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Why are 95% of blacks members of the Democratic Party, and not the Republican? Is it because the Republicans are not welcoming of them?
Most likely for the same reason this thread is started.. Uneducated Democrats with absolutely positively no facts, repeating bs over and over again, eventually you believe it.
Hey, if you want to continue to support the party that keeps individuals poor, thats your choice, but dont be surprised when others disagree and object to poverty.
Most likely for the same reason this thread is started.. Uneducated Democrats with absolutely positively no facts, repeating bs over and over again, eventually you believe it.
Hey, if you want to continue to support the party that keeps individuals poor, thats your choice, but dont be surprised when others disagree and object to poverty.
My theory is that if Obama was white most blacks would not be supporting him right now.
White democrats and white independents and white republicans that voted for him no longer support him. Only the blacks and the Progressives like this guy.
If he were white and proposing this stuff blacks wouldn't support him. most blacks are not very liberal. They have just been told over and over again that republicans want to suppress them. Eventually, they believe it.
I can understand why blacks like Obama. Just wish the first black president had been more moderate. Obama is killing any future blacks form ever being considered. And any future democrats.
Read this very closely. If you were a black person living in 19th century America, which party would you align yourself with? Then, think about which party blacks continued to align themselves with for the next 100 years. And in 1960 when a jailed Dr. King is convinced by a Democratic presidential candidate to switch parties and put his support behind that candidate in exchange for getting him out of jail, is it any surprise that Democrat is practically the default choice of blacks today?
It is no surprise that most African-Americans are voting Democrat. It is a matter of voting on what is one's best interest, and for the most part, Republicans have not been working in the best interests of African-Americans.
Nixon was trying the Southern strategy to get elected. It was during the Civil Rights movement that the Southern states started voting Republican. Before that, the Democratic party was guaranteed the South. When the Democratic party put forth Civil Rights legislation giving African-Americans(and all persons in general), the right to vote, and trying to get rid of discrimination. That is when the South went from Democrat to Republican. The Republican party was fighting Civil Rights legislation.
Reagan didn't support any of the Civil Rights legislation, deeming it "too much government". Personally, the way I look at it, I need that Civil Rights legislation. If anyone were to try to deny me the right to vote, the legislation would be there to make sure I get the right to vote. Someone who is for less government might say "let the states decide". I don't trust it. Sometimes the federal government needs to keep someone in line to keep crap like that from happen.
One asks about the low presence of African-Americans in the Republican party, one should look to the 1960's and onward.
there are and were black republicans in various elected positions. just because there are none in congress right now doesnt mean that republicans suddenle became racist. one bit of information for you, the first black congressman was a republican.
Wow, someone decided to drag this out from the basement for some reason.
Anyway, a large reason is that so many do not want to put their families through the "Uncle Tom" slurs so prevalent when a minority takes up positions it is expected of them to not hold.
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