Thursday, August 30, 2012

I Hope Black Citizens Will Continue To Ignore Republican Policy

Are some in the Republican party asking black people to switch parties?
Do Republicans believe black people want to be in a party which gives hand-outs?
Well, to be clear, black people don't ask for hand-outs.  We always ask for jobs.
What we get instead, are crumbs from the jobs table.
We generally have a much different definition of the word "job" than many white employers
entertain.
We often have a much different idea of what we'd consider a career.
If anyone thinks women get less that equal pay for equal jobs, apply the same thinking to
inequalities in the pay black people get so often for doing the same jobs as whites.
Institutional racism lives large in this country even now.
Many jobs in our country are still with employers who find reasons not to hire a black person
unless at times a way to exploit that job applicant presents itself.
Sometimes when a man whose family is hungry applies for a job and is offered food vouchers
instead, he cannot allow himself go home empty-handed.
I see no reason whatsoever for black people to espouse Republican politics. Their policies are
regressive. If we all want to work for 3d an hour, we can all be Republican, or we take up the
policies of the blue-dog democrats.
Black Republicans have the luxury of voting at all in the first place because of the blood shed
by so many black democrats. White people died too, but they joined the fight black leaders
engendered. I think we have to give those leaders their due.

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