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Considering the Gillroy switched from the Republican Party to the Democrats in 2007 only to switch back in 2013 won't impress many black voters. Just white Republicans looking for the next black knight du jour.
Just come out and say it already. This guy is now officially an Uncle Tom to you. Hes nothing but a traitor to his race to you and the Left. How dare he not fall in line!
Wise yes. If you listen to his video everything he said is true and wise. Only blacks that would rather game the system and suck off the government would not think what he says is wise. There is no mystery why blacks like the big government giveaway democrats. Personally I think he is joining a sinking ship. He should be a conservative
You're right. And if most of the blacks in the media/hollywood/music industry werent liberal, blacks would be further along as a whole than what they are, I believe. Most of the message from liberal-ville is that you need the government and its the man that is keeping you down, nothing else. The constant focus on race/skin color is disgusting, and its only used for their political agendas.
Maybe black people should listen to what he actually said more often as well, they might not support people like Obama in the mid 90% range in the voting box.
He paints the Repub party to be some sort of freedom loving, small government that it hasn't resembled in over 40 years. It's also disingenuous to say that Dems kept blacks from achieving civil rights knowing full well that those same Dems became Repubs after LBJ signed the civil rights act of 1964 and 1965. The brother merely craves the spotlight of being the newest Uncle Tom in a nearly all-white party.
Just in case you forgot or never knew LBJ decided not to run because his own VP was running against him and was doing quite well. Johnson had decided that he basically was not going to win even though his own pollsters showed him winning a majority of the vote. In Johnson's eyes he got everything he could for the "negros" and still they rioted, looted and destroyed their cities.
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Johnson rattled off his reasons for withdrawing. He was worried about his health. He wanted to spend time with his family. Most important, his political capital was gone. "I've asked Congress for too much for too long, and they're tired of me," he told his lunch companions, according to McPherson, now a partner at a Washington law firm.
With America in flames, Johnson realized that he would do better to focus his efforts on a single piece of legislation, preferably one with few costs attached. He chose the fair- housing bill, which would ban racial discrimination in housing sales and rentals for some 80 percent of the residential market. It was, noted Senator Sam Ervin, a Democrat from North Carolina, the first civil rights bill to challenge discrimination outside the South. For that reason—combined with the national cooling on civil rights since the 1965 Watts riot—it had been stalled for two years.
So don't act like democrats were all for revolutionary change back then. A few, yes, but as soon as they were asked to support "civil rights" in their own communities they were all NIMBY and shat and "so, I have to go over here ad tie my shoes."
And of course let's not forget those democrats who never changed their party affiliation at all like Byrd.
Considering the Gillroy switched from the Republican Party to the Democrats in 2007 only to switch back in 2013 won't impress many black voters. Just white Republicans looking for the next black knight du jour.
If Republicans continue as a 90% white party you're going to accuse them of prima facie racism. If they try to bring blacks on board, you're going to say that it's "white Republicans looking for the next black knight du jour."
Ergo, this is not about race at all. It's just a two-faced means of expressing a dislike for the GOP.
Funny how a black man can only be "wise and honorable" so long as he's a Republican in the eyes of conservative white folks.
And you wonder why blacks reject the Republican Party.
You mean blacks don't like to be told what they need to do to improve their lot in life?
Who knew. Before you know it, many people who feel this way will wake up and realize that most people regardless of their race have a mind of their own. Okay, probably not.
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