Ted Rall for September 13, 2013

Actually, no, that’s an observation of historical truth, and wonderment at how much things have improved. Hatred, no.

Look, if you want to attack Democrats on race, you can’t do it from a right-wing vantage point. There’s a reason blacks vote 98% Democratic…they know the Republicans hate them. I would attack Dems from the left, pointing out that they don’t do enough about inner city poverty, for example.

99% the latter.

“No one in the real world believes things that hate filled anymore.”

Most black people do (believe that right-wing blacks are self-hating, opportunistic tokens).

Examples? Condi Rice. Colin Powell. Michael Steele. They sold out their fellow blacks in order to advance themselves in a (racist) white man’s party, and they are disgusting and pathetic.

That is an excellent question. Obama sucks. He has been roundly, and correctly, criticized for his failure to act on behalf of black issues.

To clarify, the “personal gain” is not for black Republican VOTERS (of whom there are hardly any), but for black Republican POLITICIANS, who cynically figure that they can sell out in exchange for being exploited as tokens.

One example:

“Reagan was the first presidential candidate ever to appear at the fair, and he knew exactly what he was doing when he told that crowd, “I believe in states’ rights.”

Reagan apologists have every right to be ashamed of that appearance by their hero, but they have no right to change the meaning of it, which was unmistakable. Commentators have been trying of late to put this appearance by Reagan into a racially benign context.

That won’t wash. Reagan may have been blessed with a Hollywood smile and an avuncular delivery, but he was elbow deep in the same old race-baiting Southern strategy of Goldwater and Nixon.

Everybody watching the 1980 campaign knew what Reagan was signaling at the fair. Whites and blacks, Democrats and Republicans — they all knew. The news media knew. The race haters and the people appalled by racial hatred knew. And Reagan knew.

He was tapping out the code. It was understood that when politicians started chirping about “states’ rights” to white people in places like Neshoba County they were saying that when it comes down to you and the blacks, we’re with you.

And Reagan meant it. He was opposed to the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was the same year that Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney were slaughtered. As president, he actually tried to weaken the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He opposed a national holiday for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He tried to get rid of the federal ban on tax exemptions for private schools that practiced racial discrimination. And in 1988, he vetoed a bill to expand the reach of federal civil rights legislation."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/13/opinion/13herbert.html

http://www.policymic.com/articles/12137/how-the-gop-lost-the-african-american-vote-and-their-civil-rights-reputation

I expect no response.