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Tim Scott; black conservative republican congressman from................South Carolina
Nikki Haley; Indian American conservative republican female governor from............................South Carolina
Alan West; black conservative republican congressman from.............Florida
Bobby Jindal; Indian American conservative governor from...................Louisiana
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Ah, brilliant. Four elected minority Republicans just has to mean that Republicans are not more disproportionately prejudiced. Funny, how brentwood girl just noted that avowed racists can clearly bring themselves to vote for minorities, yet the argument that will be advance by our right-wingers will now be that because there are a handful of elected, minority Republicans, then Republican voters cannot be prejudiced.
Ah, brilliant. Four elected minority Republicans just has to mean that Republicans are not more disproportionately prejudiced. Funny, how brentwood girl just noted that avowed racists can clearly bring themselves to vote for minorities, yet the argument that will be advance by our right-wingers will now be that because there are a handful of elected, minority Republicans, then Republican voters cannot be prejudiced.
Why would racists who hate black people vote for black people? Answer me that one genius. Btw, that isn't a rhetorical question, I want an answer from you.
No, no one is saying "it's all good" in a situation like that. We see precisely the phenomenon you're referencing in a place like West Virginia, which, if Hillary had been elected in 2008, would almost certainly be leaning Dem at this point.
In all likelihood, you are simply ignorant of what rural life in America entails. I've lived in rural areas my entire life. Rural areas in America are rife with racial prejudice. The people who exhibit this prejudice are usually self-identified "conservatives." Not all, just most. Much of the prejudice is simply due to the fact that these folks never come into contact with folks of other races. Regardless the reason, these type of folks naturally gravitate towards the party that devotes more time to villifying those lazy minorities who are taking their hard-earned money from them or will protect their absolute right to shoot dead the black men who want to get after their white wives and white daughters. If the game here is going to be to contend that there's an equal number of bigots on each side, you will not be persuasive to those not locked in willful ignorance.
This will be a good test of your intellectual honesty: Where would you be more likely to see a racist placard, at a Tea Party rally or an OWS rally? Be honest.
I totally agree with you! There are many open minded, intelligent Republicans, and I was never trying to say that they don't exist! I came from a community like that. But you can't ignore the racial element in the GOP. They're an increasingly large block of the party, while the educated suburban vote in most of the country has moved towards the Democrats.
If you look across the country more Latinos hold elected office as Republicans than Democrats.
Republicans elected more blacks in the 2010 midterms than did Democrats.
Democrats elected former KKK members David Duke and Robert Byrd.
Democrats fought against the repeal of Jim Crow laws and the Civil Rights legislation.
See that. Both sides can play the silly little race game.
When are Democrats gonna stop this race fear mongering crap.
It's old and tiresome. And you gotta be stoopid to believe it.
Democrats had a chance to elect Hillary Clinton president in 2008. Instead, they chose a wealthy, well-conected male. Therefore Democrats are anti-woman. Sound silly? That's what dopey arse liberals jackwagons sound like when they say Republicans vote based on race.
That is a lie. Regarding voter ID laws, do you believe that black people are incapable of getting an ID?
Give me some examples of civil rights legislation aimed at giving blacks more freedoms that the GOP has pushed in the past 40 years.
In answer to your second question, no I do not. I'm actually not opposed to voter ID laws, so long as a comprehensive effort to get everyone an ID is performed prior to enacting these regulations. I believe in the underlying principle. What is simultaneously obvious is that the GOP is pushing these laws to keep blacks and other groups who never vote Republican from voting. You'd have to be either unusually naive or just plain stupid to not have picked that up at some point.
Give me some examples of civil rights legislation aimed at giving blacks more freedoms that the GOP has pushed in the past 40 years.
In answer to your second question, no I do not. I'm actually not opposed to voter ID laws, so long as a comprehensive effort to get everyone an ID is performed prior to enacting these regulations. I believe in the underlying principle. What is simultaneously obvious is that the GOP is pushing these laws to keep blacks and other groups who never vote Republican from voting. You'd have to be either unusually naive or just plain stupid to not have picked that up at some point.
Give me an example of freedoms that blacks don't have. Your post is moronic.
How is requiring an ID racist? Are stores and restaurants that ID for booze racist towards the poor and blacks? You believe that black people are inferior and incapable of getting an id. That is racist.
No, no one is saying "it's all good" in a situation like that. We see precisely the phenomenon you're referencing in a place like West Virginia, which, if Hillary had been elected in 2008, would almost certainly be leaning Dem at this point.
In all likelihood, you are simply ignorant of what rural life in America entails. I've lived in rural areas my entire life. Rural areas in America are rife with racial prejudice. The people who exhibit this prejudice are usually self-identified "conservatives." Not all, just most. Much of the prejudice is simply due to the fact that these folks never come into contact with folks of other races. Regardless the reason, these type of folks naturally gravitate towards the party that devotes more time to villifying those lazy minorities who are taking their hard-earned money from them or will protect their absolute right to shoot dead the black men who want to get after their white wives and white daughters. If the game here is going to be to contend that there's an equal number of bigots on each side, you will not be persuasive to those not locked in willful ignorance.
This will be a good test of your intellectual honesty: Where would you be more likely to see a racist placard, at a Tea Party rally or an OWS rally? Be honest.
So West Virginians are racist?
Well, look who they vote for. Democrats. Manchin, Rockefeller, Byrd. If West Virginians are racist then it's because they are mostly Democrats.
It's very difficult for a Republican to get elected in West Virginia.
West Virginians don't like President Obama because he has said repeatedly he wants to put the coal industry out of business.
Sounds to me like your the one displaying ignorance.
Because ever since the mid-sixties, it has been the Dems who have pushed civil rights legislation. You now have the situation in which Republicans are pushing voter ID laws in a transparent attempt to prevent poor and elderly blacks from voting. It's not exactly a mystery.
That is completely wrong. 19 Senators tried to keep the bill from passing through filibuster. 18 were Democrats and 1 was a Republican. 80+% of the Republicans voted in favor of the bill.
You need to read some history.
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