I don’t understand black republicans at all. It’s just as crazy as gay or trans republicans- I wanna be like “dude, your party fucking hates you”. How do they not see it?
It's just as crazy as poor republicans, but here we are.
The poor ones think they're one Repub presidency away from all being richer, but those GOT DAM DEMONRATS keep ruining it for em.
A shame they can't afford a decent education, and choose instead to slander and libel the entire institution when it criticizes their bs
Any persecuted minority group who are republicans is just absolutely baffling to me…best I can come up with is that it’s god-level Stockholm syndrome.
I work for a company that is union. And the majority of the union members are Republicans. WTF?
They don't support it, but "I gotta get mine" is very on brand.
The republican party is the party of single issue voters. I'd bet a large majority of their base wouldn't vote for them if they didn't support their one wedge issue that they won't budge on for anything. It lets people excuse a lot of bullshit if they can just propel their personal cause forward.
Self hatred is a hell of a drug.
I don't think they hate themselves. They just hate other things that republicans also hate. They hate poor people, gay people and trans people enough that they are willing to take some hits to themselves as long as it hits the other groups harder.
I don't know, I think that still counts as self-hatred, in a way. You have to be some special kind of fucked up to hate another group of people so intensely that you'd voluntarily wade knee-deep in shit just to shove them in down to their shoulders.
Several told POLITICO they fear the issue will play into Democrats’ characterization of Republicans as favoring a whitewashing of American history.
lmao. calling it a 'characterization' like it's not true
Many Black Republicans find themselves in a quandary: on the one hand having to push back on perceptions that slavery has positive attributes, but also fighting the perception that if they voice criticism, it leads to questions of whether they are sufficiently conservative.
Harrison Fields, Donalds’ spokesperson, captured this in a tweet. “If you condemn CRT & refuse to support BLM, black Republicans are called a coon, sellouts, & Uncle Clarence. If you vocalize minor distaste with a sentence in a curriculum that lauds skills developed by slaves during slavery, black Republicans are called Democrats and frauds,” he said.
i don't understand how they can understand this but not the fact that their political affiliation is a cult.
So very, very close to grasping their error...
Several told POLITICO they fear the issue will play into Democrats’ characterization of Republicans as favoring a whitewashing of American history.
lmao. calling it a 'characterization' like it's not true
Seriously. CRT bullshit was the clarion call of the Republican party for the last few years. Are they claiming that was just satire or something? And Confederate apologetics has been a key Republican talking point for decades now. I wonder how they feel about all the gnashing of teeth over statues of racist shitheads getting taken down.
I love how black conservatives are like, "I can't believe we're talking about whether slavery was good in 2023."
Like mf, that's all you fucking conservatives do, "How can we say that this shit behavior, was good?"
What do y'all think they're trying to conserve??
Reminds me of that Goose meme, 'States rights for what motherfucker?!'
In other words, they never thought leopards would come for their faces like they did their ancestors.
This is just comedy gold. Like, Republicans have been spending time slashing down voters rights for BLACK PEOPLE and here we are knowing that there are black Republicans. Like, what the fuck is wrong with you?
My mom's an East Asian Republican because she's a diehard fundamentalist evangelical pre-tribulation Biblical-literalist protestant Christian and thinks Trump was sent from God to save us from the devil's minions. Ignoring the fact that Trump has committed practically every sin in the book with "all have sinned".
Call them woke, Ron. Please call them woke. I want to see this drag out. I'm making popcorn.
We can only hope someone calls him a cuck for not calling them woke, and let the circular firing squad begin
"Several told POLITICO they fear the issue will play into Democrats’ characterization of Republicans as favoring a whitewashing of American history. Most saw it as an unforced error at the time when Black Republicans feel they’ve been making significant strides within the party."
So VERY close to being self-aware, and yet so far.
They should ask the log-cabin Republicans how included they feel.
Gotta be a special kind of dumb to be a black conservative.
I assume they do it for the grift. Kinda like all republicans or most politicians, really.
TIL - There are black Republicans.
Clarence Thomas wasn't a Dem nomination for SCOTUS.
Oh yes. One of our senators is a black republican AND running for president. He seems like the nicest guy but so fucking stupid. Tim Scott.
The black conservatives party needs to rebrand to the black face eating leopards party.
This little political misstep is easy to understand, when you account for the fact that Ron DeSantis is a fucking idiot.
don't forget racist
Several told POLITICO they fear the issue will play into Democrats’ characterization of Republicans as favoring a whitewashing of American history. Most saw it as an unforced error at the time when Black Republicans feel they’ve been making significant strides within the party.
“It raises eyebrows,” said Diante Johnson, president of the Black Conservative Federation, who is supporting Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. “Ron DeSantis is not the candidate for Black conservatives and that’s what [he] constantly, constantly exhibits to us.”
...but he supports trumps campaign. They make my brain hurt.
Funny, cause the guy who is responsible for that exact line is a black conservative.
First, they came for...
Here's my version I just made
First they came for the trans kids, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trans kid.
Then they came for all LGBTQ and women, and I did not speak out—
Because I was neither.
Then they came for the POC, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a person of color.
Then they came for me, a non-believer —and there was no one left to speak for me.See, my theory is that the black guys will still be getting the short end of the stick in the US long after the trans and gay stuff is forgotten and normalised.
And the reason I think this is simple. No middle class white republican voters ever got sat down by their teenage kids, only to hear "Mom, dad. I think I might be black..."
I Blame my mother for turning me into a black baby - Tupac
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