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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]African Americans are hostile to the Republican party because of a decades long pattern of Republican hostility toward people of color.

This includes everything from overtly racist campaign rhetoric and advertising (Reagan, Jesse Helms, GWB in SC) to race-based voter suppression campaign strategies (caging, voter id laws that solve a totally non-existent problem, poll challenges to AA voters, robo-calls giving the wrong date for elections).  If you Google "Republican party" and "consent decree", you will get lots of information about the many, many times that the GOP has been caught doing voter suppression and intimidation aimed at AA voters.

Several Republican politicians also either have ties to white supremacists or are avowed members of their organizations: David Duke (KKK), Jeff Hall (American Nazi party), Bill Roper (KKK), Loy Mauch (neo-Confederate), Shaun Winkler (Aryan Nation), James C. Russell, and Atlee Yarrow in Florida.

Many Republicans also occasionally slip and say clearly racist things in public, then try to claim that they never said those kinds of things before --- Jim Gile with "n*gger-rigging", Dennis Johnson with "Jew them down", Dan Young (R-AK) with "wetbacks".  Others say things that are hard not to take as racist because of their tone or their inappropriateness --- Wilson with "You lie",  Jan Brewer's wagging finger, Gingrich calling Obama a "foodstamp president."  Then of course, there are the signs that show up at Tea Party rallys "put the white back in white house", "we've got a monkey in the zoo and a lying monkey in the white house."  And on, and on and on.

Republicans have also been seen --- sometimes unfairly --- as being hostile to any federal program that helped African Americans (affirmative action, CHIP, WIC).  Their racist baggage means that they don't get credit for things like the earned income tax credit, which was a Reagan initiative.

Comments like Mitts 47% stuff about all of the "takers" just perpetuated this, and it was most laughably apparent at the last CPAC when a forum on how the GOP can reach minorities degenerated into an angry mob of white people shouting insults at the AA speakers who had come to help them reach out to minorities.

Of course, the premise of this post --- that immigration reform should only be done to get some kind of credit, not because it's the right thing to do --- kind of makes the point in and of itself.[/quote]

Robert Byrd?  Oh yeah, he doesn't count....

You truly are a sheep. Baaah![/quote]

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