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Blacks And Conservatives

First of all, I'm a man not a woman. So many of you conservatives try to fit people in your liberal stereotypes. I can tell by your comments. Conservatives talk a good game with limited government and "do it on your own" ethos. You guys like your subsidized mortages, FDIC insurance, import/exports banks, subsized road, parks, and infrastructure to support your suburban oasises but then turn around and complain about some low wage woman with 2 kids getting the earn income credit or raising the minimum wage. A government handout is a government handout. That dismisses most of you guys b.s. comments.

Next, Dr. Sowell, I respect the man, most of his economic arguments you can't argue with but my problem is when he goes off about black politics. My particular pet peeve is when he toss out these dismissive statements about the civil rights movement or about the civil right acts like they didn't really matter all the much. Yes, I do understand his point about the civil rights acts are not the be all/end all of black progress in America. What I would like to ask Dr Sowell is this? It those acts don't really matter all that much to black progress then why are the conservative working so hard to remove or weaken those laws everytime they get the chance. Dr. Sowell might not know why but most blacks know why, which why we vote for the Democrats despite agreeing with Republicans on some issues.

The reason is conservatives are basically about people with power, mainly white people. People with power like the do what they want to do and they don't like to answer to anybody. So if I don't like too many minority moving in my neighborhood, going to my kids' school, working in my company, or too many Asias taking make kids spot at the top colleges. People with power can cut that crap out without get sued. That's what they want because people with power always want absolute power. White folks, do this stuff currently. When the neighborhood gets a little to colorfully, they pack up amd move out further to the new less colorful suburbs made easy by those subsized mortages, roads, and parks and new schools. If they don't do it that way they use those green space laws like Dr. Sowell writes about to accomplished the same goal.

Finally, liberals don't have to play on racial division to advance their agenda. Liberals have been winning for 400 years one way or another. It is the conservatives that has always had to play on racial division to hold ground over the last 400 years. Blacks know this better than anybody. It hard to vote for people you know will stoke resentment against you to gain power or hold power. Those people have switch from one party to the other over the years but they tend to call themselves conservatives.

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