. Now check out this quote.
Bob Herbert, a New York Times columnist, reported in the October 6, 2005 edition of the New York Times of a 1981 interview with Lee Atwater, published in Southern Politics in the 1990s by Prof. Alexander P. Lamis, in which Lee Atwater discusses politics in the South: You start out in 1954 by saying, "N*gger, n*gger, n*gger." By 1968 you can't say 'nigger'—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.
Also I suggest Jackie read White Nationalism, Black Interests: Conservative Public Policy and the Black Community (African American Life Series) by Ronald W. Walters.
He challenged me to prove that the Republican party does not have the interests of black Americans at heart.
Here is the annual Civil Rights Legislative Report Card for the 109th Congress for the year 2005. This resource is designed to provide NAACP members with insight into the general voting patterns of their congressional representatives (Senators and members of the House of Representatives) over the course of the year. The NAACP Civil Rights Legislative Report Card demonstrates how every Member of Congress voted on the bread and butter civil rights issues important to the NAACP.
You be the judge (make sure to scroll down when you hit the link). You won't be too surprised who gets F's.
Long time ago black Americans supported the Republican party but some where along the line there was a shift. I'll sum it up for you in two words. "Southern strategy"
What was the "Southern Strategy" ?
The phrase, Southern strategy, was coined by Nixon strategist Kevin Phillips. Southern states, were traditionally a stronghold for the Democratic Party became key swing states, providing the popular vote margins in the Presidential elections 1960, 1968 and 1976. During this era, several Republican candidates expressed support for states' rights, which critics have argued was intended as a signal of opposition to federal civil rights legislation for blacks. This strategy was largely a success, and the South is now considered a Republican stronghold in national elections.
I blame Lydon Johnson. Now check out this quote.
Bob Herbert, a New York Times columnist, reported in the October 6, 2005 edition of the New York Times of a 1981 interview with Lee Atwater, published in Southern Politics in the 1990s by Prof. Alexander P. Lamis, in which Lee Atwater discusses politics in the South: You start out in 1954 by saying, "N*gger, n*gger, n*gger." By 1968 you can't say 'nigger'—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.
Deep huh??
So here's my theory. It's very indirect. The Republican party doesn't want to keep the black man down they just want to keep him in his place, which in my opinion is much more dangerous. Black Americans aren't a priority. Honestly where is the money in ending racial profiling?Also I suggest Jackie read White Nationalism, Black Interests: Conservative Public Policy and the Black Community (African American Life Series) by Ronald W. Walters.
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