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the GOP. It's 2004 and nothing's changed except that for a brief while it wasn't okay to say these things out loud.
With a conservative majority, however, it's not only acceptable, but encouraged. Liberals, in fact, are the new maligned minority so when a black votes against their best interest and spouts conservative dogma they're redeemable. Otherwise, they're as contemptible as ever.
Now that it's preached from some pulpits, bellowed about on talk radio and slyly referred to in right-leaning newscasts the only ones who'll listen when you protest are...well, us. I have no idea how to go about fighting it when they've been taught to distrust anyone who isn't speaking from their outlets and rebuttals for every argument are spoon fed. Even seeing with their own eyes isn't enough. If you tell them a story of a poor single mother with malnourished children, they set upon her like jackals. She shouldn't have been immoral enough to have gotten pregnant outside of marriage, could've worked harder and most importantly, shouldn't expect any compassion.
The new progressive Christian commercial is a good one but they already have already segregated themselves from Christians who don't interpret the scripture as they do.
Someone here said we should call in and complain when they misrepresent African Americans in the media and band together for massive write-ins and the like. That's a great idea. And, I think the more we see hard working families featured - black and white - who absolutely cannot make it in this economy, it may set in with some that it's neither compassionate nor Christian to favor a free-market over well-fed children.
Have you any suggestions?
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