Bob Herbert; the ugliest side of racebaiting

You’ve probably already read the drivel that Bob Herbert stole his weekly check with this week called The Ugly Side of the GOP. He begins his ignorant, valueless rant yapping about giving a Congressional vote to the District of Columbia;

Enough is enough. Last week the Republicans showed once again just how anti-black their party really is.

The Republicans are anti-black because they won’t give the District of Columbia a Congressional vote. The District is 65% black – that means there’s 175,000 whites and hispanics in the city that don’t gt a Congressional vote either. Does racist Herbert say a word about that? Nope, the Republicans didn’t change the law because they want to disenfranchise Blacks – most of those disenfranchised moved from a place where they had a Congressional vote to the District where they knew they wouldn’t have a Congressional vote.

By moving 5 miles in any direction, a resident of the District could get a Congressional vote if it meant that much to them. So the residents of the District of Columbia choose to not have a Congressional vote.

The only people who need a Congressional vote for the District are the politicians (most of whom are Black – so that must be the people Herbert is concerned about) who want to rape the American taxpayers. That’s the truth – the politicians in the District whip the masses into a frenzy with intellectually bankrupt platitudes to enrich themselves.

I suppose Herbert blames the Republicans for Katrina, too, instead of the Democrat governor and mayor (a Black) who stood at a distance (in his comfy hotel room in Baton Rouge) and left the people of New Orleans to their fate despite pleas from the Republicans to evacuate the city.

Someone should remind Herbert that it was a Republican Senate and President that enacted the Civil Rights Act of 1957 that formed the Civil Rights Commission. It was also Republicans that passed President Johnson’s Civil Rights Act of 1964 despite Democrat opposition.

He also complains about “states’ rights” – that Ronald Reagan announced he was for states’ rights. I remind Herbert, despite his misuse of the word, the Constitution guarentees states’ rights in the 10th Amendment. Herbert should read it sometimes.

He goes on (and on and on…);

At the same time that the Republicans were killing Congressional representation for D.C. residents, the major G.O.P. candidates for president were offering a collective slap in the face to black voters nationally by refusing to participate in a long-scheduled, nationally televised debate focusing on issues important to minorities.

Why should they waste their time addressing issues that Democrats (like Grand Kleagle Robert Byrd) have been paying lipservice to for decades. That’s all racebaiting thugs like Herbert care about – they don’t want solutions to problems, they just want someone to feel sorry for them and someone to tell them how helpless they are, and throw money at them. The Democrats do that well – other people’s money.

Blacks have disenfranchised themselves – they bought into the Democrat rhetoric and they follow Democrats like sheep – for scraps. And then they demonize Blacks who choose to become Republicans. The Democrats take them for granted and Republicans just don’t work for their vote – because it’s a lost cause.

And clowns like Herbert, who are in a position to change the way Blacks are treated in the political system, instead take the easy route and run to “Massa” and point out the fieldhands that are sneaking off the plantation.

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