Racial shit

[Truthiness Inspector]

I've read a few threads here tonight about the new RNC Chairman Michael Steele.

My question is: So what? He's a Republican, an American, but it must be a tit-for-tat on race, right?

President Obama and Michael Steele are Americans who embrace two different views on how to get things done, and we, the peanut gallery get to comment on that which is what makes this country great.

But overdoing the race issue is old, to the point of irreversible exhaustion.

[emilyg]

1. k/r

[Clio the Leo]

2. What we really need to be focusing on is....

.... how boring the guy is. I listened to his acceptance speech and I feel asleep three times during it.

The guy wouldn't motivate me to vote Republican much less get my friends to do the same.

So ... he was a GREAT choice. :)

[angee_is_mad]

3. Wonder how some Black Folks feel?

Check out this link:
http://blacksnob.com/snob_blog/2009/1/31/michael-steele-wins-now-what.html

These political parties are going to get enough of thinking that black folks are stupid!

Now the rnc are going to use a black man to attack another black man and think they don't have to worry about being called racist party. Well actions speaks louder than words.

[firedupdem]

5. Excellent blog! Right on target. Steele is a tool and figure head only. n/t

[ecstatic]

21. roflmao @ the Mike Tyson crack!!!

:rofl:


Former brother-in-law of Steele, Mike Tyson, jumped on the Steele for Senate bandwagon. Who knew that the endorsement of a convicted rapist with a face tattoo couldn't win over the black masses.

[AZCat]

26. Didn't the repugnant J.C. Watts...

finally tire of being the GOP racial attack dog? I wonder if Steele will eventually feel the same.

[Number23]

28. "Democrats aren't fooling black people. Republicans aren't fooling black people."

"Give us a party of inclusiveness, with movement for advancement, with a populist undercurrent and pro-Civil Rights stances (mixed with some fight for social justice) and you will get bundles upon bundles of black votes."

HELL YES. That blog is making me stomp my feet and wave my hands in the air. The Black Snob is the SH*T!!! :)

Thanks for posting that, Angee. Damn, that was a great read.

[angee_is_mad]

29. I like bringing the Afrosphere

on here. I think it can be very enlightening for some. There is another world out here if you are open-minded enough.

[raysr]

4. Did you hear the new-negro

threaten anyone who gets in their way? What is he, a gangsta?

[angee_is_mad]

7. Gangsta Bytch more like it

Hell he can't even defend himself.

Could the rnc be more transparent? They are going to trot steele out on the news shows sprouting out bs and hope that his black skin will give them cover.

Actually, I thought that blackwell would get it before steele. blackwell hates himself even more than steele.He is cut from the same cloth of clarence thomas.

[MadMaddie]

6. Michael Steele is another Republican hack who happens to

be black.

He spews right wing talking points without thinking. He believes in the Right Wing ideology and has no empathy or sympathy for the middle class.
If you closed your eyes and listened to his rhetoric race isn't even an issue.

I don't like him period. He is a pawn in the Repug machine and he is willingly being used by the Repugs. Let's see how well it is going for him a year from now....

[Hugabear]

8. Be serious. How many high-profile African-American Republicans do you know?

Do you really think it's just a COINCIDENCE that Steele is taking over as GOP chairman less than two weeks after Obama's inauguration?

I can list the # of "high-profile" black rethugs I know:

Colin Powell
Condaliza Rice
Alan Keyes
JC Watts
Herman Caine (RW talk-show host, sometimes fills in for Boortz)
Michael Steele

That's it. Oh, I'm sure there are others, but the rethug party as a whole has not been very friendly at all to the African-American community.

Did you also happen to think that Sarah Palin was a valid, viable choice for McCain's running mate? That her selection had nothing to do with trying to win over the female vote, particularly disaffected Hillary supporters?

[carnie_sf]

15. Actually I think

you can cross Colin Powell off tht list. Didn't he endorse It President Obama?

[Jamastiene]

17. Yes, he did.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/19/colin-powell-endorses-oba_n_135895.html

[inthebrain]

9. I agree with OP

Yeah, there is a lot of fucking racist shit on the board as of late.

I find very little that I agree with Steele on. That's fine.

Bringing race into this is fucking stupid. Steele obviously agree with the conservative platform. To sit here and berate a black guy for taking the RNC chair because he's black and wonder why he's with that party.....well...some of you should listen to yourselves as of late.

Same shit yall complain that they do to blacks.

Duh!!!!

[Hugabear]

20. Please tell me HOW it's racist

How is it racist to question why an African American would belong to the GOP. Is it homophobic to question why a gay person would support a party who supports discrimination against homosexuals? The GOP and their policies have done tremendous harm to the African American community. Whose party do you think it was actively trying to suppress the African-American vote in the past several elections?

I don't see anything wrong questioning why someone would belong to a party that is diametrically opposed to them.

