Colin Powell: The GOP still looks down on minorities

Which is why I don’t understand why people get so indignant when someone points out that most conservatives and members of the GOP are just not interested in reaching out to black people. Like, the proof is in the pudding.

libfreeordie on January 13, 2013 at 1:22 PM

That’s just it. The conservative message is not race based. More apropos, it is the message of free men versus the progressive message of serfdom. Granted, we should do more to cut thru the liberal din, refuting their lies and charade of “caring” for the people – that our message of self-reliance, not looking for handouts and continual self-education is the road to prosperity.

But I suspect you really mean that we should be out there buying minority votes with goodies and set asides and generally competing against the dems to out-do each other. In that sense, I proudly declare us to be guilty as charged.

Ironically, back when it was “separate but equal” blacks had it so much better and were on the trajectory to greater and better things until LBJ figured out how to bring the blacks back on the plantation; and suckahs like you not only bought it, you help Massah keep order and try to ensure the votes keep coming for the remaining 150 years.

AH_C on January 13, 2013 at 3:21 PM

Lies, fairy tales and fallacies.

libfreeordie on January 13, 2013 at 3:24 PM

Really? Saying so, doesn’t make it so.

More apropos, it is the message of free men versus the progressive message of serfdom.

What you seem genuinely ignorant of is that the very concept of “free men” was defined in opposition to slavery and black people. Which is why people who supported Jim Crow argued that getting rid of it was taking away “freedom” from southern white people. For southern whites, “freedom” meant the “freedom” to dominate and equality was an encroachment. Do you actually think that if “separate but equal” was actually equal that black people would have RISKED THEIR LIVES, to oppose Jim Crow? Do you think black people were just so overwhelmingly compelled to sit in the same classroom as people who hated them that they would rather die than live in the “equal” schools and facilities of the Jim Crow south? Think before you post.

libfreeordie on January 13, 2013 at 3:27 PM

I do think before I write.

Suffice to say, without giving up too much of my privacy, it has always been the white democrat crabs holding back blacks trying to do better for themselves. When I said “free men”, I meant free in the sense of not depending on a government for special favors, while taking a jab at your understanding of the term. It’s your party that supported Jim Crow. Separate but equal was the way out for blacks to get ahead while chafing under the jackboot of the dems.

Was it ideal? Of course not, but at the same time, while being self-reliant, Blacks were indeed progressing in education, business, standard of living etc. I know this from our own family history where more of us became all they could be back then as opposed to now. What was earned on merit was far more valuable than what the younger ones got based on the color of their pigmentation. For that reason, I refuse to identify myself as a minority whenever asked on forms, even if it costs me some advantage.

In your case, I’m going to speculate that you came along later and rode the AA wave and now fool yourself thinking you’re all that when you really didn’t get squat based on merit. So who’s really free? The Blacks who proudly earned it all on their own, not to discount the hand-up from supporters, vs those who got cheap sheepskins as an attaboy for licking massah’s boots. I’ll even bet that you view the former distastefully as “acting white”, doncha?

AH_C on January 13, 2013 at 4:45 PM