With Harry Reid spewing crap about "health care" and slavery, and many of my fellow Republicans responding with the history of the Democrats, may I interject reality?
The Democrats of the past are not the Democrats of today. Today, Blacks are an integral part of the party, even if they are taken for granted. And even with that, a Black man was nominated to run for President of the United States by Democrats and it was that Black Democrat who won the election, popular and electoral college, to become President of the United States.
Real talk: POTUS present trumps segregationist past.
Af-Ams can't be "... an integral party of the [Democratic] party.." and "...taken for granted", simultaneously.
Posted by: MIB | December 09, 2009 at 10:13 AM
Sure they can, and are.
Integral to being elected, ignored once in.
Posted by: DarkStar | December 09, 2009 at 10:29 AM
DS, I think that goes for voters on both sides of the aisle.
Posted by: Roderick | December 09, 2009 at 11:25 AM
No they can't, Ed, and aren't... given the realities of the legislative process, demographics, and how gov't works. If anything, the politics of modern Af-Am voters suggest they (we?) are motivated by immediate and personal self-interest ahead of collective socioeconomics.
There is a 'Black' political establishment that gets exactly what it wants.
Posted by: MIB | December 09, 2009 at 08:34 PM