Should African-Americans give their vote to the REPUBLICAN PARTY?

Question

I was watching a special on Ed Brooks yesterday and of course fell in love. On both parties, African-Americans are being ignored. Where is the health-care reform? When will urban educational issues become a concern to the government? When will we finally address the plaguing issue of social security? Ed Brooks suggested that perhaps we place our vote with the Republican Party, so that we are not taken for granted.

Far fetched? What do you think??

Answer 1

ANY group, racial or otherwise, that votes 90% with one party runs the risk of having their concerns ignored. Democrats could take the black vote for granted, and Republicans could write the black vote off.

It's better to make both parties try to WORK for the vote!

Answer 2

If they want to. Why not. The republicans might even count those votes.

Wow did you fall for it. The GOP is the party that takes you out, says what you want to hear - and then never calls you. Don't you recall the election of 2000 in Florida when people of a certain color were kept from voting? Do you remember David Duke , former Louisiana Republican state representative, and former Imperial Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan? The Democrats had a few objectionable types, but do you remeber Strom Thurmond? He represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 to April 1956 and November 1956 to 1964 as a Democrat and from 1964 to 2003 as a Republican. He switched parties because the Democratic leadership favored civil rights for Blacks. Thurmond is perhaps most famous for being one of the most strident and sustained racists and proponents of institutionalized segregation. In particular, he gained notoriety for conducting the longest filibuster ever conducted by a United States Senator in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. (as a democrat) Thurmond would later moderate his views on race, but never actually repudiated his defense of segregation.

The GOP is the party that liked segregation, the party whos members ran on separating the races. All the racist Democrats in the South switched to the GOP over civil rights. Every advance that has been made for groups without power - gays, minorities, women - has come from the left wing..Look at the legislation that LBJ put through. And Clinton did quite alot of welfare reform. Republicans seem to like to cut programs without addressing the problems that the programs were set up for in the first place.

And it isn't a race thing - there needs to be health care reform, education reform and work done on social security - period. How many african americans are in office in the GOP? (elected not appointed as window dressing)

People of any sex/race can vote however they please - even if it is against their own interests. Just do some research. A tiger doesn't change it's stripes overnight - except maybe in an election year.


Frankly both parties need to do some actual work instead of just dragging each other down. They have done NOTHING of substance that actually affects the population in a positive way. We are the only modern country without a decent healthcare program.

Answer 3

The Republican Party was organized in Ripon, Wisconsin on February 28, 1854, as a party opposed to the expansion of slavery into new territories

Ronald Reagan - (1981–1989) declared Martin Luther Kings birthday a national holiday.

Richard Nixon - 1969 to 1974 established of the Office of Minority Business Enterprise.

Dwight D. Eisenhower - (1953–1961) - In 1957 he sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas after Governor Orval Faubus attempted to defy a Supreme Court ruling that ordered the desegregation of all public schools.

Theodore Roosevelt - 1901-1909 - Roosevelt spoke against racism and discrimination, and appointed many blacks to lower-level Federal offices. He wrote fondly of the "Buffalo Soldiers," led by "Black Jack" Pershing, who had fought beside his Rough
Riders at the Battle of San Juan Hill in Cuba in July 1898.

Ulysses S. Grant - 1869–1877 - In 1869 and 1871, Grant signed bills promoting voting rights and prosecuting Klan
leaders. The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, establishing voting rights, was ratified in (1870).

Abraham Lincoln - 1861–1865 - Enactment of the Emancipation Proclamation. The 13th amendment which abolished slavery was ratified 7 or 8 months after his assassination.

The civil rights act - while southern democrats filibustered the civil rights act, supportive democrats turned to republican to break the filibuster. They did. The only reason the civil rights act made it's way to the Presidents desk for signing into law was because of republicans.

George W. Bush - more African Americans in cabinet positions then any other presidents.

What exactly have Democrats done for African Americans? That's a serious question. I'd love to see a list of specifics.

Beyond that, don't 'give' your vote to a party. Vote for th eperson in whatever party that best represents you.

Answer 4

The republican celebration is making it very perplexing not basically for African human beings, yet for Hispanics besides to sympathize with their political stands. they are identifying on for combat battles against all of us they are in a position to, attempting to unsleeping a sentiment of "taking back u.s.". Taking it back from what? From an African American? I of course are not getting this declare. I mean, Obama did not get the rustic into this hollow. He did not invade the midsection-East the two. Why are the Republicans blaming him for all the countrie's issues? enable's not forget approximately that Bush became into in workplace for 8 years in the previous Obama. And Clinton left the rustic with a surplus that GW did not understand the thank you to shield. He purely spent it in his "wars on terror". Oh, and that i'm not a Republican or a Democrat. yet some issues are purely obvious.

Answer 5

No group as a whole should give a blanket vote to one party. You simply have to look at the intentions of who you vote for. The Republican Party has steered so far to the right that only the religious fundamentalists have a loud voice in the party. If that describes you, you should vote Republican. If not, vote independent or Democrat.

Answer 6

Don't vote by party alone! Look at the issues and determine who shares the majority of your views. Look at the candidate and don't write them off if they are of a different party because many of them claim to be rep or dem but really fall more in the middle. My parents are African American and one votes rep and the other dem. I know you are concerned with the state of Blacks in this country, but it's not in the hands of a particular party.

And don't listen to the idiots who say your are "ignorant" if you vote for a particular party! They obviously have an agenda and not your best interest in mind

Answer 7

The issues you mention affect most Americans, not just African Americans. The Republicans could care less about any of those issues. So I suggest you vote Democratic if there is any hope of getting those issues addressed.

Answer 8

The problem is that you are only thinking of 'black' issues when these are better described as 'national issues.'

As long as you remain focused on 'black' issues the Republicans will write you off as never voting for them no matter what and the Democrats will ignore you because you will vote for them anyway.

One thing I have noticed is that 'black' Republicans tend to be better educated than 'black' Democrats.

Answer 9

Giving our vote to the Republican party is no different than giving our vote to the Democrats. We should not "give" our vote to any party. That is the problem with us as a people; we give our votes away without making any demands on the candidates. Our ancestors did not die to give us the right to vote so that we can vote the "Democratic Ticket:" They didn't die to secure our right to vote so that we can be the only ***** in the Republican party.

As long as our vote (the Black vote) is scattered and divided, we will always be ignored and taken for granted. We need a Black Agenda.

Answer 10

I think that any black person that votes for the Democrats needs to be put in chains and sent to a plantation for slave duty.

Dems owned all the slaves in the South
Dems Started the Klan to torment freed slaves
Dems were the land owners screwing over black sharecropper
Dems were the party of the people lynching blacks
Dems created Jim Crowe laws to hold back blacks
Dems started all the welfare and such that have destroyed the black family