It ain't gonna happen with the current state of the Grand Old Party. Blacks and Latinos and other self respecting minorities are going to do what they did, run in terror to the Democrats. And quiet as it's kept, that's no real salvation either.
The
truth of the matter is that both of the major political parties in
America, Suck. They suck big ones, big time. All the time. But as
bad as the Democratic Party is, the GOP is like following a guy named
Jim Jones to paradise and then having good ole Jim force you to drink
kool aid laced with cyanide.
That's
just dumb. No thinking person of color does that unless somebody is
also holding a gun to their head.
And
nothing pisses me off more than for some clueless white person or
stupid negro to tell me that Blacks should be Republicans because the
GOP is the Party of Lincoln, and “you know, he did free the
slaves.”
Well
whoopie fuckin' deal.
Let's
buy a vowel, shall we. The Republican Party of Lincoln is NOT the
Republican Party of today. Hell, the Republican Party of today is not
even the GOP of the 20th
Century. The current GOP must have secretly beamed down from some
alien planet that is invisibly circling our sun, or passing through
our universe, because these so called Republicans have absolutely no
human or recognizable conservative attributes, what so ever.
I
learned about conservative Republicans from my own family. Most of
the elder generation, some of whom were freed slaves, were also
Republicans-Lincoln Republicans. However, by the time I became old
enough to vote, some six decades ago, only a colored fool, would even
talk about being in the GOP. We dark, but we ain't crazy. Aligning with
the GOP is like a slave running with the KKK, thinking he's a member instead of entertainment at the picnic, and that was 40 years
ago. The GOP has devolved even more and is a shrunken skull of what
it once was.
I learned that Black Republicans looked and acted like General Colin
Powell, or Senator Ed Brooke, or Activist and writer, Raynard
Jackson, Dr. Martin Luther King or my grandfather, James Chenault
Senior. Even Condoleeza Rice was a Lincoln type Republican until she
started worshiping at the throne of the Tea Party. The formerly
respectable conservative Dr. Rice has gone all the way crazy and I
find that sad because she really could help her party by being the
conservative beacon that she used to be, prior to her stints with
Dubya and company.
These
people were people of honor, without a bigoted bone in their bodies.
They have love for everybody. They just take different paths to
problems that need solving. Some people approach from the left, some
from the right, but the goal is the same and the problem gets solved
for the benefit of all.
Conservative
vs Liberal. It's not a war. It's not a competition. It's a different
way of looking at the world. Conservative vs Liberal is merely a
difference of opinion. Nothing more.
This
is not happening today. The people who call themselves conservatives
today are not conservatives in the old sense of the word. They are
bigots, racists or white supremacists in expensive Brooks Brothers
suits, claiming to be Patriots and real Americans, demanding total
access to and control of a world not of their making. They stole
this bitch from the Indians, and Latinos, and Black people built em a
country on it, for goodness sake. Let's get real.
Rush
Limbaugh, the defacto chairman of the Republican Party is a clown.
The words coming out of his mouth are toxic and meant to divide. Said
Rush:
“let me remind you of something. Let me take you back to the Republican convention.....
We had Suzanne Martinez, female Hispanic governor, New Mexico. We had Condoleezza Rice, African-American, former secretary of state. ... We had a parade of minoritieswho have become successful Americans. And they all had a common story: up from nothing, hard work, their parents sacrificed for them.....They told those stories with great pride. Those stories evoked tears. It didn’t work (in attracting voters).”
Well,
duh! First off, these people are exceptional in their
accomplishments, but not unusual or rare within the people of color
universe and that is what Rush and his Ditto-heads miss or don't
understand.
The
problem with the current Republican Party is its stance on life in
general. In order to fit in, one would have to be white, preferably
male, Christian-Mormon Christian is apparently okay, now, and
believe that life begins as soon as the magic sperm swimmer meets
with a viable egg inside a woman's body during intercourse or rape or
incest.
Many
people of color are not Christian. Half of us aren't even male. And
the main point is that the present beliefs of the modern day
Republican Party are so outside the realm of reality as to be
ludicrous. So ludicrous that the aforementioned Conservatives that I
talked about could not be members of this GOP. My granddad is
turning over in his grave. General Powell voted for the Democrat.
Only Dr. Rice has turned to the dark side among this group.
It
is important to note that all aforementioned still consider
themselves conservatives, just not like this.
To
be sure, there are some rays of hope, the David Stockmans of the
world, Meghan McCain, heck even her mother, Cindy. John McCain has
gone off the deep end. There is no more hope for him. But there are
some who see what is going on, and I truly hope they become strong
enough to rescue the party away from the bigots, racists, white
supremacists and separatists who have taken over.
The
way to signal change, is to simply change:
- Dump the Republican Party Platform of the past 20 years.
- Expel the extremists...Grover Norquist, Karl Rove, The Koch Brothers, etc
- Silence the nut fringe.... Rush, Laura, Ann, Dickie,
- Invite the real conservatives back to the table
- Understand that People of Color are just like you
It's
like Meghan McCain twitted out on Wednesday:
“I don’t need to do any soul-searching about what the GOP is doing wrong . #evolve,” “Keep calling people like me RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) and see how many elections we keep winning,”
That
would be a very good starting place. If that is not acceptable, then
the alternative was offered up the Cincinnati Tea Party, based in
Lebanon Ohio and calling itself Cincinnati because nobody has ever
heard of Lebanon Ohio, or the bigotry toward Blacks that has resided
there for my entire lifetime:
"Today the takers clearly outnumber the makers. Government has grown to take over this country instead of a government of the people. Reasons for this loss of our freedom can be found in all national, statewide and local candidate and tax issues," ….... We will be a socialist nation within months. However, a revolution is rising and all those elected officials that are blind to what they have done to this country should be encouraged to become enlightened, should be encouraged to step down and should not be reelected.”
This is like getting your ass-stomped...... you're laying on the ground bloody and beaten to a pulp with somebody's boot on your chest holding a gun to your head and you still sellin' wolf tickets.
Suicide absolute suicide.
Why not evolve and live to fight another day.
