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The breakdown of the black family spiraled downward in the 1980's when the GOP began their crackdown on unions and Reagan refused to raise the minimum wage.
It suddenly began much more profitable to be a drug dealer who still qualified for government giveaways and not get married than it was to get married, support a family and seek legitimate employment.
Gee, my union is now slightly less powerful and I am not guaranteed $25 per hour by the state.
Guess I'll just head on down to the cocaine wholesaler and become a drug dealer and not get married...
Progressives tried that with a name change to liberal... Rebranding, to fool many ignorant with a label like liberal, when Progressives are for anything but individual liberty and freedom.
I see,..Kind of like how the tea party is the re-branded national socialist party?
I know, right? I think it's really condescending to tell an entire racial group that they're essentially still living in slavery and that their living conditions have changed little since then. Also, implying that they're not intelligent to know that they're being "enslaved"() by the liberal "plantation", is incredibly insulting.
Maybe, just maybe, the GOP should campaign for black votes based on actual issues. Just a thought.
Why is it o.k. for Al Sharpton to use such terminology?
What brainwashing are you talking about? Where's the data on what you're talking about? Pretty garbage thread. Perhaps you should learn to actually lay out some of your own opinions and justify them.
I see,..Kind of like how the tea party is the re-branded national socialist party?
No that is what happened in the early 1900's, to the Democratic party, with the onslaught of socially engineered intellectuals and the big push for control in the form of Fascism, and Communism
I didn't say it was okay for him to use it. Do you think it's okay to use it because some black minister does?
No. You pointed out only conservatives use those words.
I implied that you are leaving out the liberals who use those words.
Double.
Standard.
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