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[QUOTE]Originally posted by David Sands: [QB] It's not like Republicans haven't tried. This from [URL=http://www.nationalreview.com/impromptus/impromptus070802.asp]Jay Nordlinger[/URL]: [QUOTE] J. C. Watts is retiring, and the media and other Democrats are having a field day saying there are no black Republicans left in Congress. Not a-one! But let�s sober them up a little. What�s never mentioned is that, whenever we field a black candidate, the Democratic party moves heaven and earth to defeat him. We�ll have a black nominee somewhere: and the Democrats will make sure to stomp him like a bug, probably hinting, or outright saying, that the guy�s a Tom anyway. Indeed, I believe Democrats work all the harder to defeat black Republicans, because they believe that such individuals violate the laws of nature: God intended for blacks to be Democrats, and to vote Democratic, and the Democratic party is to be the sole protector and representative of blacks. Period. I remember when Gary Franks � a black Republican � was a congressman from Connecticut. The Democrats were extra keen on defeating him, because he stood, in part, as a rebuke to them. And, by golly, they did. This leads to another memory: of Doug Wilder�s historic run for governor of Virginia. During that campaign, it was said, from coast to coast, that Wilder would be �the first black governor since Reconstruction.� This was said over and over again. It was implied, everywhere, that it was the duty of Virginians to elect him. If they didn�t, they would have spat in the face of history, and proven themselves . . . racist. Well, well. It so happens that, shortly before, we Michiganders had a black nominee for governor: Bill Lucas. He was a Republican. And I never once heard that Lucas would be �the first black governor since Reconstruction.� There was no national excitement � which is to say, no media excitement � about him. And would it be entirely inappropriate to add that, where strict color was concerned, Lucas was a helluva lot blacker than Doug Wilder? But he was, of course, a Republican, and therefore considered illegitimately black. He was soundly defeated by a white liberal politician named James Blanchard. And no one cared. And they probably shouldn�t have. But the contrast � between the Lucas race and the Wilder race � was striking, never to be forgotten. So, guys: No black Republicans in Congress? Is the Democratic party willing to step aside and let those Republicans win? Are you kidding? And, of course, they shouldn�t. But they should be a lot less smug about this �no blacks in Congress� thing. Did Republicans rub it into the faces of Democrats that the only black senator since Reconstruction, for years and years, was a Republican (Ed Brooke of Massachusetts)? I don�t remember. But I doubt it. [/QUOTE]Now, Nordlinger is an unabashed partisan, though he makes an effort to be realistic. That said, I think he makes a good point here. I have also heard it said that there is a generational shift happening among blacks ([URL=http://www.techcentralstation.com/083004B.html]though the shift began many many years ago[/URL]). Once the baby boomers are off the scene, politics will look very different. I had a professor who clerked for Justice Thomas who said he could see such a dynamic happening too. So while I concur that there isn't as much pigment in the crowd on the right, it's beginning to change. Don't count on things staying the same. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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