The Democrats are Wrong on Race

TechRebublican.com had an interesting post on Tuesday night. An author by the name of Bruce Bartlett talked about and discussed his new book “Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party’s Buried Past”. “He explained that there are two major misconceptions that black voters have about the GOP regarding race. One is that the South is all racist, therefore since the South now votes Republican, Republicans are all racist. The second is that the GOP is held to a ridiculous double-standard. So that when Trent Lott compliments Strum Thurmond, he’s pilloried in the media, but when Chris Dodd praises Robert Byrd, a former leader in the KKK, no one utters a peep.” (Blogger) Bartlet was then asked about how the nomination of Barack Obama would affect Rebublicans. How would they be able to get the votes of the black community? Bartlett then said that “while Barack would certainly pull a lot of support from the black community, his nomination would still be an enormous advantage for the GOP, because we’ll see new leadership take charge of the black community pushing aside the Jesse Jackson’s and Al Sharpton’s who are extremely liberal.” I agree with him to a certain extent. I do agree that the quote, "Republicans are all racist" is a misconception. I consider myself Republican and I am not racist.

I feel that the race of the candidate is starting to have less of an effect on the voters. There are still those people out there who will not vote for an Africian-American candidate, however I think that number is continuing to shrink. Look at what happened in Iowa. That is a predominately white state, yet Obama still won. The speaker at the January Series today, said something along the same lines.