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The OP is the last person who should to be finger-waggling about "vitriol". His entire participation in this thread is vitriolic nonsense. Sounds like someone parroting a parent or Faux New, to me.
Black people don't gravitate towards your party because all you have are stereotypes and 5th grade level "gotchas". The OP and some of the others perpetuating stereotypes here are the problem. Some people really cannot see beyond the end of their own noses, or are simply being dishonest for the sake of argument -- for the millionth time.
You lost the election. Get over it. No amount of disingenuous rhetoric is going to change it.
History Test
BLACK POLITICAL HISTORY:
NOTE: All answers are “B.”
1. What Party was founded as the anti-slavery Party and fought to free blacks from slavery?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party
2. What was the Party of Abraham Lincoln who signed the emancipation proclamation that resulted in the Juneteenth celebrations that occur in black communities today?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party
3. What Party passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting blacks freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party
4. What Party passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting blacks protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations, and was the Party of most blacks prior to the 1960’s, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party
5. What was the Party of the founding fathers of the NAACP who were themselves white?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party
6. What was the Party of President Dwight Eisenhower who sent U.S. troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools, established the Civil Rights Commission in 1958, and appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party
7. What Party, by the greatest percentage, passed the1957 Civil Rights Act and the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960’s?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party
8. What was the Party of President Richard Nixon who instituted the first Affirmative Action program in 1969 with the Philadelphia Plan that established goals and timetables?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party
9. What is the Party of President George W. Bush who supports the U.S. Supreme Court’s University of Michigan Affirmative Action decision, and is spending over $200 billion to fight AIDS in Africa and on programs to help black Americans prosper, including school vouchers, the faith-based initiative, home ownership, and small business ownership?
[ ] a. Democratic Party
[ ] b. Republican Party
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BLACK POLITICAL HISTORY: THE UNTOLD STORY - PART II
NOTE: In the The Black Republican magazine on page 51, all answers are “Republican Party” and on page 52, all answers are “Democratic Party”.
10. What Party fought to keep blacks in slavery and was the Party of the Ku Klux Klan?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party
11. What Party from 1870 to 1930 used fraud, whippings, lynching, murder, intimidation, and mutilation to get the black vote, and passed the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws which legalized racial discrimination and denied blacks their rights as citizens?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party
12. What was the Party of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Harry Truman who rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party
13. What was the Party of President John F. Kennedy who voted against the 1957 Civil Rights law as a Senator, then opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. after becoming president, and later had the FBI (supervised by his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy) investigate Dr. King on suspicion of being a communist?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party
14. What is the Party of current Senator Robert Byrd who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Senator Fritz Hollings who hoisted the Confederate flag over the state capitol in South Carolina when he was the governor, and Senator Ted Kennedy who recently insulted black judicial nominees by calling them “Neanderthals” while blocking their appointments?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party
15. What was the Party of President Bill Clinton who failed to fight the terrorists after the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, sent troops to war in Bosnia and Kosovo without Congressional approval, vetoed the Welfare Reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party
16. What is the Party of Vice President Al Gore whose father voted against the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960’s, and who lost the 2000 election as confirmed by a second recount of Florida votes by the “Miami Herald” and a consortium of major news organizations and the ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission that blacks were not denied the right to vote?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party
17. What Party is against the faith-based initiative, against school vouchers, against school prayers, and takes the black vote for granted without ever acknowledging their racist past or apologizing for trying to expand slavery, lynching blacks and passing the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws that caused great harm to blacks?
[ ] a. Republican Party
[ ] b. Democratic Party
Black people tend to be Democrats for two broad reasons:
1) The median and average income for blacks is WELL below what it is for whites. Republicans tend to do what they can to cut taxes for the rich while cutting social programs for the poor. A fair number of African-Americans depend on those social programs to survive. It is non-sensical for a poor person to vote for a party that doesn't have their best interest at hand.
2) The Republican party doesn't understand non-whites. Between the Paul Shanklin's/Rush Limbaugh's "Barack, the Magic Negro," Republican senators in the South who STILL make it known that they're against interracial marriage, John McCain fighting against making MLK Day a recognized holiday in Arizona, tea partiers using racial slurs, the general "we're not ready for a black president," and "Obama's a Muslim terrorist" rhetoric from many McCain supporters no self-respecting black person would EVER support this party.
You can even see from the response on this thread why African-Americans tend not to be a part of the Republican party. There are PLENTY of middle and upper-class blacks who rely on NO government aid who would never be caught DEAD voting for a Republican of any type.
Non-white Republicans are nothing but Uncle Toms who are completely oblivious to the ignorance of their own party. They're so busy thinking that they're on an equal playing field with the whites in their party that they when, in fact, their own party couldn't care less about them.
Before the Republican party filled up with a bunch of ignorant hyenas (pre 1970), many blacks were actually Republicans.
Who has sent more black people to die in foreign nations in wars :-) democrats
World War I - Woodrow Wilson - Democrat World War II - FDR - Democrat Korean War - Truman - Democrat
Bay of Pigs - Kennedy - Democrat
Vietnam War - LBJ - Democrat!!!!
Grenada - Reagan - Republican - Stopped the cold war, no shots fired and PEACE THRU STRENGTH but promoted PEACE first.
Persian Gulf War - Bush - Republican
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Clinton - Democrat
War on Terror - Bush - Republican
Democrats WIN!!!! They started more wars then Republicans ever did and more people died due to their continued blood and socialism theme.
Which has been continued with the BUSH sr and jr republican who is also a OLD democrat Wilson ideology that we must make the world safe for democracy.
How did the Democrats start WWI, WWII, and the Korean War? The Bay of Pigs was planned almost entirely under Eisenhower, and Kennedy himself called it a major mistake to approve it. The invasion of Grenada was considered a violation of international law by most of the world, and it was not bloodless (123 people died). I'd also like to hear how it ended the cold war.
One more comment: I love how you decided that the unpopular Republicans were really Democrats. That was a real laugh.
Black people tend to be Democrats for two broad reasons:
1) The median and average income for blacks is WELL below what it is for whites. Republicans tend to do what they can to cut taxes for the rich while cutting social programs for the poor. A fair number of African-Americans depend on those social programs to survive. It is non-sensical for a poor person to vote for a party that doesn't have their best interest at hand.
Black poverty has a good deal to do with Blacks having a lower entreprenurship rate. If Blacks are to reduce poverty it will require more Blacks to start and build businesses,creating more jobs for themselves. This sounds more republican and it's this aspect of republican views I agree with. Couldn't more wealthy Blacks be investing in poor Black communities? Why aren't there any Black owned grocery stores and gas stations in most Black areas?
I could never figure out why the Blacks arent angry about all of the illegal people comming into this country and taking from their resources ? That just makes no sense to me.
So you believe that Blacks are turned off to the GOP because the Republican Party is not willing to give them welfare. So in essence according to you, a conservative, Blacks are looking for a party that will give them welfare.
I believe that most blacks are democrats because it benefits them more.
I could never figure out why the Blacks arent angry about all of the illegal people comming into this country and taking from their resources ? That just makes no sense to me.
In my case, it's because I'd be a hypocrite, as my grandfather was illegal.................
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