The black conservatives party needs to rebrand to the black face eating leopards party.
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This is just comedy gold. Like, Republicans have been spending time slashing down voters rights for BLACK PEOPLE and here we are knowing that there are black Republicans. Like, what the fuck is wrong with you?
My mom's an East Asian Republican because she's a diehard fundamentalist evangelical pre-tribulation Biblical-literalist protestant Christian and thinks Trump was sent from God to save us from the devil's minions. Ignoring the fact that Trump has committed practically every sin in the book with "all have sinned".
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I don’t understand black republicans at all. It’s just as crazy as gay or trans republicans- I wanna be like “dude, your party fucking hates you”. How do they not see it?
It's just as crazy as poor republicans, but here we are.
I work for a company that is union. And the majority of the union members are Republicans. WTF?
They don't support it, but "I gotta get mine" is very on brand.
crazy
That's the key word, right there. In South Carolina, both Nikki Haley and Tim Scott of the GOP want to be president. One is a second generation American woman of SE Asian descent, and the other is an African American man.
To me there's nothing wrong with any of that, but then again I'm not a Republican. And that is the core of the issue. They literally think they are personally somehow exempt from the basic tenets of their party.
Neither will win, both are completely fucking deluded about what drives their constituents and overlords, even as they both imagine that they actually have a lasting and meaningful seat at that table, and both are likely to be in actual physical danger whenever fascism reaches full bloom and the real knives come out.
The Log Cabin Republicans, as crazy and self-deluded as they are, ain't got nuthin' on these two.
If I could read either or both of them an informative bedtime story, one that would help them understand what is coming, their place in it, how that makes their beliefs an untenable dilemma, and how to frame their political decisions going forward, it would be a tale about the life and death of Ernst Röhm, an openly gay Nazi who also operated under a very similar delusion . . . until he was forcibly disabused of it, which was coincidentally the last night of his life. And Röhm was just gay, something right-wingers think is a choice that can be changed, not a skin color or gender that can't be. The GOP will use anyone, until they don't.
But then again, I probably wouldn't waste my breath, because crazy.
Neither will win, both are completely fucking deluded about what drives their constituents and overlords, even as they both imagine that they actually have a lasting and meaningful seat at that table, and both are likely to be in actual physical danger whenever fascism reaches full bloom and the real knives come out.
I don't they understand just how difficult it would be for them to win. Enough people will sit out the election who would vote otherwise because the candidate is nonwhite or a woman.
That is absolutely true, but the problem is that both of them won lesser state elections and think that means far more than it does.
Nikki Haley was governor of South Carolina prior to joining Trump's administration, and Tim Scott is a South Carolina state senator, so they both believe that means the GOP is inclusive and will let one of them have the top job.
Heh, NO. You are so right.
What they don't understand is that every "real boss" (the president, and of course a white male) needs secretaries and janitors and people who can raise cash for the party. That is what state politicians are to the Republican party, so the GOP doesn't mind letting women and people of color win locally, because it keeps the constituents happy and the façade of inclusivity intact.
But the top job, or anywhere near it? Absolutely not. Look how they lost their collective minds when Barack Obama, a demonstrably capable (and IMO excellent) leader was elected. The shrieking and hood gathering in response hasn't stopped yet.
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But I tell you, if you're having a problem figuring out whether you're for me or for Trump, you ain't black.
- Joe R. "Dark Brandon" Biden Jr.
For people in the comments saying that the GOP isn't actually racist:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/27/georgia-augusta-judicial-circuit-split-republicans
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I love how black conservatives are like, "I can't believe we're talking about whether slavery was good in 2023."
Like mf, that's all you fucking conservatives do, "How can we say that this shit behavior, was good?"
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Gotta be a special kind of dumb to be a black conservative.
I assume they do it for the grift. Kinda like all republicans or most politicians, really.
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Several told POLITICO they fear the issue will play into Democrats’ characterization of Republicans as favoring a whitewashing of American history.
lmao. calling it a 'characterization' like it's not true
Many Black Republicans find themselves in a quandary: on the one hand having to push back on perceptions that slavery has positive attributes, but also fighting the perception that if they voice criticism, it leads to questions of whether they are sufficiently conservative.
Harrison Fields, Donalds’ spokesperson, captured this in a tweet. “If you condemn CRT & refuse to support BLM, black Republicans are called a coon, sellouts, & Uncle Clarence. If you vocalize minor distaste with a sentence in a curriculum that lauds skills developed by slaves during slavery, black Republicans are called Democrats and frauds,” he said.
i don't understand how they can understand this but not the fact that their political affiliation is a cult.
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"Several told POLITICO they fear the issue will play into Democrats’ characterization of Republicans as favoring a whitewashing of American history. Most saw it as an unforced error at the time when Black Republicans feel they’ve been making significant strides within the party."
So VERY close to being self-aware, and yet so far.
They should ask the log-cabin Republicans how included they feel.
The US has a 13.6% black and 19% hispanic population. Turning either group against you is going to be a political disaster.
When you're too racist even for black Republicans, you know you screwed up.
“Why are these leopards eating our faces!?”
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