Quote:
Originally posted by Love_Spell_6
To TonyBO6
One question...tell me what the democratic party has done for us lately...besides try to woo us with programs disguised to benefit us that only really hurt us??
You look at it saying that the Republican party hasn't done enough to bring us to their party....my take on it is that the Democratic party hasn't done enough to keep us!
|
...the answer here, like most others is subjective and somewhat historial. A survey of AA's over age 50 may point to FDR's New Deal Policy, JFK's perceived overtures to the civil rights movement, or LBJ's civil rights initiatives. Leaving aside an analysis of the long-term effectiveness of any of these initiatives, in the main, Black people at least feel that Ds have tried.
But it's not my intent to be partisan. Believe me, I can argue either side of this debate. Even if you feel D's, particularly in the last 20 years, haven't done much but take us for granted why then have not R's capatilized on this? You cannot tell me that we're not as politically sophisticated as anyone else and able to discern whose acting in our best interests?
Long story short, (if it's not too late for that), Rs don't have the historical trust of AAs in the country over the last 60 or so years. To get that, they are going to have to make (or some would say make more) demonstrable efforts that are seen as sincere by the mass of the AA community. Some AAs feel they're doing this already, others feel they're not.