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Originally posted by Rudey
For the black race to matter more in American politics, you need to vote more for Republican candidates.
That's not a joke.
When you're split more evenly among parties, those politicians tend to offer you more to get the balance of the population to swing in their favor.
So the next time you are voting, remember that, and vote Republican 
-Rudey
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The only problem is that voting Republican means voting for a platform that enforces negative stereotypes against us. Remember Bill Bennett?
AfAms are actually a quite conservative cultural group, particularly those who have escaped poverty. The issue, however, is
1) many of the older AfAms who have escaped poverty still remember it and its stigma and can't bring themselves to vote for a party that blames the poor instead of helps it , and
2) we all feel the effects of racism and just can't vote for a party that wants to pin the problms of America (many of which are the result of poverty --not race-- or lifestly issues we want nothing to do with anyway) on us (AfAms on the whole are quite homophobic).
A lot (respectively speaking) of AfAms voted for Bush simply because of the gay marriage issue, but none of his appointees were appointed with any thought of us in mind.
It is hard to buy into the idea of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps when all the good jobs seem to go to cronys. I don't mind a hypocrit, but know what you are.
I myself, get more and more conservative as I age. I will be taxed out the wazoo if I take my law firm job offer and my parents already are. I have lived in DC but have claimed TX as my state of residency for the past 2 years since we don't have income tax. I am married and don't believe in divorce. I am a Christian and honeslty believe family values are important, but honestly I don't really care about what goes on in someone else's bedroom. Nevertheless, despite my conservative or at least moderate stance on many issues I cannot vote Republican because an AfAm (I prefer American Black since I have never been to Africa, know no parts of it, and am just as American as you, but I digress) I know that Republicans still see me as a criminal.....now why would I support that?
What AfAms need is not to vote Republican or Democrat for that matter- we're only 13% fo the population, we're not gonna affect change either way. What we need to do is keep our money in our communities and start our own businesses. Right now Mobil oil could buy up the top 100 black businesses with the money it has liquid...and still have more left over. We need to get on that level. I am so over racism- who cares- be a racist- I know in this country money talks. We need to stop working for corporations and start corporations.
WE need to go back to the days of Greenwood, OK and that way, if we need political change we can forget voting, and just do like Ford and Mobil Oil do, fund campaigns. Voting is bull sh*t unless there are enough of you to matter, Mobil Oil and its shareholders constiute a small portion of the electorate, but they sure do run sh*t. That is what we
need to do. FUND THE CAMPAIGNS..money buys influence.
That is where realy change lies. That is why Condoleeza is in the Cabinet- there is an oil tanker named after her.
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