Here’s an ad that ran on some Maryland radio stations in support of Michael Steele, a black Republican candidate for governor. Good thing the group that sponsored the ad was the National Black Republican Association. Two black voters discuss the issues.
Pam: Dr. King was a real man.
Tina: You know . . he was a Republican.
Pam: Dr. King, a Republican? Really?
Tina: Democrats passed those Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan.
Pam: The Klan . . . White hoods and sheets?!
Tina: Democrats fought ALL Civil Rights Legislation from the 1860’s to the 1960’s. Democrats released those vicious dogs and fire hoses on blacks.
Pam: Seriously!
Tina: And the Dixiecrats? Remained Democrats and vowed to vote for a yellow dog, before a Republican. Republicans freed us from slavery and put our right to vote in the Constitution.
Pam: What?
Tina: Republicans started the NAACP, affirmative action and the HBCU’s.
Pam: Democrats have bamboozled blacks.
Tina: Democrats blocked the minimum wage passed by Republicans. Over 200 billion dollars have been spent on education, healthcare and job training since President Bush took office.
Pam: So, Democrats want to keep us POOR and voting ONLY Democrat.
Tina: Democrats want us to accept same-sex marriages; teen abortions without a parent’s consent and suing the Boy Scouts for saying “God” in their pledge.
Pam: We NEED to THINK! and vote OUR own values.
Tina: Exactly… Democrats have talked the talk, but Republicans have walked the walk.
Pam: I hear ya girl. It time for us to “DO” the walk.
(Together they laugh about it.)
Steele demanded that the ad be pulled. Too bad, for too long the Republicans have been painted as the party against black issues. History demonstates just the opposite.
