...what I'd really like to see is a million angry protesters marching on the headquarters of the National Republican Party in Washington.
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Last week the Republicans showed once again just how anti-black their party really is.
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At least 57 senators favored the bill [to give Washington, DC residents one voting representative in Congress] a solid majority. But the Republicans prevented a key motion on the measure from receiving the 60 votes necessary to move it forward in the Senate. The bill died.
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At the same time that the Republicans were killing Congressional representation for D.C. residents, the major G.O.P. candidates for president were offering a collective slap in the face to black voters nationally by refusing to participate in a long-scheduled, nationally televised debate focusing on issues important to minorities.
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The Republican debate [NPR/Tavis Smiley] is scheduled for Thursday. But Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson have all told Mr. Smiley: "No way, baby."
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In 1981, during the first year of Mr. Reagan's presidency, the late Lee Atwater gave an interview to a political science professor at Case Western Reserve University, explaining the evolution of the Southern strategy:"You start out in 1954 by saying, 'Nigger, nigger, nigger,' " said Atwater. "By 1968, you can't say 'nigger' - that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights, and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things, and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites."
In 2005, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, Virginia's non-white population was represented as follows:
19% Black
7% Hispanic
5% Asian American/Pacific Islanders
Thirty-one percent (at a miniumum) of Virginia's population is a hard number to just dismiss!!! Well, Virginia Republicans, can't say you haven't had your chance....Senator Warner to show you care about minorities.
Lee Atwater, the late guiding light of the Republican Party's subsequent unending attack-dog messages of hate, ridicule, racism, anti-Semitism, anti-decency as exemplified by the Sermon on the Mount, war mongering, jingoism, and quasi-Fascism, was the progenator of this split-the-country methodology. His legacy is a government incapable of doing its job because of the divisions he successfully advocated.
I am not a person who bears grudges, so I wish Mr Atwater calm rest in the fires of hell in which he is undoubtedly burning.