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Originally posted by Love_Spell_6
First, the NAACP does not represent my beliefs..and I resent them asserting that they represent the "African American community"
Second, why would any Republican waste time going to an organization where the people vote 90% Republican and according to the Polls hate them and their party??
Third, how dare Mfume suggest that because they don't attend, they obviously don't care about "our" community???
WHEN and ONLY WHEN African Americans stop voting as if we're a monolithic group of people...will Republicans take us seriously.. We have seriously bought into the rhetoric that Repubs are a group of homophobic and racist folks....and that the Dems actually do "care" about this community
Hell if I was Bush..I wouldn't have gone either.
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"why would any Republican waste time going to an organization where the people vote 90% (Democratic) and according to the Polls hate them and their party??"
Because you might want to reduce your opponent's 90 percent advantage to maybe 70 or 60 percent one day? I don't think AA's "hate" Rs, but I leave you your comment.
...I agree that Mfume's rhetoric went a bit overboard, but it's just interest group politics on display. It's the same thing the Natl. Rifle Assocation, and other "conservative" groups, practice (albeit not as visibly as the NAACP did) regularly. If your constituency makes up a substantial part of a party's political base, you expect a certain level of treatment by the candidate(s).