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Allen west would have been fine running as a republican but when he aligned with a group hell bent on destroying a black man for having the nerve to become POTUS he lost all credibility with a large number of blacks......not that he cares.
But he didn't align himself with Democrats at all, what are you talking about?
There are plenty of positive role models for Black Americans to emulate. The fact you think that Allen West as a singular example of anything with regards to Black Americans shows just how little about Black Americans and the levels of success a number of Black Americans have achieved.
Allen West was field grade Army officer. I could IMMEDIATELY point out 20 to 30 Black American current and former military officers with careers that are more distinguished than Allen West's career.
I'm pretty sure you just attacked your own comment. LOL
Allen west would have been fine running as a republican but when he aligned with a group hell bent on destroying a black man for having the nerve to become POTUS he lost all credibility with a large number of blacks......not that he cares.
Allen West will join a long line of Black Americans that joined the Republican Party to get used ("See we have one") and then get discarded when they have served their purpose. I give you Colin Powell, Richard Steele, Condelezza Rice, and J.C. Watts as recent examples of Black American Republicans that basically got used and discarded by the Republican Party once they served their purposes.
Allen West will join a long line of Black Americans that joined the Republican Party to get used ("See we have one") and then get discarded when they have served their purpose. I give you Colin Powell, Richard Steele, Condelezza Rice, and J.C. Watts as recent examples of Black American Republicans that basically got used and discarded by the Republican Party once they served their purposes.
Allen West will join a long line of Black Americans that joined the Republican Party to get used ("See we have one") and then get discarded when they have served their purpose. I give you Colin Powell, Richard Steele, Condelezza Rice, and J.C. Watts as recent examples of Black American Republicans that basically got used and discarded by the Republican Party once they served their purposes.
How is this any different than the millions of black Americans who joined the Democrat party to get used ("See how many voters we have") and then get discarded once they've served their purpose (votes)?
The fact I LIVE in the Midwest and I talk to peoiple in the Midwest.
The Republicans just have no idea what they started. Also keep in mind historically states in the Midwest with the exception of Indiana are typcially swing states. In other words the Republicans can't win these states with Republican voters alone.
How is this any different than the millions of black Americans who joined the Democrat party to get used ("See how many voters we have") and then get discarded once they've served their purpose (votes)?
Because Black Americans have made both polticial and economic gains with the Democratic Party in the last 50 years.
And why should Black Amercians support the Republican Party when this is very much a fundamental part of their political strategy?
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Atwater on the Southern Strategy
As a member of the Reagan administration in 1981, Atwater gave an anonymous interview to Political Scientist Alexander P. Lamis. Part of this interview was printed in Lamis' book The Two-Party South, then reprinted in Southern Politics in the 1990s with Atwater's name revealed. Bob Herbert reported on the interview in the 6 October 2005 edition of the New York Times. Atwater talked about the GOP's Southern Strategy and Ronald Reagan's version of it:
Atwater: As to the whole Southern strategy that Harry S. Dent, Sr. and others put together in 1968, opposition to the Voting Rights Act would have been a central part of keeping the South. Now [the new Southern Strategy of Ronald Reagan] doesn’t have to do that. All you have to do to keep the South is for Reagan to run in place on the issues he's campaigned on since 1964 and that's fiscal conservatism, balancing the budget, cut taxes, you know, the whole cluster.
Questioner: But the fact is, isn't it, that Reagan does get to the Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with legal services, by cutting down on food stamps?
Atwater: You start out in 1954 by saying, "N****r, n****r, n****r." By 1968 you can't say "n****r" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "N****r, n****r."[6][7]
The Tea Party is just a national version of the Southern Strategy.
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