Report shows GOP conservatives are anti-black, not just anti-gay

[kweerwolf]

GOP leaders from Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman to GOP contender for U.S. Senator Keith Butler may be telling African-Americans that the conservative wing of the party welcomes them, but the voting record of conservative GOP Congresspersons tells another tale.

That's the conclusion of "False Promises: How the Right Deploys Homophobia to Win Support from African-Americans," a report released on April 4 by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

"False Promises" compares the voting records of key Republican policymakers in Congress to polling of African-Americans' top voting priorities and finds that Republican lawmakers have abysmal voting records on these issues. In addition, the report, authored by Task Force Policy Analyst Nicolas Ray, shows that legislators with low ratings on LGBT equality also receive low ratings from organizations that promote the rights of people of color, including the NAACP and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. These same legislators are given low ratings by progressive groups working for LGBT rights like Human Rights Campaign and Americans for Democratic Action.

"I'm not surprised," said Johnny Jenkins, co-founder and director of the Detroit Black Pride Society. "I don't think that most African-Americans who do support those conservative initiatives are aware of the alliances that these political figures have."

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[BattyDem]

1. Is anyone surprised by this?

:eyes:

[MadMaddie]

2. Nope....

What's sad is that they took the one strong foundation in the black community...the church...and found themselve a couple of whore preachers...paid them some money...and voila what do you have...black churches telling their membership to vote Republican because of gay marriage....

The black community does not have a strong outspoken leader like MLK....to slap this kind of crap down.

98% of Black America woke up with Katrina....you don't need to see Klan hats to realize that the blacks in NO were left to drown....and the Gulf coast was left to fend for itself....

[GymGeekAus]

3. Indeed.

So many people died of AIDS. But that was twenty years ago. Okay, fifteen. Ten. Whatever. People are still dying, I know. But we're numbed again. We'd made some advances, formed some communities. We've been living in the open for a while. A lot of us are fairly content. Not everyone wants to get married.

But I just know it. If something else happened, something they could use to just 'look the other way.' There will be no 'grand effort' by the masses to promote gay equality. And if another AIDS event occurred, I don't think much of anyone would toss us a life preserver--even if it was covered by the MSM.