’)There are 36 black delegates at the Republican convention here — fewer than 2% of the total and a sharp drop-off from 2004, a think tank reports.
The GOP record was set with 6.7% black delegates in 2004.
The Democratic Party, which has targets for minority representation, said a record 24.5% of delegates at its convention last week were black. That’s about twice the percentage of blacks in the U.S. population, according to the Census Bureau.
I can’t imagine why there aren’t more black Republicans. I mean, it’s not like the Republican party actively supports policies that are harmful to blacks and other minorities.
yep it is and my problem is, like the domcrats, they not gone even gtalk about deflation or all these bank failures, had another one today in GA, Dang, That’s makes 10
Thank you for this Oliver. Wow.
I wonder how many of the black con delegates will be mistaken for security guards or waiters by the other delegates.
Jesse Lee Peterson pretends Rush didn’t play the “Barack the magic negro” song and Glenn Beck and Neal Boortz haven’t attacked Katrina victims endlessly the last 3 years
Republicans don’t want to give black people free sh*t and entitlements. That’s why there are not many black delegates.
Most people already know this.
Stupid post.
Or they are racists….and sexist…..won’t vote for women, thats what I hear.
“Republicans don’t want to give black people free sh*t and entitlements.”
But don’t call cons racist for spewing this garbage, that’s playing the race card. When’s your next Klan meeting, j mkkkann?
“I wonder how many of the black con delegates will be mistaken for security guards or waiters by the other delegates.”
Just had a flashback to the Arrested Development episode where Lucille’s backstage at the Hispanic Emmys and gets pissed because there are all these Latino guys in tuxes and nobody will serve her a drink. Now I have to go home and watch Arrested Development tonight. Thanks for the reminder!
I can’t imagine why there aren’t more black Republicans.
Factoid for the morning – of the 93 black congressmen and women in the modern era (post-1929), 90 were Democrats, and the remaining three were Republicans.
Republicans don’t want to give black people free sh*t and entitlements.
Not unless they own a bank or an airline or have a military contract. Those people get their own key to the Treasury.
I can’t imagine why more black conservatives don’t want to go into politics, unless maybe it’s the whole “Oreo” and “Uncle Tom” thing that they know they will be facing from those kind and considerate people on the left side of the aisle.
You know, the ones who think going after the 17-year-old daughter of a candidate is “fair game”.
I have a quibble with the writer of the USA Today article.
Why does this matter? Shouldn’t the correct metric be the percentage of black members of the party? If black membership of the GOP is in the low single digits, and the Democratic Party represents between one-third and one-half of registered voters, then black convention delegates are roughly in proportion to black membership in the party.
And mccann: Black voters are only in the political process for the free goodies? I think you’ve put your finger right on the reason why black voters lean so heavily Democratic.
But not in the way you think you have.
the ones who think going after the 17-year-old daughter of a candidate is “fair game”.
Have you heard the one John McCain told about Chelsea Clinton and Janet Reno when Chelsea was about 13?
Would it change your view of him if you knew that he had told a cruel and completely unnecessary joke about a 13-year old girl’s looks? (He asked whether the listener knew why Chelsea was so ugly.)
Do you consider McCain’s treatment of Chelsea Clinton “fair game,” or is your [faux] outrage limited to Democrats?
Do you consider McCain’s treatment of Chelsea Clinton “fair game,” or is your [faux] outrage limited to Democrats?
So telling an awful joke about the 13 year old daughter of a sitting president is somehow the same as dragging the pregnant 17 year old daughter of a candidate into the public spotlight?
Obama has already said he thinks the daughter should be left alone. McCain personally told the shitty joke himself.
It’s the MSM that’s going to keep this in play all the way through November. No Rovian black-bag squad required. McCain brought this entirely upon himself due to his tendency towards recklessness.
He’s unfit to be president. Simple as that.
Enough of the moral equivalence nonsense already. No one attacked Bristol. They attack her mother for putting her in the limelight. Geez, grow up already.
No one attacked Bristol. They attack her mother for putting her in the limelight. Geez, grow up already.
