Poltical Ponderings
Enough about the stimulus already... I've been wondering about something else and wondering why I'm not hearing anything about it... could it be folks are AFRAID of being un-PC?? No! Gasp! Never!
Oh please, in a frickin' heartbeat they run screaming away from a topic that mg ht brand them as having played "the race card". I'm not playing it, I'm just wondering...
Michael Steele seems like a really decently successful Republican. He has just the right amount of conservatism to fit into that crowd without being too over the top (nice change). He gave from all accounts a decent speech at the 2004 Republican Convention as counter point to Obama's speech at the Democratic Convention that same year. And yet, the media went ga-ga over the man who is now Prez. Hmmm...
Now, of course there are African American Republicans. Some successful ones I am sure but for some reason you just don't hear that much about them which makes a person wonder.... is the Republican Party really accepting of its non-white members? Okay in Ohio we have Blackwell and even the Republicans here aren't too crazy about him but hey, there are plenty of hard-working non-white folks in every neighborhood and they aren't all Democrats.
Here is a man, this Michael Steele, who was a Lt. Governor who by all accounts I can find is a decently successful lawyer. He comes from humble beginnings (adopted child, widowed mother, raised by sharecropper family with half-sister). Heck he was even raised a Democrat but switch over to Republican as a young man. He isn't exactly old, he's 50 which is only barely a baby boomer. Obama is 48 so not too much difference there. Okay Steele's Senate race didn't work out so well but... you'd think he'd be a great person for the party to reach out to minorities through.
And yet... and here comes the so-called "race card"... he doesn't get national attention until there is an African American in the White House. How is this fair? How would this make you feel? You work hard, you achieve some success, you aren't exactly a bumbling idiot and yet your party pretty much ignores you until they need a face that isn't exactly white to stick on the head of the party.
I would be insulted. But that's me. And it makes me wonder if the "powers that be" of the RNC are using Mr. Steele. Maybe he figures it is a win-win and it doesn't give him pause.
So I wonder... if the Democrats had elected a Latina, would the RNC have made a person of similar ethnic background head of their party? Things to ponder.... motives to wonder about...
Oh please, in a frickin' heartbeat they run screaming away from a topic that mg ht brand them as having played "the race card". I'm not playing it, I'm just wondering...
Michael Steele seems like a really decently successful Republican. He has just the right amount of conservatism to fit into that crowd without being too over the top (nice change). He gave from all accounts a decent speech at the 2004 Republican Convention as counter point to Obama's speech at the Democratic Convention that same year. And yet, the media went ga-ga over the man who is now Prez. Hmmm...
Now, of course there are African American Republicans. Some successful ones I am sure but for some reason you just don't hear that much about them which makes a person wonder.... is the Republican Party really accepting of its non-white members? Okay in Ohio we have Blackwell and even the Republicans here aren't too crazy about him but hey, there are plenty of hard-working non-white folks in every neighborhood and they aren't all Democrats.
Here is a man, this Michael Steele, who was a Lt. Governor who by all accounts I can find is a decently successful lawyer. He comes from humble beginnings (adopted child, widowed mother, raised by sharecropper family with half-sister). Heck he was even raised a Democrat but switch over to Republican as a young man. He isn't exactly old, he's 50 which is only barely a baby boomer. Obama is 48 so not too much difference there. Okay Steele's Senate race didn't work out so well but... you'd think he'd be a great person for the party to reach out to minorities through.
And yet... and here comes the so-called "race card"... he doesn't get national attention until there is an African American in the White House. How is this fair? How would this make you feel? You work hard, you achieve some success, you aren't exactly a bumbling idiot and yet your party pretty much ignores you until they need a face that isn't exactly white to stick on the head of the party.
I would be insulted. But that's me. And it makes me wonder if the "powers that be" of the RNC are using Mr. Steele. Maybe he figures it is a win-win and it doesn't give him pause.
So I wonder... if the Democrats had elected a Latina, would the RNC have made a person of similar ethnic background head of their party? Things to ponder.... motives to wonder about...
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