Can you respect a black republican?

[Losttribe]

Just cuz you go to church doesn't really make you a conservative

Being conservative in the political sense means maintaining the status quo.

Not sure if you live in a majority black area

But its more than just church

Most black families... And people just aren't liberal

 

[BruhManFromTheFifthFlo]

Y’all nikkas come out the womb brainwashed right into being a Democrat because “republicans are evil!!”

 

[Trece]

I pretty much feel the same way about hardcore black democrats

 

[EndDomination]

I have a hard time respecting people’s political opinions if they stan for Republican or Democrats as if either are in their best interests

Republicans are so much worse than Dems, they're not even on the same platform.

Theres no such thing as poc bro

And here’s the reasons why Democrats are trash

They singlehandedly destroyed the black family with the introduction of the welfare state and the war on drugs. Creating broken homes with locked up fathers and enabling women to treat the government as their man.Now they are destroying the American family in general cuz white people are feeling it too.

They enable and treat minorities esp black people like kids

They pass every law for every other group (gays, mexicans etc) under the guise of people of color but black people get no laws made specifically for the black community

Treat the black vote like a jumpoff bc they know black people will blindly vote for them but dont make any laws in favor of them.

Bring about an insidious undercover type of racism that keeps black people down without them realizing it (which is worse than in ur face racism)

Name me one law Democrats have passed for black people specifically that actually helped

This nikka said the Democrats singlehandedly destroyed the Black family
The Welfare State and the War on Drugs
I hate hearing this half-baked amalgam of socio-economic drivel paraded around constantly and consistently from Black people.
What laws are there specifically for Mexicans
Matter of fact, what laws are there specifically for gay people that didn't just give them the same rights and protections as a US citizen.

You can say the Dems have failed to continually push truly progressively policy to right the wrongs of 400 years of subjugation of African-Americans in the US, without parading the same lazy rhetoric I see on TLR everyday.

 

[EndDomination]

People really have to understand the concept of two arms attached to and benefitting the SAME body.

All of these politicians talk trash about each other in public, but behind the scenes they are laughing and having dinner together. This is WWE and the politicians are selling you an illusion. Supposedly Obama was going to get 'war criminal' Bush locked up. Never happened while Obama commits some war crimes of his own with an illegal war in Syria.

Supposedly Trump is going to get Hillary Clinton locked up, but that never happened.

This is all political theatre. Obama was built up to be the black savior while they run their plans in the background, and now Trump is built up as the white savior to continue pacifying the masses until they can see their plans to completion.

While the nation fights over their 'party', the rich keep getting richer and more powerful while everyone else gets poorer and we continually lose privacy. I'm not sure how more people haven't figured this out yet. They have these political parties to give us the illusion that we are making a choice, but at the end, these seemingly divergent paths end up merging, and it's not a destination that's beneficial for any one of us who aren't in that 'club'.

Obama never said he was going to have Bush locked up.
I don't think the Obama administration was committing war crimes in Syria either, unless I've missed out on something.

I hate this lazy comparison.

 

[Carlton Banks]

Black Republicans are a disgrace to the African bloodline

 

[ALonelyDad]

Depends on their values, the Trump supporting ones..absolutely not because of what he stands for and what he has done.

 

[EndDomination]

Werent democrats in power when poisoined water was getting ignored in Flint, Michigan?

Lets talk about Flint Michigan breh. Who was in power there?

I know you have no idea how cities and states work in conjunction with each other, but the Federal government doesn't have control over states (something conservatives have fought to protect since the Civil War), and the cities get a portion of their funding and decision-making made by the Governor.
Snyder dropped the ball, ignored reports, repeatedly lied, and even post-crisis coverage, continued to screw over the citizens.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Obama never said he was going to have Bush locked up.

Obama's justice department grants final immunity to Bush's CIA torturers | Glenn Greenwald

Obama repeatedly vowed that, while he opposed "partisan witch-hunts", he would instruct his attorney general to "immediately review" the evidence of criminality in these torture programs because "nobody is above the law." Yet, almost immediately after winning the 2008 election, Obama, before he was even inaugurated, made clear that he was opposed to any such investigations, citing what he called "a belief that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards".

I don't think the Obama administration was committing war crimes in Syria either, unless I've missed out on something.

Should Obama Be Tried For War Crimes in Libya?

