Some Black Republicans Torn About Voting for Obama or McCain
The historic nature of Obama's candidacy has some African-American Republicans conflicted
Rice's organization refutes this and publishes the Black Republican, a magazine that provides biting criticism of the Democratic Party and sponsors large billboards in the South touting, "Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican." (While his family may have originally been Republican, King supported Democrats John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson).
As for supporting Obama, she says absolutely not. For Rice, it will be a vote for McCain come November.
Another "very likely" McCain vote, but a more moderate one, will come from Richard Ivory, founder of the blog HipHopRepublican. Ivory has a different view of the Republican Party, one that downplays the past and focuses on building the party up from a local level and bringing in urban African-American voters. "My blog was about starting a dialogue—basically get people to understand some Republican concepts from an urban perspective," Ivory says. And like Varner at Howard University, Ivory finds that some are miffed by his Republicanness and don't quite understand why he would support a "white old guy." But with the general election in full swing, he has found a good way to express his feelings: "I tell my friends, my heart is with Obama, and my brain is with McCain," Ivory says.
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After the 2008 election, I am considering changing my political party from Democrat to Republican or Independent. There are a few political talking points that the Republican Party have that I find hard to swollow. Their views on abortions, on business being the central theme to the solution in solving the high employment rate with no regulation and to embrass deregulation("trickle down economics"), and on a honest oversite o the Republican agenda. Does it help or harm the majority of the black race or the minorities?
It is one thing as Blacks to join the Republican Party, but to take up all their talking points as thought we as Blacks do not a slightly different view of the issue of our own. For example on abortion, I believe if abortion is stopped we must feed the on slot of unwanted births that will come with this decision. If stopping abortions is a matter of religious belief, as it is stated in Proverbs, you must not cause anyone to stubble. They may be hanging on by a thread.
Does the trickle down economics really work for blacks. When applying for jobs are there equality in hiring? I think how hiring really works for Blacks are most representative in the polictical parties. A clear measurement of Black politicans in the legislative branches is how hiring is done just enough to be borderline fair. Do an analysis of what jobs are available to Blacks making less than 50,000 a year. Why? How are Blacks used in the work place making 60,000 and above? You will be surprise as to what you will find.
The Black Democratic and Republican parties should do annual do a study or analysis of how this policies will help or harm miniorities, and come up with an alternative to either parties policies.
It is time Americans especially Black Americans to stop participating in lock step agendas, and spearhead counterproductive agendas that will defeat lopesided results.
A final thought is that Americans seem to look at political parties as they would look at their favor sports team right or wrong, win or lose I'm for my party. I appeal to all Americans unlike sports policies has a forever impact on our lives.
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