Reply #54: I don't know about terrified, Mopaul. [View All]

[Philostopher]

I just think they've determined that there are more bigots out there who hate minorities than there are voting members of the minorities. Here's my take on the whole thing.

The AA vote has never been an easy sell for the Republicans (we make a mistake thinking it's an easy sell for the Democrats, especially after the 2000 debacle, but I don't want to get off on that digression right now), but the hate vote is easy for them to achieve, since bigots also tend to hold other values near and dear to the GOP. Pandering to them that way just plays to the already energized bigotry in those working class goons who still vote for Republicans, even though it isn't in their best interests.

It's easy to appeal to a certain percentage of the population by telling them they're superior to another certain percentage of the population. Both parties do it, but the tradition of telling working class whites that African Americans are all welfare queens and want to take their tax money is an old canard that's been around since Lincoln, in some form or other. Hell, they used to run pictures in newspapers showing an ape and a black man and claim the similarities in the photos proved blacks were inferior -- the insinuation, though it wasn't always there, was that whites were superior because they didn't look as much like apes.