Black Republicans

[ls317]

Ok


Million dollar question how many black republicans can you name?


I am explaning this to my son who is 8 years old....Because he asked me how come there arent many black republicans??

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

1. Armstrong Williams

I don't know any personally .

[ls317]

3. True

Yes


Nothing like being a shill when he was working for a media company. He did get fired for receiving money to push there agenda. In his columns

[Fleshdancer]

2. Condaleeza Rice, Colin Powell....

:shrug:

[ls317]

10. Powell

He bailed from the adminstration because he wasnt in lock step with"Too stupid to chew a pretzel"
It didnt help because he got thrown under the bus also....

[Fleshdancer]

18. Remember his speech at the RNC convention in 2000?

He called for a more inclusive, deverse Republican Party. Waaay too moderate of a message for the neocons...getting thrown under a bus is exactly what happened.

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[BrklynLiberal]

5. Whoopi Goldberg's character's brother on her TV show.

and the Ohio Secty of State. J.Kenneth Blackwell,
and there is Clarence Thomas, of course.

[Fleshdancer]

7. oh, and Carlton from Fresh Prince! lol

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[cornermouse]

6. Black republicans. That does not compute.

[Doomsayer13]

8. who can forget Alan Keyes

psycho

[BrklynLiberal]

11. from the old days. Edward W Brooke.

http://www.prwatch.org/node/1707

Republicans Seek a Few Good African Americans
Source: Washington Post, February 2, 2003
Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten feels "sorry for African American Republicans. They've never had it real good ... So I was heartened when I happened on a Web site last month run by a group called the African American Republican Leadership Council. ... The honorary chairman of the panel is listed as former U.S. senator Edward W. Brooke III, a Republican from Massachusetts. So I called up Brooke, who confirmed the important fact that he is black. Alas, he is not in any way associated with the group. He said he'd never heard of it and had no idea why his name was on the site. However, he was only 'honorary.' Beneath his name were the names of the group's official 15-person Advisory Panel. It includes noted conservatives Paul Weyrich, Sean Hannity, Grover Norquist and Gary Bauer, all of whom are as white as a mashed potato and marshmallow sandwich on Wonder Bread. In fact, all but two of the 15 members of the Advisory Panel of the African American Republican Leadership Council are white." The mission and purpose of the AARLC, says its website, "is to break the liberal Democrat stranglehold over Black America."

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Catherine Vincent]

12. What's his name from Oklahoma? J. C. Watts

A black person voting republican is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders. Bawk! :-)

[candy331]

13. JC Watts, I about fell off my chair when I started paying attention

to politics in 03(thanks to Dean)when I saw him on TV crooning for repubs. I remember when he quarterbacked for Oklahoma and beat my old home team Florida state. I never knew he was touched in the head though. Then I look up on CSPAN one day and see Lynn Swan on TV crooning for Repubs. Of course the repugs only want the elite of the Blacks but will take all the (votes only)ones driving pick up trucks of the Whites.

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[Bake]

48. JC evidently got his "bell rung" a few times too many ...

That's the only explanation.

Bake

[demgurl]

14. Hubby's friend is a black republican.

His friend makes me so mad, he is also a preacher. I recently attacked my husband about this guy. I strongly stated that you can NOT be a believer in the church worship and Jesus AND support Bush. They just do not mesh.

The guy just does not want to give in. I wish he could see the conflict of interest and how he is selling his soul.

[kliljedahl]

15. Who's the guy with the hat?

Radio guy I think. Used to see him all the time, now never.


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[BrklynLiberal]

16. Did anybody hear about the Vernon Robinson campaign?

http://michael-friedman.com/archives/000364.html

Jesse Helms is back. This time he's black!

When a North Carolina newspaper wrote about Vernon Robinson "Jesse Helms is back! This time, he's black!" they thought they were knocking him. Robinson liked it though - he made it his campaign slogan. In Robinson's district, which is 88% white and mostly Republican connections to Jesse Helms help a lot and winning the Republican primary is tantamount to winning the general election. Interesting, Robinson is running to the right in this campaign, aligning himself with Tom Tancredo and Pat Buchanan.

It's pretty interesting how the Republican and Democratic Parties have switched sides yet again on race.

The Democrats used to be the party of segregation and the Klu Klux Klan. Some of their older leaders still go back to that era - for example, former Klan member Robert Byrd.

More recently, after Johnson pushed through the Civil Rights bills the Republicans flirted with racism and segregation. Old line racists like Strom Thurmond switched parties to join the Republicans.

Now the parties switched again. The Republicans have kicked out people like David Duke and fired Trent Lott from his leadership position for making an offhand comment about Strom Thurmond without thinking about the racist implications. Condoleeza Rice and, to a lesser extent, Colin Powell, are idolized. In fact, there is a significant "Draft Condi" movement pushing her for the presidency. A man like Vernon Robinson can be a serious candidate in an 88% white district by running as Jesse Helms's political heir.

Meanwhile, the Democrats are focused on keeping blacks in their place.

http://vernonrobinson.com/index.shtml

'Black Jesse Helms' battles for GOP votes
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040413-121701-4791r.htm

[Gyre]

19. Obama is getting closer

with his immediate throw-down of Dean for telling the truth. All those DLC pukes are suspect Zell Millers AFAIK.

Gyre

[JI7]

45. Obama is not a member of the DLC and

disagreeing with Dean doesn't make him a Republican.

[arkie dem]

20. Old Rat Fink hair,

Don King.

[ls317]

25. Don King

Only cares about the balance in his bank account

[LibDemAlways]

21. How about Rod Paige? Larry Elder?

Funny to think of how few black repukes there are and how the repukes bend over backwards to showcase them.

