| Kasz216 said: I'm guessing they don't realize what the term "Magic Negro" means. |
They may have had the purest intentions in the world. But when your party is losing blacks by a 95-5 percentage margin, actions like this are just plain foolish from a strategic standpoint.
Republicans have essentially adapted the strategy that they can slit their wrists to victory, that they can somehow bleed the impurities out of their party by becoming even more conservative. They don't understand that they need to broaden their appeal. You can't shrink your way to victory.
They have essentially given up on minorities. Their outreach to the black community extends about as far as putting a black person in their photo ops. And even with Hispanics, with whom they actually agree on some issues like abortion, they have forfeited that advantage by taking a hard-line stance on immigration. Hispanics are growing exponentially in numbers, and Republicans are essentially conceding them to the Democrats as a demographic by dragging their feet.
If Republicans were actually competitive with minorities, then things like this wouldn't really matter. But when your most reliable voting block (white males and to a lesser degree white females) is shrinking faster than any other group in the population, you need to get your head out of your ass and start appealing to the minorities who will soon be the majority.
I could be a better Republican strategist then most Republicans, and I am a freakin' blue-blooded Democrat!
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
