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Started by baratunde aka jack turner · 1 year ago

The National Black Republican Association has unveiled a new set of “ads”.
The logic in these ads by the National Black Republican Association is difficult to parse, and requires a willful ignorance of the history of party politics as well as a complete disregard for context. It’s also literally made up of googled images, including ... Continue reading »

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  • LMAO! The parody and the "ad" are practically the same thing.
  • Video isn't loading for me....
  • Jeez, Obama's getting it with both barrels.

    However, the Black Republicans...well, that's an oxymoron if there ever was one.
  • Any black radio station that airs these ads need to boycotted.
  • Great new design!!!!
  • The only currency will come from the "gospel" stations. There will be some church ladies who MIGHT, I say might be swayed, but I doubt it. No one on the usual overly horseshit commerical hip hop stations which play Lil Wayne, Usher and such will listen or be swayed.
    Again, the time is now to go Ghenghis Khan. Time enough after we make history to install this glorious new politics of hope. Sadly yet again, I don't see the right moves being made. Time to pay Carville hand keep Axelrod on the sidelines...
  • I wouldn't doubt for a minute that Micheal Steele from MD had a hand in this. This is the same kind of BS ads that he ran.
  • Well it's essentially true. But it doesn't in any way make the case to vote Republican. What Democrats are in terms of racism, Republicans are x 100.
  • You bet your life! How freaking dumb can these people be?
  • Well, according to the TPM post, Steele disowned the ads.
  • The ultimate irony in the ads is that Obama represents exactly what Black Republicans have been screaming about for years. He is an educated man of faith with a wife and family, he is a hardworker who has never used race as an "excuse" for not succeeding. So exactly what is their point? I don't care whether or not they are planning to vote for John McCain, but the wholesale attempt at character assassination of Obama while using racialized arguments is pathetic. And of course they have the opportunity to become relevant during a campaign where they have been further marginalized in their own party. The GOP just uses them to come out and make the racist arguments that the white GOP cannot do, at least on camera. I say we give the Hanky Head ward of the week to the NBRA. And do what I did, and write an email to the NBRA and tell them how despicable they are.
  • To quote a caller to the Ed Schultz show

    "A black person voting Republican, is like the Chicken Voting for Colonel Sanders"
  • Why is that?
  • Oh D, this is irresistible: because the Republican party since Nixon has been 100% operating on appeals to racists. There you go.

    If you draw yourself up into an insulted little heap, before you come back with someee silly nonsense about the Republican party, go read Nixonland. It's the definitive history of how the rethugs used race relations to divide and conquer.

    You're welcome, cupcake.
  • Belle,
    I acknowledge the somewhat questionable racial history of the GOP, just like I acknowledge the somewhat questionable racial history of the dhimmicrats.

    There's wrong on both sides.
  • The production does detract from the message.
  • As said in an earlier thread, I believe these ads will do black Republicans more harm than good. I think black people will come away with the feeling that the NBRA are the GOP's hatchet men, who'll do the dirty work and say the dirty things that white Republicans are too ashamed to say.

    Based on that, I would not be surprised if Steele has in fact disavowed the ads. The NBRA can afford to run those ads because many of its members are not elected officials and will never be elected officials (off the top of my head, I would guess that 80-90% of black elected officials are Democrats). So, the NBRA doesn't care if they offend some black Democrat voters, as long as they can raise Obama's negatives.

    But I think Steele does have hopes of being elected again in MD. And these ads will not improve the GOP's reputation among the voters he'll need on his side.
  • uh yeah, as do the elaborate falsehoods. Obama didn't vote against the minimum wage, he voted against the 5 million dollar tax break for the ultra rich the Republicans had attached to the minimum wage bill!
  • Well, dna, you know just as well as I do that details like that aren't reported. It's played as he voted against the whole bill, rather than his opposition to a specific section.

    McCain's done the same thing at times, and it's presented as, say, him being against money for rebuilding after Katrina.
  • You need to drop MC CAIN video on the board.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWicJNCiyAk

    and it is totally true

    peace
  • There is nothing more soul-killing than internalized racism. Or any other ism, really.
  • This is exactly what you would expect from people we know as black republicans, smart folks selling out their intelligence and their people for a buck. They know exactly that the south's been republicans because of dixicrate, but that won't stop them for making money even if it include lying and selling your own people.
    Democrats at list know that a Dap is not a Terrorist fist jab.
  • Check out what happend in Denver, CO yesterday at the Mayor's State of the City speech and the fallout from a Black women who was suppose to sing the National Anthem, switched it out with "The National Black Anthem." I tell you, white folks truly show their colors when they think you are "patriotic." Click on link http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=...
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