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Racism amoung the republican party?

Is the republican party motivated by racism?


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Not at all. People work there way out of the projects every day. People also sell drugs and rob people and are unwilling to try and get them selfs out.

It has nothing to do with having fun or not. It's about having the courage to work hard LEGALLY to get yourself out. Contribute to society rather than leach on it.

There also seems to be this assumption, by some posters, that only blacks live in "the projects". Not so, or at least not around here. You'll find whites and hispanics and asians there too.

People live in the projects mainly because they can't afford to live anywhere better. Mostly, they can't afford to live anywhere better because they've made bad choices in life that have limited their ability to earn.

30 or 40 years ago, maybe even 20, there was some basis for blaming racism for the poverty of minorities. That has changed. I've known far too many black professionals, programmers, engineers, supervisors, managers or business owners to believe it is still a major factor. When I pass through the state college campus, I see as many minority students as I do white students.

Hey, a new day has finally dawned, when race is no longer a big deal. Why can't we recognize that and be happy about it? Heck, I am. It was about time and I'm glad I lived to see it.
 
Not at all. People work there way out of the projects every day. People also sell drugs and rob people and are unwilling to try and get them selfs out.

It has nothing to do with having fun or not. It's about having the courage to work hard LEGALLY to get yourself out. Contribute to society rather than leach on it.

You cannot get a job if someone will not hire you due to the color of your skin. :(
 
The GOP is a party of the elite rich, which in terms of population is a tiny, tiny minority. The only basis they have to appeal to working class people is racism. And last I checked the Republicans are a pretty popular party. So yes, racism is pretty significant for them.

Well said! Someone here that gets it:)
 
lets see: you have 5 kids with 4 different guys by the age of 19 and you are in the projects. Did you c hoose to live in the projects? Yes you did. No one who dies of smoking related cancer (as my father did) chose to get cancer but they chose to do the stuff that increased the odds of that happening.

Sterotyping. Why assume someone living up in them have 4 baby daddies? :roll: I have friends that live in projects and not all of em have a bunch of babies and a lot of them want work but cannot find it and this is with HELP from the ESC:(
 
There also seems to be this assumption, by some posters, that only blacks live in "the projects". Not so, or at least not around here. You'll find whites and hispanics and asians there too.

People live in the projects mainly because they can't afford to live anywhere better. Mostly, they can't afford to live anywhere better because they've made bad choices in life that have limited their ability to earn.

30 or 40 years ago, maybe even 20, there was some basis for blaming racism for the poverty of minorities. That has changed. I've known far too many black professionals, programmers, engineers, supervisors, managers or business owners to believe it is still a major factor. When I pass through the state college campus, I see as many minority students as I do white students.

Hey, a new day has finally dawned, when race is no longer a big deal. Why can't we recognize that and be happy about it? Heck, I am. It was about time and I'm glad I lived to see it.

I call this prime example of White Denial. I never said only black people are living up in the projects and the majority of peeps on welfare are white. No big shocker there.
 
I call this prime example of White Denial. I never said only black people are living up in the projects and the majority of peeps on welfare are white. No big shocker there.

Kali, dear lady, if you don't believe that race relations have changed dramatically in the past 40 years, for the better, then it is you, my dear, who are in denial.

All I have to do is walk down the street and I can see it with my own two eyes.
 
You cannot get a job if someone will not hire you due to the color of your skin. :(

That's funny. I see plenty of hard working Hispanics, blacks etc working in corporate America with no interference from AA?

Wonder why that is? Well damn wonder how I and my wife got 6 figure jobs.


Must have been AA and not all the hard work and sacrifice. :roll:
 
You cannot get a job if someone will not hire you due to the color of your skin. :(

Yes, you can. SomeONE is just one person. One employer. You can't seriously sit there and even attempt to make the claim that no one will hire a black person. People who would not hire a black person based only on their skin color are few and far between. They are the minority. Do they exist? Sure. But in small percentages. They are irrelevant, and hardly a basis for an excuse not to have a job.
 
You cannot get a job if someone will not hire you due to the color of your skin. :(

Incorrect. You cannot get a job if EVERYONE will not give you a job based on color of skin....
 
