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Actual headline: GOP's push to woo blacks (Original Post) Drunken Irishman Jun 2014 OP
Bull. bravenak Jun 2014 #1
I don't know, if I were them I'd rethink their strategy of calling Obama TwilightGardener Jun 2014 #2
They just can't help safeinOhio Jun 2014 #3
What?! They didn't consult with Cliven? He knows all about "the negro". underpants Jun 2014 #4
Alternative headline at link: Colonel Sanders Struggles To Woo Chickens For His Restaurants. Cali_Democrat Jun 2014 #5
I figured out why the Koch Brothers donated money to the United Negro College Fund. bravenak Jun 2014 #6
The text or a few paragraphs from it - black voting stats JustAnotherGen Jun 2014 #7
I hope the black college students will happily take the Koch money for tuition meadowlark5 Jun 2014 #8
Once you take the money of evil JustAnotherGen Jun 2014 #11
Wait, they want to woo black voters? louis-t Jun 2014 #18
Yep - they sure do JustAnotherGen Jun 2014 #19
How in a limited way?.. by promising Trickle down? Cha Jun 2014 #26
Call them lazy worthless welfare bums and takers IronLionZion Jun 2014 #9
Cain Scarsdale Jun 2014 #15
by rescinding their right to vote? Doctor_J Jun 2014 #10
And the reaction to the GOP "black outreach" efforts is ... Scuba Jun 2014 #12
Their problem is: Whenever a black person is present, they say "Woo, There's a black!" rustydog Jun 2014 #13
Woo? Scarsdale Jun 2014 #14
I remember the NAACP meets Klan headline in Idaho there are some real similarities with Republicans. gordianot Jun 2014 #16
another woo thread... Voice for Peace Jun 2014 #17
5 words Enrique Jun 2014 #20
I know! When you make policies that punish lazy poor people, call them "urban" instead of "black" tclambert Jun 2014 #21
Santorum preparing to woo blah people Blue Owl Jun 2014 #22
Lol Katashi_itto Jun 2014 #23
If the GOP wants to waste money, Jamaal510 Jun 2014 #24
Yeah, and lets Disenfranchise Voters.. many of them who are Black. that's a real a winner, Cha Jun 2014 #25

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)
2. I don't know, if I were them I'd rethink their strategy of calling Obama
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 10:54 AM
Jun 2014

an "affirmative action president", calling him lazy, and making fun of Michelle's body. You know, for starters.

 

bravenak

(34,648 posts)
6. I figured out why the Koch Brothers donated money to the United Negro College Fund.
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 11:05 AM
Jun 2014

I better tell JustAnotherGen. Solved that mystery.

JustAnotherGen

(31,683 posts)
7. The text or a few paragraphs from it - black voting stats
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 11:06 AM
Jun 2014

Is kind of revealing

Getting African-Americans and other minority voters on board is a priority for the GOP in part because birth rates among whites are shrinking in the U.S.; racial and ethnic minorities are expected to make up a majority of Americans within about 30 years. The number of African-American voters has increased steadily: 12.9 million in 2000, 14 million in 2004, 16 million in 2008 and 17.8 million in 2012.

In 2012, blacks for the first time voted at a higher rate, 66.2 percent, than did whites, with a rate of 64.1 percent, or Asians or Hispanics, with rates of about 48 percent each.

Few of those votes went to Republican candidates; most African-American voters do not identify themselves as Republican. Exit polls conducted for The Associated Press and the networks showed that only about 6 percent identified themselves as GOP voters in 2004, and 4 percent did so in 2008 and 2012.

Once the party of choice for blacks after slavery ended more than a century ago, the GOP says it now wants those votes back. It is spending $60 million to court black voters, and a new initiative aims to recruit 300 women and 200 minorities to run for state and local office.


Koch Brother's Give $25 Million to the United Negro College Fund
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11877285



The shell game is on. What better way to initiate folks than at the University level of future high earners.

meadowlark5

(2,795 posts)
8. I hope the black college students will happily take the Koch money for tuition
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 11:16 AM
Jun 2014

and vote for democrats anyway.

Just like the beer parties the Kochs were throwing at college campuses to persuade the kids to not sign up for Obamacare. I hope they ate and drank to their hearts content and signed up anyway.

Take whatever these pigs will hand out and do the opposite of what they want.

JustAnotherGen

(31,683 posts)
11. Once you take the money of evil
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 11:24 AM
Jun 2014

You will be seduced by it. Also note the Koch's VERY close relationship to the Devos family.

You know - the people pushing charter schools - in 'inner cities'.

They are coming for - they have some plan to dumb us down. Once they do that - they gather more folks for their dominionist ideology based theocracy.

louis-t

(23,199 posts)
18. Wait, they want to woo black voters?
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 01:17 PM
Jun 2014

Maybe they can accomplish that in a limited way, but at the same time they are suppressing the voting rights of black voters?

JustAnotherGen

(31,683 posts)
19. Yep - they sure do
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 01:18 PM
Jun 2014

But it's a matter of the 'right' black voters. It's where they are going. Pay attention real close - they are getting back the black elite that left in droves in 1994.

IronLionZion

(45,261 posts)
9. Call them lazy worthless welfare bums and takers
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 11:17 AM
Jun 2014

that will work every time!

ANYTHING, except any sort of plans for more jobs, healthcare, education, or protecting voter rights.

In seriousness, they are actively targetting the religious types of all minorities. Many millionaires and corporate tools like Herman Cain have been in their pocket for a long time anyway.


Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
15. Cain
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 12:27 PM
Jun 2014

Herman takes time out from harrassing women, to join the gop racists. He is considering running for the WH again. Some people just do not learn, do they?

 

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)
10. by rescinding their right to vote?
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 11:23 AM
Jun 2014

Well so far their capacity for evil has overcome their stupidity. Let's see if hate radio and Fox can pull this off

gordianot

(15,226 posts)
16. I remember the NAACP meets Klan headline in Idaho there are some real similarities with Republicans.
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 12:43 PM
Jun 2014

As an older White male who personally knows moderate White Republicans I have heard their rhetoric and what they really think. My level of supreme disgust extends to all Republicans everywhere and those who demand payment for the slightest modicum of tolerance.

tclambert

(11,080 posts)
21. I know! When you make policies that punish lazy poor people, call them "urban" instead of "black"
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 01:38 PM
Jun 2014

'Cause you know you aren't even gonna try to make any policies that would actually help black people overcome racism and poverty. So you're only hope is to rephrase the policies in code.

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
24. If the GOP wants to waste money,
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 03:23 PM
Jun 2014

they could've sent it all to me; I could really use a car and a new house right now!
SPOILER ALERT: Not many black voters (if any at all) will fall for this, and they probably know it. I think this is more of an attempt of the GOP to woo white swing-voters and moderates who are not already on board by doing "outreach" and pretending to not be racist.

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