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5 Reasons There Are So Few Black Americans In The Republican Party

UTDave Wrote: Sep 07, 2012 6:55 PM

Big myth...big business is affiliated with the GOP. They are affiliated with whatever party is in power. They usually contribute to both parties to hedge their bets so the corporate welfare will keep coming regardless of who wins. For every Haliburton out there loving on the GOP, there is a GE loving on the Dems. That will never change until you get eliminate all corporate welfare and all corporate taxes.

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5 Reasons There Are So Few Black Americans In The Republican Party

How is it that the party of Lincoln, a party that led the way in opposing slavery, Jim Crow laws, lynching, the KKK, poll taxes, led the way on integration and voting rights for black Americans, and percentage wise, voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act in greater numbers than Democrats is now only getting about 10% of the black vote? Democrats say racism, but any objective observer would quickly discard that explanation given the significant number of popular black Republicans. If even a large percentage of Republicans were racist, certainly Allen West, Herman Cain, Clarence...

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