Why Michael Steele is right about white republicans being scared of blacks

George Cook of www.letstalkhonestly discusses Michael Steele’s recent comment about white republicans being scared of African Americans and why he believes Mr. Steele has a point here. Because of this fear or whatever you want to call it the RNC is missing a huge chance to recruit more African Americans. Ironic when you consider that many black voters are actually very conservative.

Watch the 3 minute commentary here:
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Why aren’t republicans reaching out to African American Voters?

Hi my name is George Cook. I am an African American writer and blogger. I am also the author of a new eBook for the Amazon Kindle Talk Honestly: One Black Man’s Thoughts available here  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002E19JKU 

I have ran in elections once as an Independent and just this year as a Democrat. Since my towns elections are non partisan I actually ran with both Independent and Democrats on the same slate.

Now my town is predominantly black so Republican is just a dirty word and as a politician you don’t want it associated with you in any way.

What’s sad is that the Republican Party seems to want it to stay that way. Not just in my town but in other predominantly black towns. They have little presecence and in many cases no prescence at all.

Now I am a Democrat but I believe that having another party vying for voters attention makes both groups have to step their games up. When people have to compete for your vote they tend to try to actually keep their promises and stay more in touch with the community.

To be honest the Democratic Party could do a lot better by African American voters who have been loyal over the last 20 plus years and some are starting to question this out loud. The Democratic Party is not trying to earn our votes they are just expecting us to vote Democrat no matter who they run without much question.  The problem is that the person running may not be the best candidate but if people blindly vote Democrat they will find that out when it’s too late.

We need some type challenger there  with very good monetary backing to try to keep this from happening. In most cases that challenger would be a republican.

This is opening up an oppurtunity. One that the Republican Party does not seem to want to take advantage of.

It’s even more sad when you stop and think that most blacks especially those that vote on a regular basis have conservative views.

Ignoring this segment of voters would be like Paramount ignoring 10-14 year boys in its marketing of Transformers 2. It just doesn’t make any sense.

I know Michael Steele has given lip service to reaching out but so far it has been just that lip service.

Can somebody tell me why Republicans are having such a hard time reaching out to us.

George Cook   http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002E19JKU

Black RNC member ask Michael Steele to resign

In a twist of irony too delicous to ignore a black member of the RNC is being used to , oops I mean asking Michael Steele to resign.

In an e-mail to fellow RNC members obtained by The Hill, Dr. Ada Fisher, North Carolina’s national committeewoman has asked Michael Steele to step down and ridicules his attempts to lure blacks.

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Are Blagojevich and Burris hiding behind black voters?

White guilt has exhausted itself, President-elect Barack Obama once wrote. Well, not so fast. His former opponent, Democratic U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush of Chicago, apparently thinks there’s still some life left in it.

What else can we make of the congressman’s backing of Roland Burris, appointed to Obama’s old Senate seat by Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

Dreamers hoped Blagojevich would go quietly from office after his Dec. 9 arrest on federal corruption charges that include allegedly trying to sell Obama’s Senate seat to the highest bidder.

Rush, a former leader of the Illinois Black Panther Party, used to sound as troubled by that as other Democratic lawmakers, until it became public knowledge that Blagojevich was going to named Burris to the Senate.

Then things changed.  Read the rest here:  http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html

Black voters had little impact of passage of Proposition 8

Many in the media and the talking heads on radio made it seem as if African Americans were the reason Propostion 8 passed in California. A new poll show that’s simply not the case

….Black voters, meanwhile, may have had very little impact on the measure’s passage, the poll finds. Even though African-Americans turned out in historic numbers in California, as they did in many other states, exit polls showed they still comprised, at most, only 10 percent of the state’s voters. There were simply not enough black votes to sway the initiative’s outcome, pollsters say

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Cautious joy as blacks imagine Obama win

Lula Cooper expects the tears to flow if Barack Obama becomes the first black president. But she’s not breaking out the tissues just yet.

“I cried when I marked my ballot for him. We’ve had such an incredible journey to this point,” said the former civil rights activist, her voice quavering. “I think he’s going to win, but I really am very, very cautious.”

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Black Florida voters hope their votes are counted

Black voters in the Jacksonville Florida area are happy to cast their votes for Obama but are worried whether are not those votes will count. There is even a rumor that early votes often wind up lost and are almost never counted. Gee wonder who started that rumor. Hint it wasn’t the Democrats. Read the entire story by clicking the link below:

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Kids say the funniest things and Obama bucks

Hi this is George Cook the host of LTH WEEKLY inviting you to liten to this weeks show . This weeks topics: http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/LTHWEEKLY.html

Kids say the funniest things,

 Obama bucks,

Obama makes  jokes at dinner

Response to listener comments

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Black McCain supporter getting death threats

James T. Harris black republican and radio host  who pleaded with John McCain at a recent campaign rally to “go after” Barack Obama has been receiving  nasty emails including death threats since making those comments. Watch John T. Harris defend his statements by clicking the link below:

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Attempt to suppress black vote in Philadelphia

In an attempt to suppress the African American vote in Philadelphia a flyer is circulating falsely stating that undercover police will be at the polls waiting to arrest anyone with traffic offenses or warrants. What’s really disturbing about this lame attempt to suppress the vote is that is that it assumes most African Americans are criminals or have unpaid parking tickets. See the flyer by clicking the link  below:

 

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