I've heard this ad on the local black radio station

[CatWoman]

and my jaw dropped down to my feet -- I just couldn't believe it.

Hear the ad: http://www.trustedpartner.com/docs/library/000143/NBRA%20Radio%20Ad.mp3



Now I see what's up:

Black Republicans run racially tinged ad

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - A national black Republican group is running a radio advertisement accusing Democrats of starting the Ku Klux Klan and saying the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican, a claim challenged by civil-rights researchers.

Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, the black Republican nominee for Maryland's open Senate seat, disavowed the ad Thursday as "insulting to Marylanders". He said his campaign asked the Washington-based National Black Republican Association to stop running it.

The spot begins with one woman telling another, "Dr. King was a real man. You know he was a Republican."

The woman goes on to say, "Democrats passed those black codes and Jim Crow laws. Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan." Her companion replies, "The Klan? White hoods and sheets?"

The first woman also says, "Democrats fought all civil rights legislation from the 1860s to the 1960s. Democrats released those vicious dogs and fire hoses on blacks."

The ad asserts that "Democrats want to keep us poor while voting only Democrat" and, "Democrats want us to accept same-sex marriages, teen abortions without a parent's consent and suing the Boy Scouts for saying 'God' in their pledge."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060921/ap_on_el_se/black_republicans_ad

[warrens]

1. Want to vote for a non-racist Republican?

You'll have to go back to the 1950s to find one.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Hmm.

They're pissing into the wind, though. Aren't they?

[CatWoman]

3. Hon

there's a lot of stoopid people out there...........

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. Sure.

But they all vote Republican anyway.

But what are the polls saying in the Black community? They've been voting 90% democratic ticket the last few election, I'd suspect that's not going to change much. Given everything that's happened the last 6 years.

[CatWoman]

5. I'll tell you what

last election, a large percentage of Blacks here fell for that "gay marriage" trap.

I don't understand why Blacks as a group are so homophobic.

The GOP infiltrated the churches, via "Faith Based Funds". I was so disgusted.

Why do you suppose Don King and all of those black preachers were flying around the country with Bush?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. I think that's a myth.

91% of African Americans voted for Gore. 89% voted for Kerry.

That's a 2% difference, a statistical anomaly.

I mean, consider a 90% vote! If a president wins an election by 60% they call it a landslide. 75% is unheard of. 90%? In any given election, you're going to have about 5% of the voters vote for the wrong guy, because they misread the instructions.

"I don't understand why Blacks as a group are so homophobic."

I don't really think Blacks are any more homophobic than whites. And has the Bush/Kerry race shows, they're not going to vote for a guy who hates black people because he hates gays too.

"Why do you suppose Don King and all of those black preachers were flying around the country with Bush?"

Well, that's the thing. I'm hoping they're just pissing into the wind.

[AspenRose]

11. CatWoman is right

There have been major initiatives recently by liberal black leaders going into the churches to ask the pastors and congregations to stop the homophobic nonsense.

The GOP went after the most high-profile black preachers they could to cover the territory, because they knew their flocks would listen to them instead of some white republican coming to the pulpit, a la "Justice Sunday." For the white churches, the base is motivated by abortion; for the black churches, it's homosexuality.

If you ever watch Tavis Smiley's "State of the Black Family" on any given year, homophobia rears its ugly head every single time, in the name of religion. Being on the "Down Low" is in epidemic proportions in the black community because of the pervasiveness of the stigma.

Maybe it's because the black community isn't as large as the general white population, but she's right, it's keenly felt (at least to me), moreso than in the general population.

Edit for typo

[Pirate Smile]

9. I sure hope there is a big response ad coming very soon.

There is a ton of ammo. They need to make it clear that those Dems became Republicans. There was a reason LBJ said the Democrats lost the south for a generation.

They can't let these attacks can go unanswered.

[Virginian]

6. What they are implying is only a half truth.

There is more to the history that they have left out.

The Dems that stayed with the Democratic party support civil rights legislation.
The Dems who opposed it became Dixiecrats and then Republicans.

[dave502d]

7. OMG,I don't think that will work. n/t

[Virginia Dare]

10. It's a ploy...

so that Michael Steele can feign fake outrage over it and further distance himself from the "Republican" brand.

Dude is working hard to run away from being a Republican, but you can bet that after the election is over, regardless of what happens, he'll be back to sticking his nose up the GOP's ass.