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Thursday, November 12, 2009 | 8:27am
Black RNC Chair, Micheal Steele Says White Republicans Are Scared of Him
“I’ve been in the room and they’ve been scared of me.”
Over the years I’ve heard the fallacy from several misguided individuals that think all Republicans are rich and white. While it may vastly overstated generalization the GOP party chairman, Michael Steele surprisingly is Black. Not only black but as he told CNN’s Roland Martin (On TVOne) some white Republicans are “scared” of him.
“I’ve been in the room and they’ve been scared of me,” said Steele, the first African-American RNC chairman. “I’m like, ‘I’m on your side.’”
This is very interesting in my opinion. In a nutshell what I’m learning here is Old School White Republicans even on the National political stage have been so conditioned to fear black folks that they can’t pull themselves to accept a black man even when he’s working hard to support their own cause. That’s crazy. Almost like some type of political paradox I can’t fully wrap my brain around.
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Why is this dude in an organization that CLEARLY HATES BLACK PEOPLE?!
Low self-esteem, stupidity, or ignorance?!
Or is he like the blind, Black grand wizard of the KKK in that movie, who didn’t know he was Black, so the stuff made sense to him? WTF?!
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And why is he talking about this dumb shyt now? It’s known that white people fear black people, generally speaking.
But that perhaps is my point I was trying to make. I don’t think its the GOP that hates black people its the racist that seem to naturally be republicans that do.
Micheal Steele is just a figure head for the republican party. Republicans just put him there to make black people think the the republican party is diverse and will look out for the interests of black people. do you think he would been voted RNC chair if Obama had not of been elected President? They are not scared of him they are just whispering to themselves “Look at this black fool”.
I think that’s a fair point. He’s clearly the RNC chair in direct response to Obama’s election to office.
I don’t think the republicans actually HATE black people, it’s just that black people haven’t done anything for them lately so they don’t bother trying to cater to them anymore.
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Who was the last republican candidate that a large percentage of black people supported?? See my point?
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Bubba is correct about Steele.
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But see… here’s the thing I keep saying but no one wants to hear: the republican party is just BEGGING for a black man to come in and take things over.
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If you are relatively conservative, relatively educated, and don’t have anything major in your background that you are hiding, I could make you a republican president inside of 10 years. It’s like how Lenin described the situation in Russia: the power is just waiting on the ground for someone to pick it up.
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Being a white man, I can’t do it myself of course, but if anyone is interested let me know and I’ll walk you through how to take over the party
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The dems are different though. They like to claim that they are for the black man, when in fact they’re not. They like the fact that blacks always vote for their candidates, but with the exception of Obama (who they couldn’t have stopped if they tried), they have no interest in giving blacks any REAL power.
I agree with you on that last point. One of the great things about this country is that any individual can educate and work himself out of poverty. And a group of people, united with a single purpose, can achieve that purpose. Sadly, there is no united in Black people.
Malcom’s on point as always. I never really thought about the fact that blacks blindly vote Democratic when in actuality Dems don’t do much in the way of colored advancement. (He said colored.) But here’s the thing Malcolm. I think its that way because of the core issues. The fact is the black community disproportionately deals with issues that the liberals support. Abortion for instance…African American’s disproportionately have more abortions than any other ethnic group. Naturally they’ll vote for the party that supports that freedom.
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I think for a Democrat I’m rather conservative but I seem to find myself disagreeing a lot with what a lot of the GOP party stands for namely Health care and abortion.
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Ok, I have to agree with that.
And it’s more insidious (evil) than that.
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The democrats go out of their way to convince blacks that they can never succeed without the help of the democrats. To that end, they promote the idea that the country is institutionally racist, and that their only hope is the democratic candidate.
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It’s like giving the fish instead of teaching to fish. They want (in my republican white man opinion) to keep blacks on the plantation.
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They want to give them hope of future power without ever giving them enough real power in the present to affect their own change. They want the black population to be in a state of perpetual gratitude, always with an open hand to their daddy-democrat.