No one attacked Bristol? Her mother put her in the spotlight? That’s some grade-A bullshit you got there.
How do you explain all those lefty blogs and pundits claiming that Bristol was the real mother of Trig and that Sarah Palin was just covering for her? Which forced Palin to make a public statement about Bristol’s current pregnancy to show that the claims were false.
Enough of the moral equivalence nonsense already.
I agree, because the one that Repack tried was truly pathetic.
Obama has already said he thinks the daughter should be left alone.
Yes, and it took Obama three whole days to get around to saying a word about it. Plenty of time for the rumors to take hold and ooze up to the MSM.
What happened to the vaunted Obama campaign’s quick reaction team that’s monitoring the web to jump on any lies or rumors about Obama? I guess they had more pressing things to do.
Most people don’t read lefty blogs. They read big-city newspapers and watch national nightly news shows.
These sources are going to be talking about Palin’s unwed daughter, her flirtation with secession, and the general weirdness of her background for the next few months. (Military experience defending Alaska from Russian invasion? That was Karl Rove’s freakin’ idea!)
I mean, lefty blogs are just stupid and don’t matter, right? Wasn’t that the Republican talking point last week?
Just admit it. McCain has fucked up big time. Don’t take my word for it, just follow the MSM in the coming weeks. He didn’t vet Palin properly, and now he’s going to pay the price. Granted, he needed to do something bold, but this wasn’t it. Not by a long-shot.
Yes, and it took Obama three whole days to get around to saying a word about it.
Maybe he should have just said, “Have to keep your sense of humor!”
Since Obama isn’t actually involved in the whole Bristol thing, they very probably did.
“Yes, and it took Obama three whole days to get around to saying a word about it.”
Because the most important thing for Barack Obama to do right now is to try and clean up the atrocious mess that McCain has made of his campaign? Huh?
Dude, put down the bottle.
If Obama _had_ said something when the rumors started, you’d say he was fanning the flames of the scandal. He waited a little bit and took the high road (something McCain has forgotten how to do) and said the press should lay off Bristol Palin.
Should Obama write a daily report for McCain as well as to how he should run his campaign? Maybe send them a donation check while he’s at it?
You guys are sad and pathetic. Have fun losing in November.
Most people don’t read lefty blogs. They read big-city newspapers and watch national nightly news shows.
And when Obama made his “lay off” statement, it was in response to questions from mainstream media. As I said, he waited long enough for it to ooze from the lefty blogs to the mainstream media.
He waited a little bit and took the high road
Oh yes, because waiting for a couple of days before asking the lefty blogs that are important and vocal supporters of your campaign to stop with the smears is SO high road.
Should Obama write a daily report for McCain as well as to how he should run his campaign?
No, but when blogs that support him and on which he himself has posted (dKos) are spreading wild rumors like this I think the decent thing to do would be to intervene within a day or so, rather than wait three days and then only say something after he is asked about it by a reporter. It’s not like he issued a press release or anything.
it was in response to questions from mainstream media. As I said, he waited long enough for it to ooze from the lefty blogs to the mainstream media.
And as soon as he was asked the question, he basically told the reporter to STFU.
So what is it you’re thinking he should have done?
I think the decent thing to do would be to intervene within a day or so,
Kindly explain what this would look like.
So what is it you’re thinking he should have done?
How about like back in April when the Texas GOP planned to run an ad linking Obama to Rev. Wright, and before the ad was aired McCain spoke out against it?
How about like back in April when the Texas GOP planned to run an ad linking Obama to Rev. Wright, and before the ad was aired McCain spoke out against it?
That was pretty smoove, wasn’t it?
BTW, how did that turn out? The Texas GOP put that ad on hold right?
And also BTW, whatever happened to that John McCain? Seems like he disappeared and was replaced by a guy who shrugs off Jerome Corsi’s latest hatchet job, hires Tucker Eskew, and claims his opponent would lose a war to win an election.
Classy!
Uh…North Carolina GOP?
“Republicans don’t want to give black people free sh*t and entitlements.”
“But don’t call cons racist for spewing this garbage, that’s playing the race card. When’s your next Klan meeting, j mkkkann?”
