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To Appeal to Black Voters, GOP Must Run Gauntlet of Racism Accusations

maverick13 Wrote: Nov 23, 2012 3:43 PM

Let's stop connecting the race issue with blacks. The race issue was stolen a long time ago by white elected Democrats for themselves. Not for the blacks. Sharpton, Jackson and Jealous knows this and has approved of it. Five years from now where will the blacks be. Right where they are now. Ten years from now where will the blacks be. Right where they are now. Fifty years from now where will the blacks be. Right where they are now. Blacks under the white elected Democrats will get as far as the Muslims have gotten as far as moving forward is concerned. One hundred years from now the blacks will be right where they are now. Why? They gave up the race issue to the white elected Democrats for their own reelection, not for the blacks.

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To Appeal to Black Voters, GOP Must Run Gauntlet of Racism Accusations

If the GOP wants to win more black votes, it will need to get a lot more "racist."

The scare quotes are necessary because I don't think the Republican Party is racist now (and, historically, the GOP has a lot less to answer for than the Democratic Party does).

But that hasn't stopped a lot of people from slandering Republicans as racist for one reason or another.

Right now, many in Washington -- particularly the leadership of the Congressional Black Caucus -- insist that Republican attacks on U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice are racist and, yawn, sexist. The basis...

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