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OK… the dems gave us Thurgood Marshall; and Lyndon Johnson DID pass the voting rights act (against the major opposition of the Dixi-crats in his own party), but where have the democrats given any real power to a black man except as alms, conditional on their (the black person’s) perpetual support?
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You’re telling me that with as much power as the democrats have in certain cities and states, we could only have ONE black senator? And we had to lose that one when he left to become president? Please. Go sell someone else that bridge.
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See… this is why I insist that the republican party is ripe for a black takeover. Barack Obama came out of nowhere, went up against what was considered to be the greatest political team in US history (the Clintons). He fought against a democratic establishment entrenched for 30 years in their position.
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And in a phrase… Obama made them his bitch
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Here’s the secret: it is the black voting population that has the real power in modern elections. No democrat can win without them, and any republican can win with them. The black voting block, when they act together (as they do from time to time), can OWN the table, if only they realized it.
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You offer up a sufficiently conservative and sufficiently experienced black republican presidential candidate, and you’re going to have republicans waiting in line to kiss his/her ass. They would beg for the opportunity to make him president because in doing so, they steal back the black voting block for another 20 years.
QUOTE OF THE MONTH:
“it is the black voting population that has the real power in modern elections. No democrat can win without them, and any republican can win with them. The black voting block, when they act together (as they do from time to time), can OWN the table, if only they realized it.”
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Are you listening Nation. Let me remind you that Malcolm is a seasoned political insider with many years of experience in the Republican Party.
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In a nutshell blacks have power because we don’t believe we have it. When we occasionally get our ish together we can swing the vote. THAT’S REAL TALK. Notice not once did Malcolm even bring up the issues. In a sense its irrelevant.
Especially when you consider that in the past, it was the exact opposite. The dems were always the southern Klan members doing anything they could to subvert voting rights
The republician party has Colin Powell and I think I would have supported him if he had of run and his agenda would have been some of the samething that I liked.
@Malcom: Colin Powell was the black man they could of had to lead, but they did nothing with him. He has almost turned his back on their party because they have gotten so radical now.
Bubba… I disagree slightly. In the case of Powell, it was a timing issue; something that I now refer to (when talking about other pols) as the “Colin Powell Effect”
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After the first gulf war, Powell was a hot commodity. Both parties approached him to run. Had he decided to run, he could have picked the party and won. (similar to the offers that Eisenhower got when he left the military and entered politics)
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My theory, the “Colin Powell effect” goes something like this… there is a magic window of opportunity that lies between a person being unknown, famous and well loved; and a later time when they have to open their mouth, show that they’re human, and then suffer the fate of nearly all pols.
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After the gulf war, everyone loved Powell, and he could have been elected hands down by everyone. But then, he took the Secretary of State job. At that point he had to talk, and deal, and set his hand with the administration. And in doing so, he ruined any chance he had of becoming president.
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The trick is to take advantage of your popularity while people still know nothing about you. Then, they can vote for you BELIEVING that you have the same views as they.
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I think the most current example of the Colin Powell Effect has to be Chesley ‘sully’ Sullengerger, the ace pilot who saved all lives by successfully landing in the Hudson.
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He is considering a run for congress. Currently he is in the sweet spot where everyone loves him even though they really know nothing about him. Once he gets into the real run, he’s going to have to answer questions like any other candidate, he will become human, and he will lose a lot of his mystique.
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The best example of someone who knows how to play the game (no offence people) is Barack Obama. He skillfully ran an entire campaign without allowing himself to be pinned down on nearly anything specific.
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Then again, the best example would have to be President William McKinley, who ran his entire campaign from his front porch (he thought it was demeaning for a president-to-be to go anywhere). He was elected, murdered soon after, and then went into history without anyone ever really knowing him.
EXACTLY. Hillary’s the new Colin. President’s stash their closest competitors in the cabinet to keep them from becoming a threat during the incumbent election.