The Assassination of Muammar al-Gaddafi in Libya violated International law and has led to rampant #Slavery and the destabilization of the region. This assassination was ordered by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Should they be tried for #WarCrimes before the United Nations?

The Obama administration may be guilty of war crimes | Jeffrey Bachman

If we accept the argument made by the Obama administration and the Bush administration before it – that the United States is involved in an armed conflict with al-Qaida and associated forces wherever they are engaged – international humanitarian law is the lex specialis in Pakistan and Yemen. Yet, even with less rigorous limitations on the use of lethal force under international humanitarian law, there is mounting evidence that the Obama administration's use of drones constitute violations of international law in the form of war crimes.

Human Rights Watch examined six strikes in Yemen. According to its report:

Two of these attacks were in clear violation of international humanitarian law – the laws of war – because they struck only civilians or used indiscriminate weapons. The other four cases may have violated the laws of war because the individual attacked was not a lawful military target or the attack caused disproportionate civilian harm.

Going beyond the examination of individual strikes, President Obama has utilized tactics that inherently violate the laws of war. These include the use of so-called "signature strikes" and "double taps". According to Amnesty International:

Under international humanitarian law, US drone operators must at all times abide by the principle of distinction; namely distinguish between civilians and combatants … All feasible precautions must be taken in determining whether a person is a civilian … In case of doubt, the person must be presumed to be protected against direct attack.

Signature strikes target individuals for death based not on the confirmed identity or activities of the targets, but rather "behavioral characteristics" identified as those typical of militants. This is a clear violation of the principle of distinction. Further, Amnesty International questions President Obama's assertion that drone strikes are only launched when there is "near certainty" that civilians will not be killed in the strike – a likely reference to President Obama's disputed method of counting "all military-age males" in the vicinity of an alleged target as militants.

 

[EndDomination]

Not sure if you live in a majority black area

But its more than just church

Most black families... And people just aren't liberal

Depends on what you mean by "liberal."
More public spending on public education and college?
Decriminalization of marijuana and the ending of draconian sentences?
Better healthcare?
Higher-minimum wages?
More infrastructure spending?
More Union support?
Sounds like a pretty strong "progressive" policy ticket that would massive Black support across the US.

 

[Carlton Banks]

Yeah, we have all of these black people in the democratic party and yet we're still at the bottom of the barrel even when Democrats get a majority. Very little changes in our communities

It's up to us to make changes in our communities. Not Democrats. Some Democratic superhero isn't gonna put a cape on and fly around every black community in the country and fight crime, aids, fix the project elevators, paint the walls, pick up the trash, stop the fights, etc etc.

 

[EndDomination]

Obama's justice department grants final immunity to Bush's CIA torturers | Glenn Greenwald







Should Obama Be Tried For War Crimes in Libya?


The Obama administration may be guilty of war crimes | Jeffrey Bachman

You literally linked me to two articles that didn't even mention "Syria."
Nor does the link about Bush say anything about Obama indicting him or even having him charged.
You're bending the truth more and more so it wraps around your "they both bad" narrative.
Dems suck, but they're lightyears ahead of Republicans.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Republicans are so much worse than Dems, they're not even on the same platform.

True. Post 68 Repubs have been truly horrible to us.

This nikka said the Democrats singlehandedly destroyed the Black family
The Welfare State and the War on Drugs

Welfare is a Democrat thing. War on Drugs is a Republican thing.

I hate hearing this half-baked amalgam of socio-economic drivel paraded around constantly and consistently from Black people.

Incomplete, maybe. But not entirely false.

What laws are there specifically for Mexicans

We're not having an immigrant debate on giving millions of illegal immigrants a path to citizenship because of an major influx of African immigrants.

Matter of fact, what laws are there specifically for gay people that didn't just give them the same rights and protections as a US citizen.

Well states have been rewriting the definition of marriage on behalf of gays so they can legally marry in the US.

You can say the Dems have failed to continually push truly progressively policy to right the wrongs of 400 years of subjugation of African-Americans in the US, without parading the same lazy rhetoric I see on TLR everyday.

How long have Democrats been trying to push progressive policies (as we know them now)? I've only seen Sanders do it. So AFAIK, it's only been 3 years.

 

[K.Dot]

Why would a black person support a party that does voter suppression and stoops down to making black boys felons for school fights so they won't be able to vote ?

 

[ThrobbingHood]

Republican is just a political party. Conservative is a political idealogy.

It's normal for black people to be a conservative, but vote democrat.

This man gets it.