This is partially why the Right are still seen as torturers, when they ignorantly use the "big government" argument against blacks:
“I have written about the huge opportunity Black dissatisfaction with Obama presents to the Republican Party. It’s time to speak directly to Black Republicans and GOP congressional leadership about dissatisfaction with the loyal opposition.
Talk of poverty normally conjures up images of Black faces, but the reality is that in raw numbers, there are more Whites in poverty than Blacks. But, as a percentage of the population, the poverty rate of Blacks exceeds that of Whites.
The War on Poverty was a logical program if you believed in big government. Also, to my conservative Republican friends (Black and White), please understand the historic context behind the Black community’s seemingly embrace of big government.
While many conservatives were aggressively embracing Jim Crow, segregation, and racial discrimination, our only ally was the federal government. Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 are but three examples.
So, it’s not so much that Blacks are in love with big government, but without big government, Blacks would still be in slavery, have separate but unequal schools, would not be able to vote, or be able to eat in the restaurants of our choosing. Those are undeniable facts.”
Forget it - if there's one thing that's clear, it's this:
They're historically illiterate.
Or pretending to be,…
That's a pretty good link, thanks -- I think that not only would this help the GOP, but it might help the country if we were to address this.
ReplyDeleteIt puts front and center some of the pros/cons and the fine balance between too much government and not enough (or having the most power centered in local gov't. over federal, that's also a part of this), and how/why both can go very wrong, which is something that would likely help everyone -- if they'd take it up as worthy of discussion.
And it makes a lot of sense, so there's that too.
The big question is: will anyone take up the discussion? I've seen Thomas Sowell tackle it from time to time, and (imhao) sometimes he doesn't appear to want to, or at least isn't completely comfortable with all the history/ramifications behind it.
PW
...hmmm...and it also brings to mind that one of the big issues has been this mindset of "getting their votes"; whatever happened to "making sure people are represented"?
ReplyDeleteAfter all, that's one of the big memes of the Tea Party -- well, there are chunks of our population who have always suffered from a screaming lack of good representation (primarily because it has always been about "getting their votes", and this isn't a new thing! imhao).
Hell, this would mean doing it for everybody, so it isn't really about race...it's about abiding by the spirit of what this country was supposed to be about (that everyone likes to talk about, but nobody really seems to want to do, because it's hard probably).
Well then, go forth and truly represent! (which would mean talking to people, and mostly, listening to them...rather than well, what's going on now).
Again, not holding my breathe.