But your analysis of why they do it seems a bit generous. To me their motivation is purely cynical. They do this simply to try and attract black voters with the image of black conservatives, not by actually pushing policy that helps lower income communities.

I do not buy the white guilt angle. It is simply visual propaganda.

http://www.progressivemovement.net

CLASSIC!

Replace richard nixon with Bill Clinton and remove “resignation”…

How ironic…

I don’t even wanna start with the pickaninny jokes

I bet some of their best friends are black too!

Gawd, wotta putz.

I bet some of their best friends are black too!

Gawd, wotta putz.

Which specific policies do conservative politicians support which tend to benefit people of color, and which specific policies which hurt the interests of people of color do conservative politicians tend to oppose?

A pretty basic question.

You’ll be happy to know that you can go back in time and still vote for the big African American republican quadumverate of Steele, Swann, Blackwell and, of course, Bob Corker.

And oh! That visionary plan for changing America is still there: “learn to speak English dumbasses!”, which will boldly lead to that wonderful Republican vision of the future for Black America: NOT FOUND.

So DONATE money Black voters so the Republicans can lose your future while teaching you to speak English.

To get a further grip on the love Republicans supposedly have for blacks and other minorites please read the following article which documents a wide scale and instituionalized pattern of voter disenfranchisment that is the essence of Republican electoral strategy: also called CHEATING:

Republicans love blacks so much they prevent them from voting in elections

Here’s a little excerpt:

The administration, however, has repeatedly invoked allegations of widespread voter fraud to justify tougher voter ID measures and other steps to restrict access to the ballot, even though research suggests that voter fraud is rare.

“As more information becomes available about the administration’s priority on combating alleged, but not well substantiated, voter fraud, the more apparent it is that its actions concerning voter ID laws are part of a partisan strategy to suppress the votes of poor and minority citizens,” he said.

I’m pretty confident you know too.

Putting him over the top. More comedy from OW.

And for the record, This southern republican is flat out tired of this southern strategy BS that is constantly being pushed. Most of the R’s I know are not racist and many of them have black members of the family. But you keep holding on to the dream.

ROTFLMAO.

Take a look at the map of the Election in 2004: BUSH-GOP Country is every state in the Confederate States of America, plus a couple.

I am pleased Ken Mehlman was drummed out as GOP chair last year. He was one of the few GOP leadeers who got it: Without Blacks and Hispanics in it, more than just the couple hundred thousand Cuban-Americans, the GOP will be relegated to history as the permanent-minority “angry white male” party it has become.

I read more than a few wingnut posts kicking Mehlman for stooping down to beg for Black votes. More power to ‘em.

Embrace the hate, babies. Embrace it. It’s who you are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia,_Mississippi

Pedro, you’re incredibly politically tone-deaf, but even you can hear dog-whistle politics being spoken.

What that tells me is this is about socioeconomic class, not race. I know plenty of “privileged” people who still think Nixon was a great man.

Frank, I’m not talking down to you I’m talking historical fact.

Republicans once had all the black vote because they were the party of emancipation. LBJ signed the civil rights act, alienating the dixiecrats - pro segregation Democrats - who eventually found a home in the Republican party who made a decision to go against civil rights politics and woo the white conservative south. Thus began the southern strategy that Lee Atwater used to help Ronald Reagan get over the top (unless you’re saying all those speeches from Reagan talking welfare moms were digitally manipulated, or the Bush campaign talking about McCain’s “black baby” was a trick of the light!).

This is all backed up in the historical record, and as I said, just open any history book and you’ll see it all. If it’s condescending to quote historical fact, then call me condescending, otherwise quit trying to rewrite history.

Based on your Stalinist rewrite of history, there was no reason for Ken Mehlman, then the RNC Chairman to say this:

“Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization,” Mehlman said at the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. “I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong.”

It is because of people like you and pedro, who want to pretend away this history and prop up people like Angela McGlowan why the Republican party loses so badly among black voters and why the only major party candidate with a legitimate shot at the presidency who happens to be black is a Democrat.

I don’t suffer for it, either personally or politically. I encourage conservatives to embrace the racist roots of their movement because it just makes more liberals. But you are being intellectually dishonest.