And which part of my original statement was inaccurate. It’s true, republicans are against entitlements based on race, and it’s true that blacks largely vote for who promises them the most entitlements.
In your world stating the obvious makes one a racist now?
Duh. You’re a moron.
Somebody’s a weeeee bit sensitive. Hmm….wonder why???
LMAO!
In your world stating the obvious makes one a racist now?
Perfect.
If you think it’s “obvious” that black voters lean Democrat because they’re being bought off, that black voters are less interested in good government than white voters, then yes, you’re a racist.
Jmccann, racist? Nah, he hates all poor people equally. Yes, I know that not all black people are poor. But jmccann doesn’t.
“McCain demanded that Davis that Davis discontinue plans to run the ad.”
*wink, wink*
The ad ran, despite McCain’s “demand”, and so he got to have it both ways.
Some people in SoCal must have a sign tattoed on their foreheads, reading “fool me.”
“If you think it’s “obvious” that black voters lean Democrat because they’re being bought off , that black voters are less interested in good government than white voters, then yes, you’re a racist.”
Democrats = entitlemts for basically everyone but white and (usually) asian men. have been for decades. blacks been voting heavily democrat ever since.
coincidence? i think not.
most people call my observation “common sense,” which i understand in your loopy circles can be defines as racist. Whatever. bla bla bla.
think what you want. doesn’t matter anyways. the racism charge has lost most of it’s sting from being thrown around too liberally anyways.
There are whites who do it too, let’s be honest here. This election is about “what free shit is Obama going to get me??” Health care? Utility assistance? Is he gonna pay my mortgage payment for a while?
But even so, I sleep peacefully knowing that eventually, when people have had enough of their taxes going up that there will just be another Boston Tea party, and we’ll just tell you socialist quacks to shove it. Seriously, universal health care for 310 million people, many more coming, and increasing average age is not sustainable by only taxing the “wealthiest 1%,” or whatever line of crap Bacrock Obama is peddling. That’s not (R) or (D) right there, that’s simple math and common sense.
Why the hell don’t some of you just admit that you’re western-european socialists and get it overwith? And if you do get universal health care passed, what’s next? What can you possibly want the gov’t to control?????
“If you think it’s “obvious” that black voters lean Democrat because they’re being bought off , that black voters are less interested in good government than white voters, then yes, you’re a racist.”
Democrats = entitlemts for basically everyone but white and (usually) asian men. have been for decades. blacks been voting heavily democrat ever since.
coincidence? i think not.
most people call my observation “common sense,” which i understand in your loopy circles can be defines as racist. Whatever. bla bla bla.
think what you want. doesn’t matter anyways. the racism charge has lost most of it’s sting from being thrown around too liberally anyways.
There are whites who do it too, let’s be honest here. This election is about “what free shit is Obama going to get me??” Health care? Utility assistance? Is he gonna pay my mortgage payment for a while?
But even so, I sleep peacefully knowing that eventually, when people have had enough of their taxes going up that there will just be another Boston Tea party, and we’ll just tell you socialist quacks to shove it. Seriously, universal health care for 310 million people, many more coming, and increasing average age is not sustainable by only taxing the “wealthiest 1%,” or whatever line of crap Bacrock Obama is peddling. That’s not (R) or (D) right there, that’s simple math and common sense.
Why the hell don’t some of you just admit that you’re western-european socialists and get it overwith? And if you do get universal health care passed, what’s next? What can you possibly want the gov’t to control?????
As everyone knows, jmccann believes that people’s economic circumstances are the result of “the sum total of the choices they made in their lives.”
The fact that many black people are poor, see, is the result of them choosing to sit around on their lazy black asses and wait for government handouts, right, jmccann? I mean, in jmccann’s world, that’s OBVIOUS, just common sense!
That’s why those lazy black people, who want everything handed to them, vote Democratic. I mean really, what could possibly be considered racist about that? Geez, you bleeding heart pinkos are so stupid.
Right, jmccann?
