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:
http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/LTHWEEKLY.html

Michael Steele, “Some white republicans are scared of me.”

While appearing on Roland Martin’s TVOne program Washington Watch RNC chairman Michael Steele said that some white republicans were scared of him. Watch the video by clicking the link below:

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Colin Powell discusses African American Fathers

On the first anniversary of the historic 2008 election, retired Gen. Colin Powell, the first African-American secretary of state, talks one-on-one with CNN’s Don Lemon about on the most pressing issues facing black men in the age of President Obama. Read the interview by clicking the link below:

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html

Michael Steele speaks at NAACP Convention

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele addressed the crowd on the second day of the NAACP convention. Watch video of Michael Steele discussing his speech and his visit to the convention below:

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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

Republican calls gorilla Michelle Obama’s ancestor

A prominent South Carolina Republican killed his Facebook page Sunday after being caught likening the First Lady to an escaped gorilla.

Commenting on a report posted to Facebook about a gorilla escape at a zoo in Columbia, S.C., Friday, longtime GOP activist Rusty DePass wrote, “I’m sure it’s just one of Michelle’s ancestors – probably harmless.”

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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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Michael Steele says he’s GOP leader not Rush Limbaugh

On DL Hughley’s CNN show DL Hughley Breaks The News Micheal Steele
quickly let everyone know who was in charge when DL said that Rush
Limbaugh was the de facto leader of the GOP.

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Republican leader quits over racist email

Republican leader resigns over racist email
Here is another sign that Michael Steele the new RNC chairman will have his hands full removing the perception of his party as racist. A veteran Hillsborough County ( Florida ) Republican Party official Carol Carter resigned today after forwarding a racially tinged e-mail to a handful of friends in which she asked how 2 million blacks could get to DC but 200,000 couldn’t get out of New Orleans before Hurrican Katrina. Read the entire story by clicking the link below: 

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Video: Michael Steele’s RNC acceptance speech.

The RNC has picked it’s first African American chairman. Former Maryland Lt. Gov. Micheal Steele He has promised to reach out to all Americans and said that anyone who wants to get in the way will get “knocked over”. Watch his acceptance speech by clicking the link  below:

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html