Ok, I have to agree with the timing theory, because Barack did strike when his coals were still hot. I’m not quite sure about Sully, because one good deed does not equal a run for congress. Just like the actor for Law and Order (I can’t remember his name)he was hot at first but went cold pretty quick and we still really don’t know much about him. Barack was a little lucky also because Hillary had been groomed to be the next president and she was kind of hot at the moment, but we went in another direction.
Hillary was (as the phrase goes) ‘hoisted on her own petard’; and I personally found the whole thing hysterical.
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Here’s what happened: Obama was fast-tracked to run as Hillary’s VP in 2008. At the time of the Kerry convention, Obama was running for his first term as a senator. They saw him, his personal history, and his obvious presence, so they decided to prepare him for the VP slot by giving him national exposure by giving him the keynote address at the convention.
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The plan was that Hillary would get the nomination, and then nominate Obama as VP, using the keynote and single term in the senate as his experience for the VP spot (which requires a surprisingly low amount of ability).
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They thought that with the first woman president and first black vice president, they would be unstoppable team and win the election. Long before Kerry lost, the Clinton’s had locked down unofficial support from the dem hierarchy for 2008, and the Hillary nomination was supposed to be more of an anointing then a primary.
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But there were three problems with their plan: 1. Hillary’s own background makes her a less-than-perfect candidate. 2. Obama realized that Hillary needed him more than he needed her. 3. Hil-billy (the bill/Hillary combo) made assumptions about the will of the American People, and their control over them.
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And finally, there was one more important thing: the republicans DESPARATLY wanted Hillary to be the nominee. They had 30 years of dirt on her, and they were actively attempting to help her win the nomination (am I the only one who noticed that all of the Fox ‘news’ big-wigs donated to Hillary’s campaign?)
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Their plan was to build up Hillary during the primary. Go soft-ball on her long enough for her to win the nomination, and then give her both barrels during the general election. (and trust me, the s**t they have on her would have tanked her deep).
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Anyway… so you have a strong Obama, a damaged Hillary, a republican party that had failed to do proper opposition-research on the unknown Obama… so Obama faked the pass and ran right up the middle between them to the White House.
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The only thing that’s missing was what I believe to be the deal to make Hillary finally give up (you will recall that even when it was mathematically for her to win, she was still blocking Obama’s win).
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The deal (and I will be proven right or wrong something in the next 2 years) was this… in exchange for Hillary giving up the ghost, Obama nominates her to take Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat when she announces her retirement sometime in the next 2 years.
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Oh.. and the actor was Fred Thompson. His plan was to run as Reagan 2.0, the fatherly figure who spoke with the deep voice in reassuring and paternal tones. His problem was that he didn’t have the mind, the background, and the fast wit that Reagan had. Sometimes people don’t want the generic brand
WHOA! That’s provocative bro. Don’t you think Hillary is a little controversial for a Supreme Court seat? Hasn’t she had a little too much spotlight? How can she be objective when she’s been lobbied for the last what 25 years?
@Malcolm: Thanks and your synopsis on this matter is very interesting.
Hey, politics is my thing.
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Aside from having some inside experience on campaigns, I’m also a republican who got pushed out when the radicals took over; so I have an axe to grind with the dumb-a*s punks who now run the party.
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At least we don’t have to worry about Sarah Palin anymore. Her 15 minutes ran out last Tuesday
Yep, well you know Levi Johnston is now going to pose for Playgirl…LOL!!! What a joke of a family.
@ Malcom: with all the said in a reply to Juan. The republicans have had JC Watts for years (young, non confrontational, good looking black guy) if the republicans were looking for some black mans butt to kiss what about him. I guess he will stay in Oklahoma and stir in the wind and just make an appearance at the RNC every four years.
Are you kidding? The republicans would never nominate a black man named Watts. Too hard to manage the subconscious psychology.
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Kind of like Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. A man named Whitehouse could never win an election, it would be all too confusing.
LOL!!!! That is too funny…..
Yeah didn’t JC Watts loose his Senate Seat anyway? He had the Obama slot on the opposite side. Didn’t he give the RNC convention keynote?
Yes, he gave the keynote at the 1996 convention