Jackie Robinson & TMR Saw Eye-To-Eye On The GOP

Whites, today, try to act like being a Race Man is a new thing, when it's really the only stance a black man in America can take. What's also not new is how rigidly stubborn, and stuck-on-stupid, Republicans are:

"I was not as sold on the Republican party,...Every chance I got, while I was campaigning, I said plainly what I thought of the right-wing Republicans and the harm they were doing.  I felt the GOP was a minority party in term of numbers of registered voters and could not win unless they updated their social philosophy and sponsored candidates and principles to attract the young, the black, and the independent voter.  I said this often from public, and frequently Republican, platforms.  By and large Republicans had ignored blacks and sometimes handpicked a few servile leaders in the black community to be their token "niggers".  How would I sound trying to go all out to sell Republicans to black people?  They're not buying.  They know better.

I think, live, and breathe black first and foremost,…"

Some things will never change,...

Repeated Racial Betrayals Have Doomed Republicans

The NYT has published a Michael "Spock" Beschloss history lesson.

"Hi, black American, trying to make the country great - I'm the white guy out to screw you!"

This time, it's about Jackie Robinson's sad, wannabe-friendship with Richard Nixon, which Spock uses to explain why blacks haven't voted with Republicans since LBJ - white racism:

Although Presidents Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson championed what became the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Robinson quit his executive job at Chock Full o’Nuts that spring to campaign for Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, a Republican, explaining that “we must work for a two-party system, as far as the Negro is concerned.”

But Republicans nominated Barry Goldwater, who opposed the 1964 legislation as unconstitutional. When Rockefeller denounced political extremism at the party’s San Francisco convention, Robinson, a “special delegate,” shouted, “C’mon, Rocky!” As Robinson recalled, an Alabama delegate “turned on me menacingly” before “his wife grabbed his arm and turned him back.”

Spoiling for a fight, Jackie cried, “Turn him loose, lady, turn him loose!” He later wrote with uncharacteristic overstatement that on leaving San Francisco, “I had a better understanding of how it must have felt to be a Jew in Hitler’s Germany.”

That fall, Robinson joined the 94 percent of the African-American electorate that backed President Johnson. (Since then, the percentage of the black vote for Democratic presidential nominees has never dipped below the low 80s.) In 1968, furious over Nixon’s courtship of Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who had once led the segregationist “Dixiecrats,” Jackie backed the Democratic nominee, Hubert Humphrey,… 

He'd always tried to be friends, and whites seemed to like him - once he was dead.

It was the nomination of Barry Goldwater that got Martin Luther King to switch, too - he told others, as well. 

We hear you - and see you - but have never done so passively.

A part of history conservatives don't want to dwell on as (appearing smart to racist whites by filling blacks with revulsion) they denounce us as "brainwashed" by Democrats to stay "on the plantation." Exactly the type of slavery-influenced words, memories,  reminders, tactics, and racial strategies, that seem to tickle racists pink - but will keep blacks anywhere, but with the Republicans, for a long, long time to come.

No Ghetto Pass? No Hoes!

If, after their many years of betraying blacks, white Republican conservatives keep expecting us to go along with what they insist -  instead of white Republican conservatives deciding to do what blacks need - there's no way this black/white thing will ever be able to end.

At least, not on TMR,…

 

How I Get Kicked In The Gut From Reading Is A Mystery

Feel the love, People - Feel it, Damn You:

“Face the facts, Negroes, your race are a failed race because you're a feckless, unruly, uncivilized horde of feral proto-humans.”

Whether reading blogs, or casually surfing the web, the results are always the same:

They get to be themselves and spew garbage - I'm expected to be stoic, like Jackie Robinson, in the face of it.

I promise:

When I'm signed to the Dodgers, I'll give it a try,...