An Open Letter to Senator John McCain and the Republican National Committee:
September 2, 2008
Dear Senator McCain and Mike Duncan, Chairman, Republican National Committee:
“Dear” is all you will get from me. By now you all should be in Minneapolis for your shindig that you call a “convention.”
I am an African-American, and I cannot hold back my anger any longer. It is a documented fact that the Republican Party before and during the Civil War supported and benefited from slavery. As a matter of fact, the Republican Party was started for the express purpose of defending slavery and holding down black people.
It is also a matter of record that the Ku Klux Klan was started by Republicans after the Civil War to terrorize and murder black and white Democrats in the South. Republicans hated the fact that many ex-slaves were serving in state and federal government. They also hated the fact that everyone of the ex-slaves were all members of the Democratic Party. All the white Democrats, before and after the Civil War, were sympathetic to the cause of abolition of slavery and of civil rights for blacks, therefore racist Republicans had no use for them.
The Republicans historically have been bitter opponents of the following Democratic initiatives:
• The 13th Amendment that abolished slavery in 1865
• The 1866 Civil Rights Act
• The First Reconstruction Act of 1867
• The 14th Amendment in 1868 that made all persons born in the U.S., including former slaves, U.S. citizens.
• The 15th Amendment in 1870 that give every citizen the right to vote
• The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 which was to stop Republican Klansmen to terrorized white and black Democrats
• The 1875 Civil Rights Act
• The 1957 Civil Rights Act
• The 1964 Civil Rights Act
• The 1965 Voters Rights Act
In every case, the white Republicans in the Senate, especially Senator Everett Dirksen, and in the House of Representatives fought passage of these laws in every turn as well as being compelled to give up their slaves after the Civil War. The Democratic leadership, especially Senator Robert Byrd who has always despised the Ku Klux Klan and who discouraged white Americans from joining that gang, fought very hard to have those laws passed. Democratic Senator Al Gore Sr., not only voted for the Civil Rights Act in 1964, but he, along side of Senator Byrd, fought a 74-day filibuster by Republicans to defeat the legislation. The Congressional Quarterly of June 26, 1964 recorded that, in the Senate, only 69% of Republicans (46 for, 21 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act as compared to 82% of Democrats (27 for, 6 against) the Civil Rights Act. In the House of Representatives, 61% of Republicans (152 for, 96 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act and. 80% of Democrats, (138 for, 34 against) voted for it.
The Republicans have also opposed every Democratic anti-lynching bill to their shame. The Democrats have always been opposed to lynchings for decades.
For these reason, we black people deserve an apology from the Republican Party for the following:
• support of slavery, on record in their platforms
• support of the Dred Scott decision
• support of segregation and Jim Crow prejudice
• opposition to anti-lynching laws
• attempts to destroy black schools and colleges, and the burning of black churches
• efforts to defeat the Reparation Bill of 1866
• efforts to defeat every piece of Civil Rights legislation from 1863 to 1964
• efforts to have the 1875 Civil Rights Act declared unconstitutional
• support of the Ku Klux Klan, composed of entirely Republicans, and its vile and violent racist agenda:
• Republican participation in the lynchings of thousands of blacks.
History will also show the following:
• Eugene “Bull” Conner (the poster boy of American racism) was a Republican.
• The poll tax was a Republican institution.
• Black codes and Jim Crow laws were instituted by Republicans.
Africans Americans are even due reparations from the Republican Party since it supported and benefited from slavery as well as supporting KKK terror, racism, etc. The Civil Rights movement started because of the majority white racist Republican power structure in the South.
My conclusion is that if this nation was left to the devices of the Republican Party, African Americans would not be anywhere near where we are today. As a matter of fact I would argue that we African Americans would not have any constitutional rights, be U.S. citizens or otherwise because we would still be slaves!
The Democratic Party, of course, has had its problems racially here and there, unfortunately, but it does not have the consistent racist legacy for decades and decades, stretching back to the early 1800’s as the Republican Party has had. The Democratic Party, in general, has always been supportive of and open and honest with African Americans throughout its history.
It is time for the Republican Party to come clean, tell the truth, and settle the debt.
Sincerely,
Brother X