welcome back Ras

Thank you Msharmony, always enjoy reading your post.

Wrong as usual, The Panthers along with many grassroot activist groups actually created jobs and some businesses to fill in for the many companies who left the country for a cheaper labor force. With this said my post was more in reference to this thread in which the Panthers did not exist yet. Its always best to speak of a subject from a factual or historical perpective, rather than a racial mindset.

You left out the part about the Democrats pretending to represent the poor to keep them voting Democrat.

But they don't really represent the poor, only the leeches looking for free stuff. And for that they do a good job of entrapping the poor and pulling the middle class down toward the bottom with the moochers.

I didn't ask a question. Please revise comprehension.

Really, nothing wrong with comprehension from this end.

Neither Lincoln nor Eisenhower were liberal.

All this Democrat and Republican BS is really tearing this country apart. But hey Divide and Conquer I guess.

Really has nothing to do with tearing this country apart, that happens in the background. The illusion of choice is the foreground. And the parties work very hard to make the same appear different.

When this ol hick from the sticks first moved to the deep south the first question I was asked was "You a racist?" Which I answered with,a "Naw, I ain't really fast enough". On the other hand I'm no apologist. I didn't have anything to do with any of that business and neither did anyone else alive on this planet. History is valuable in that it allows you to learn what doesn't work. It's interesting to learn where you came from. However, it should not be used for propagandizing and inciting. You keep picking a scab and the wound takes forever to heal. All I know is that if you want to weaken people, the first thing you do is make them completely dependent on you. Then you turn them on each so they have neither the time, nor the energy, to fight with you. "Social" programs aren't in place to help anyone, they are in place to repress.

THINK! Haven't we all been having this same conversation no matter which political faction ruled the land?

i agree, thats the democrats party call... give the poor enough to get there votes...

Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have rejoiced in their loss of freedom who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious. Cicero

people will always choose their interests, and most choose to register in one party or another but that doesn't require them to only vote for that party

as a dem, I have voted for more than democrats in my lifetime,,its hard to put people neatly in one box or the other so most stereotypes are only stereotypes, politically speaking

however, what candidates do and say at the federal level is important to how people will vote, and many blacks and other minorities , observing the behaviors and attitudes of those in the republican party, find no reason to believe they support their interests or needs

on the lilly ledbetter fair pay act, for example, only 3 house republicans and 5 senate republicans supported it

and many more examples of rhetoric from their politicians that point at them being 'for' no one , except themselves and others in their socioeconomic class,,,



as far as the scab theory, I have heard many others,

you cant put a band aid on a broken leg,, and expect it to heal

you cant take an aspirin for cancer,,,etc,,

our racial history/divide is an ongoing and historic problem because it is tied to our socioeconomic condition, but its easy to see the appeal of ignoring it and hoping it will go away without discussion that LEADS TO ACTION.

without change,,,