Incorrect. You cannot get a job if EVERYONE will not give you a job based on color of skin....

that doesn't happen--I know, I try Title VII cases in Federal Courts. Its against federal law for an employer to discriminate on the basis of color. And its fairly easy to prove a prima facie case under the McDonald-Douglas burden shifting analysis

1) were you qualified for the job
2) did you apply
3) were you denied the job
4) was someone not of your color or race hired instead of you

that normally gets you before a jury unless the employer can establish a bona fide non discriminatory reason for its actions that you cannot rebut as pretext for discrimination

you can do that by proving

a) the reason given does not have a factual basis
b) the reason given does have a factual basis but really was not the true reason or
c) the reason given was not sufficient to deny you the job
 
What complete utter horsepoop. There are lots of reasons why non-rich people vote GOP. (And many rich are dems-btw),

1) some people aspire to be rich and are tired of the dems sapping that desire through the addiction of welfare entitlement narcotics
Right, like I said, racism. What color are those welfare mothers presumed to be in the popular consciousness? Racism is amazing. It's how poor white people vote to cut their own welfare, break up their own unions and reduce their own wages--because it's presumed by them that because of white privilege those cuts will only happen to the bad (black and brown) people on welfare. Of course this isn't so, their racism hurts themselves. It's how West Virginia, the poorest, most welfare dependent state voted for Bush twice. So yeah. I believe that racism is the primary motive for poor white people who vote republican.
 
Woodrow Wilson was a progressive democrat and he was a racist so I think we should be concerned with his party...seriously though. Racism is not something that belongs to either party only. Individual people are racist, and what party they support or not has nothing to do with whether or not the party itself and other members are racist. We can only label the INDIVIDUAL, not the collective.

I believe that racism is the primary motive for poor white people who vote republican.
You have to be utterly and completely close-minded and ignorant to fail to see the valid points made by conservatives. There is no point in debating you because of that statement. If you honestly cannot see why poor conservatives exist then you do not know true conservative ideals at all. Are all rich Democrats racist against white people then?
 
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Right, like I said, racism. What color are those welfare mothers presumed to be in the popular consciousness? Racism is amazing. It's how poor white people vote to cut their own welfare, break up their own unions and reduce their own wages--because it's presumed by them that because of white privilege those cuts will only happen to the bad (black and brown) people on welfare. Of course this isn't so, their racism hurts themselves. It's how West Virginia, the poorest, most welfare dependent state voted for Bush twice. So yeah. I believe that racism is the primary motive for poor white people who vote republican.


Wow really?

Stop drinking Al Sharpton's kool aid immediately and report for detoxification.

Also, please turn in your Race Card.
 
Some are just as some dems are. However, the GOP does not have institutionalized racism as part of its program as does the dems. The Dems are the party of affirmative action which is doublly racist. It is racist because it punishes white and Asian students who have no blame whatsoever for the alleged problems blacks suffer today due to what blacks clearly suffered 200 years ago. .

No one is personally responsible for the African-American condition, but as a nation we are collectively responsible because society's apparatus in its totality disadvantages African-Americans to the benefit of everybody else.

It is a huge distortion to say the problems the African-American community is confroting derive from events two-hundred years ago, as opposed to a couple decades ago to this present day.
 
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Right, like I said, racism. What color are those welfare mothers presumed to be in the popular consciousness? Racism is amazing. It's how poor white people vote to cut their own welfare, break up their own unions and reduce their own wages--because it's presumed by them that because of white privilege those cuts will only happen to the bad (black and brown) people on welfare. Of course this isn't so, their racism hurts themselves. It's how West Virginia, the poorest, most welfare dependent state voted for Bush twice. So yeah. I believe that racism is the primary motive for poor white people who vote republican.

believe what you want. If a poor white person is upset that his son was turned down at a school or for a job because of affirmative action and he votes against the party of institutionalized racism (aka affirmative action) I don't believe you can call his vote "racist"

if a poor white is tired of the democrats coddling criminals, disarming honest people and installing bleeding heart liberal judges and if many of those criminals in some areas tend to be minorities, a vote against that is hardly racist.

I realize for the intellectually sloppy and those who feel rather than think to want to label anyone who doesn't buy into the glorious wonders of welfare-socialism "racist" but that is a specious claim.
 
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