Do my eyes deceive me or is the RNC an exclusively white convention?

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

I am watching. I am observing. I am seeing an elitist white club.

I'm just callin' it as I SEE it.

Correct me if I am wrong. I can handle being corrected.

[BeatleBoot]

1. I thought it was the AARP Convention.

Geritol anyone?

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

9. Hey,...now,...I'm not too many years from qualifying for AARP,...soooo,...

,...stop with the age discrimination, will ya'?!?!!!!

[BeatleBoot]

22. The card will come automatically in your mailbox when you're 50.

Or so says my older siblings...

[DebJ]

2. Black man sighting here!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3908950&mesg_id=3908974

I think it was the CSPAN camera guy maybe.

[Betsy Ross]

A post earlier today, or yesterday

had a source saying 3% African-Americans down from 6% in '04.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

14. Another thing I am observing,...EMPTY SPACE!!! Lots of empty seats.

Nowhere near the over-flow seen last week.

Gee. I wonder why.

:7

[C_U_L8R]

3. Oh they're not just white

they're also OLD

[Fuzz]

4. And grey, with christian music, cowboy hats and chants of USA

Not that there is anything wrong with that.

[mwb970]

5. The DNC looked like America.

This RNC looks like a whites-only country club. It's the right-wing version of America.

[SheilaT]

6. Do you remember last week

when several posters thought that the networks had gone well out of their way to show a racially, ethnically, and in all other ways diverse convention? I tried to get them to understand that the Democratic Convention has for years been that way, while all along the Republican Convention has remained very white. And probably more than half men, although since I don't have a TV and I'm not seeing any of the coverage, I'm only guessing. Oh, and notice that there's hardly anyone under 40 there. The Dems had lots of young folks.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

11. Nope. I don't recall the networks having to work very hard at reflecting that, at all.

If there were posters, here, asserting such a fragile fiction,...well, their assertion is fragile.

[malaise]

7. I spotted McWar's adopted daughter

Poor Laura can't even lie for W without stuttering. George ran from the Convention - not wanted. How truly amazing.

[Breeze54]

8. I saw 2 black females but they were adopted and forced to be there.

:eyes:

Don't you know that the GOP is the party of White Christians?

[DemoRabbit]

10. My husband is hispanic

... and he says "I've never seen so many white people in one place"

:D

[scarface2004]

12. where s eddie murphy?

i don t like white people!!

[MissB]

13. Hey. There are 36 black men/women there. 36.

2% of the convention-goers.

I shit you not. That is the number given.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

15. Embarrassing.

The Republican party is embarrassing.

[baldguy]

25. No, no. They're PROUD of that 2%!

[BanTheGOP]

16. The ONLY demographic that votes republican...white males!

In following the elections of the last three presidential elections, the following percentages come out:

African American Women: D: 96%, R 2%
African American Men: D: 89%, R 6%
Asian Women: D 81%, R 15%
Asian Men: D: 74%, R 21%
Hispanic Women: D 74%, R 17%
Hispanic Men: D 69%, R 22%
White Women: D 57%, R 40%

Yes, you read that right; EVERY demographic BUT ONE votes demographic in CONVINCING fashion.

But the final tally:

White Men: D 41%, R 56%

(Source: California voting guides)

These trends mirror the same demographics no MATTER where the voters are situated.

How in HELL do we have a repuke in office at ANY level is beyond me! This proves two things:

1. Racism and Sexism is alive and well in the US, exclusively in the Republican party.
2. Even with that advantage, how can ONE DEMOGRAPHIC put together MORE votes than EVERY OTHER DEMOGRAPHIC COMBINED?

Of course we all know that answer. That is why I advocate the criminalization of the Republican Party through existing RICO statutes.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

17. I'm sentimental BUT,...I had to turn that dramatized version of "country first" OFF!

I can only handle so much bullshit especially when it's basically demeaning my own love and loyalty to country by doing a Joan Collins smack.

Disgusting.

[Liberal_in_LA]

18. 93% white, 68% male

[Cleita]

19. No, not all whites are allowed to be there.

Having lots of money helps though.

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

20. there seems to be a strategically placed person of color

right behind Cindi

[shadowknows69]

21. The house band was mostly black

[margotb822]

23. They look orange to me

Maybe there's something wrong with my tv. Oh, that was just Fred Thompson's tan...

[margotb822]

24. They look orange to me

Maybe there's something wrong with my tv. Oh, that was just Fred Thompson's tan...

[Critters2]

26. Yep, that is a LOT of white people!!! nt