[brentspeak]

22. Kenneth Blackwell, Janice Brown

Give some people enough money or favors, and they'll do or say anything for you.

[Just Me]

23. Your 8 yr-old asked THAT!!! Are you shittin' me? *LOL*

You are messin', big time, HUH!!!

[ls317]

24. Dead Serious

His grandfather was involved in political circles

[Just Me]

29. *LOL* amazing.

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[stevedeshazer]

26. Clarence Thomas

Funny, there's a Black Republican website: http://www.theblackrepublican.net/

:eyes:

[ClevelandSportsCurse]

27. Karl Malone, Jerome Bettis, Greg Anthony

Since they are pro athletes with millions of dollars, they are voting with their pocketbooks. Malone has always been an outspoken Republican. Bettis donated $2,000 to Bush for the 2004 campaign. I read somewhere that former NBA player and current ESPN analyst Greg Anthony is a Republican too.

[smbolisnch]

37. Karl Malone??

That sucks...
:(

[OrlandoGator]

28. My best shot from memory: Named 9 Black Republicans

J.D. Watts
Charles Barkley
Priest Holmes
Condoleezza Rice
Clarence Thomas
Colin Powell
Michael Powell
Karl Malone
Chaka Khan (I guess, she performed at the RNC)

[Bluebear]

30. Re: CHAKA KHAN

(11/6/00, 6 p.m. ET) - Earlier this year, Chaka Khan raised quite a few eyebrows when she sang at the conventions for both the Democratic and Republican parties. It's not every performer who can pull off something like that, but Khan told LAUNCH why she worked both sides of the aisle. "I am apolitical, in a sense," she said. "I am about the merging of all forces for the good of the whole. What I'm trying to do actually transcends party lines. I have a society where we assist women and children in crises, and I have sympathizers with Republicans as well as with Democrats, so what I'm trying to do for people transcends political parties."

Having said that, though, Khan told LAUNCH where her political allegiance lies. "I'm more of a Democratic-minded person, if anyone wants to know. That's really where my thinking is."

-- Bruce Simon, New York

http://launch.yahoo.com/read/story/12046343

[OrlandoGator]

31. So my list is 8. And still, mine is one of the longer lists here.

Wow, perhaps the Republican party really is White. Who'd a thunk it?

[Bluebear]

32. But don't tell them that, they will whine and point to Condi nt

[Yupster]

46. A blast from the past

Jackie Robinson was one of the most prominent black Republicans for a long time.

Office-holder in Texas named Michael Williams. Wait till y'all see him when he gets appointed to something.

[ls317]

36. Money

She just needed a paycheck since she hadnt sold records in a few years

[ClevelandSportsCurse]

35. Barkley is now an independent; he donated $2,000 to Edwards

Barkley left the Republican Party after they tried to throw out Clinton over oral sex. He is now a self-proclaimed independent. He gave $2,000 to John Edwards in 2004. He even got into a feisty shouting match with Michael Savage on one of the cable news networks a couple years ago.

[Arkana]

33. J.C. "I'll Threaten a Cop At The Airport" Watts

[siliconefreak]

34. Anita Baker

Popular 80s/90s female vocalist, for those who don't know.

[Iris]

39. uh-uh!!!! Really?

wtf?

[siliconefreak]

42. 'fraid so...

I first learned about it when she sang at Daddy Bush's inauguration party. :(

[Stinky The Clown]

38. Michael Steele - MD lt guv and possible senate candidate

[minnesotaDFLer]

40. none who

are poor

[LiberalFighter]

41. Don't forget Clarence Thomas... the Uncle Tom of them all

[siliconefreak]

43. Nell Carter

I know she died a couple years ago, but figured she's still worth mentioning here.

[noiretextatique]

44. ward connerly & thomas sowell

come to mind, though i hate to think of either of them. on a brigher note, glenn loury left the GOP and recovered his humanity.

[Yupster]

47. Speaking of Thomas Sowell

that would bring in Walter Williams too.

[alcibiades_mystery]

49. I love Ice Cube's take on this

A Bird in the Hand (c. 1991)

Fresh out of school cause I was a high school grad
gots to get a job cuz I was a high school dad
Wish I got paid like I was rappin' to the nation
but thats not likely, so here's my application
Pass it to the man at AT&T
Cuz when I was in school I got the a. e. e.
But there's no s. e. for this youngsta
I didn't have no money so now I have to hunch the
Back like a slave, thats what be happenin
but whitey says there's no room for the African
Always knew that I would boycott, jeez
but welcome to McDonalds can I take your order please
Sellin ya food that might give you cancer
cuz my baby doesn't take no for an answer
Now I pay taxes that you never give me back
what about diapers, bottles, and similac
Do I gotta go sell me a whole lotta crack
for decent shelter and clothes on my back?
Or should I just wait for help from Bush
or Jesse Jackson, and operation Push
If you ask me the whole thing needs a douch
of masengel what the hell crack'll sell in the neighborhood
To the whorehouse bitches,
Miss porker, little joe or Todd Bridges
Or anybody that he know
so I got me a bird, better known as a kilo
Now everybody know I went from po'
to a nigga that got dough
So now you put the feds against me
cause I couldn't follow the plan of the presidency
I'm never givin' love again
Cuz blacks are too fuckin broke to be republican
Now I remember I used to be cool
till I stopped fillin' out my W-2
Now senators are gettin' high
and your plan against the ghetto backfired
So now you got a pep talk
but sorry, this is our only room to walk
Cause we don't want a drug push
But a bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush

Tell the politicians, the hustlers: live and let live (yeah)
Tell the politicians, the hustlers: live and let live (yeah)