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Barack's Nightmare .....

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Gravatar # re: Barack's Nightmare .....
by Rob at 2/8/2008 7:53 AM
It's not a question of being PC, it's a question of feeding into stereotypes we're better off without, like anyone of African ancestry is only good for being a servant and Republicans are closet racists.
  
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by Braden at 2/8/2008 8:53 AM
Yeah, speaking about Republicans being racist..I find it literally amusing that the political left "forgot" that Dr. Martin Luther King was a Republican, and Democrats like Robert Byrd who was a member of the KKK wanted King to keep quiet. History paints the Democrats as being the racists back then....but now, the liberal left (a/k/a Democrats) now paint the Republicans as racist.

Interesting.
  
Gravatar # re: Barack's Nightmare .....
by Rob at 2/9/2008 10:30 AM
King was a Republican at one time, as were most African-Americans of his era. There was a time when the Republican party supported blacks and Dixiecrats did everything they could to fight the advancement of African-Americans in this country.

During his fight for Civil Rights, Martin Luther King Jr. dropped his political affiliation, seeking to reach out to both sides. So your comment, while technically true, ignores a number of confounding factors to such a simplistic statement.

Political parties change -- the Republican party turned into the party that fought Civil Rights legislation. Strom Thurmond, for example, split off from the Democratic Party in 1948 to lead the segregationist States Rights Democratic Party as their candidate for President. In 1964, Thurmond became a Republican.

I'm old enough to remember the Republican opposition to the Civil Rights legislation. The Republicans were far more likely to be opposed to integration than the Democrats, although the Republicans had Nixon (who, for all his many flaws and paranoia and illegal actions, was not an overt racist, tapes and ranting aside) and the Democrats had George Wallace (shudder).

The predominance of Republicans attempting to block social equality was why both my parents -- both life-long Republicans -- switched their allegiance to the Democratic party.

While many Democrats have attempted to paint the 21st Century Republican party as racist, I'd point out that many Republicans have worked very hard to paint themselves that way.

Individuals of both parties are capable of behaving in a racist manner. To say "Republicans are racist" or "Democrats are racist" is a stereotype. I objected to the picture, not because I believed you were racist or because I believe all Republicans are racist, but because it feeds into that stereotype.

You said you weren't being PC. I'm saying you were doing damage to your own cause by not thinking about how it appeared.

Ask yourself this: how many blogs posted that picture in a positive way, and what political party do those blogs support? How does that appear to everyone?

It's just like the e-mails going around claiming Obama is Muslim. I'm not thrilled with Obama because of his lack of experience, but if one more Republican comes up to me and tells me about how Obama is Muslim (I read it in some spam e-mail, so it must be true), I'm going to have to support the dude -- even against McCain.
  
Gravatar # re: Barack's Nightmare .....
by Braden at 2/9/2008 11:38 AM
Rob,

That picture was not supposed to be positive nor negative. If anything, It was political satire. Get a grip and LOOSEN up a little, Rob. Sheesh.

Please Read this: http://www.nationalblackrepublicans.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.DYK-Why%20MLK%20was%20a%20Republican&tp_preview=true
  
Gravatar # My Response To An Offended Reader
by Braden's Corner Of The Net at 2/9/2008 12:03 PM
My Response To An Offended Reader
  
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