[BlooInBloo]

32. From the How To Be A Better White Person Manual, page 26....

Anyone talking about race is "racist against white folks". Unless they say "nigger". Maybe. Except if you're Michael Richards, in which case it doesn't mean anything.

Come on - get with the program!

[Life Long Dem]

10. Obama is viewed for what he accomplishes.

[Liquorice]

11. I agree. I had a discussion earlier with

a few people on here, in which they became so rude and condescending I had to leave. My argument was that all republicans aren't racists just for the fact that they're republicans. You would have thought I made some outrageous, over the top claim. But no, I just said all republicans aren't racists... I think that's a very safe assumption actually.

Steele isn't a racist either; he's just the new RNC chair, and I'm sure I'll disagree with him just as much as the old RNC chair. His race is irrelevant, and I don't think he's somehow a racist because he's an AA republican. I don't care about that aspect of it at all. I just disagree with him on basic philosophical issues. THAT is what I care about.

[angee_is_mad]

13. but he accepts racist behavior

when he was asked about his feelings about a fellow repub being a member of an all white country club,steele said he didn't play golf.

When he was running for senator, he prominently displayed and handed out flyers stating democrats for steele. The was not mention of being a repub on any of his campaign literature. He only mentioned being a repub twice and that was only when he was forced to.

He is an ambitious black man who will do and say anything it will take to get to the next level.

Blind ambition is a bitch and I heard she bites!!!

[inthebrain]

14. You just decribed all polticians...

You're hung up on that fact that he's black.

Says more about you than anyone else.

So sad that you don't see it.

[firedupdem]

16. You're right...I am hung up on the fact that he's black. As a black

person he offends me. This guy went out in 06 and picked up homeless black people, paid them with donuts and coffee and 100 bucks, sent them out into black neighborhoods with fraudulent fliers that made him look as if he was a democrat. Why does he have to try and trick his own people into voting for him? Why not run on a platform that black folks would find attractive? He has never ever spoken out about the racist crap some in his party have pulled on people that look just like him.

He can have all the conservative values he wants, but when he mistreats brown people in the process he's a piece of shit. I have a problem with any black person belonging to an organization that has no respect for them. I would have a problem with a woman being part of an organization that cared nothing about women. He's a tool and being a black tool makes him more disgusting in my book.

[Raineyb]

23. Very well said!

:thumbsup:

Regards

[Raineyb]

22. Michael Steele has never found an example of racism that he didn't make excuses for

The Republican party does not respect black people that's why most self respecting black people stay away from them. Choosing this tool will not change that. Michael Steele decided once upon a time that he could get further faster being a Republican than a Democrat and has never allowed something as petty as the truth get in his way.

Angee is right he will do and say anything it takes to get to the next level and whether or not what he says makes sense or what he's doing is right never comes into consideration. His interest in being the Republican's token is just the latest example of this.

Regards

[cooolandrew]

12. Yeah, I see that ideal perspective but the party that has Rush as their spokes person will always>

have that element of doubt in its intentions.

[JVS]

18. After Palin it is difficult to tell if this is a true sign of progress for African Americans or...

another example of republican pandering.

[JeffR]

19. Hmm. I'm actually delighted to be reminded that African-Americans are as fallible

as gormless white jerks like me.

Through happy happenstance, every non-white friend I've ever had has been a real avatar for what's best about people. Most of my white friends have been too, BTW.

Steele is a tool, and his party sucks ass. He could paint himself puce with turquoise polka-dots and it wouldn't change a thing. Here's to the swift end of his nefarious career, and of his calumnious cohorts. Amen.

[EffieBlack]

24. Self-delete

[Still Sensible]

25. I guess it's the irony of seeing an African American

even want to be the head of a party that four decades ago was so bankrupt of influence that it chose to survive by incorporating, by design, disaffected racists in the South. That "strategy" led to all the malfeasance of the GOP since--from the rise of Reagan and the marriage of the fundamentalist (and oft racist) movement to the party, to the neocon/moral majority/deregulation-glorifying alliance that is the republican party today.

Steele is entitled to his political opinions like anyone else, but the irony is incredible.

[AtomicKitten]

27. IMO it's weak-ass window dressing as opposed to an ideological change which they sorely need. n/t

[BlooInBloo]

30. Well after the smashing success they had with Palin, who can blame them for going to the well again?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

To them, women and black folks are ALL equally useless, so the very idea of *distinguishing* between the good ones and the shitty ones just never occurs to them. It does make for good comedy, watching them try to re-create our magic.

Poor, poor republicans.

[sampsonblk]

31. There is a racial aspect to this whether we like it or not

The GOP is all about tokenism. Why do you think they picked Clarence Thomas to fill Thurgood Marshall's seat?

We should not let this subject go just because it is uncomfortable to some.