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This is Joe Biden, so saying racially insensitive, or downright stupid, things is par for the course. He does it so regularly...

What I find sad about all this is the political and racial double-standard that exists. You know there'd be all sorts of outrage if a white Republican said, "They're going to put ya'll back in chains" to a largely black audience in a mostly black city of the south. Strangely, no one gives a shit because, "It's a metaphor"... or, because the campaign of the black President, or the media outlets and groups which clearly support said President, get's a free pass on racial issues.

PS: I don't get why you guys think Romney is so evil but I guess those laughs would be best for another thread...

It's not racially offensive. If you told a Jewish audience "they want to bring back the pogroms" you might be accused of being classless, but not offensive.

That said, Biden is a loose cannon. I respect him for that, though. Better than Obama or most people in politics. It's honesty by other means - someone willing to speak their mind on the spot even if it's not what some would like to hear.

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No there wouldn't, mainly because a white Republican would probably never be speaking to large amounts of black people.

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sensationalism appeals to the same personality types as religion. you think you chose to be a republican or democrat? it was predestined by your brain chemistry. i just shattered your entire universe.

No kidding. With how much racism is embedded in the history of the Democratic party, and how the Republicans fought to end slavery and protect the civil rights of black America by denouncing the racism, you'd think black America would be more receptive to the Republican platform. Instead, they cling to this idea that they're not equal to whites and they remain slaves to the Democrats.

Fantastic job holdin' them negros down, Mas'a Mayo. You dun real good keepin' with that narrative, Mas'a.

I acknowledge the double standard that exists. Whether you feel what he said was offensive or not, the media would jump all over this if a Republican said it.

Brawlsack

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are you seriously comparing political platforms separated by almost 400 years?

No. Because the Civil War wasn't 400 years ago. Hell, we weren't even a country 400 years ago...

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400 years is a little (alot) much.

But I understand that was probably exaggeration for effect.

Stop posting when I'm posting. Otherwise I have to quote huge quotes or dissect them.

Fine, 150 years; and the question is still valid because the Republicans of the mid 19th century held views that are pretty much polar opposites of their contemporaries. Republicans of the 1860s would be much more at home with the policies of the Democrats, but that's not all encompassing nor entirely accurate as their views were limited and bound up in the politics and issues of their time.

I do believe there is unfortunately some truth to the idea that the Democratic party profits at the expense of disenfranchised minorities. In all honesty, Republicans and Democrats profit from this. An uneducated lower class means you have an endless supply of cheap labor. A victim mentality (even if it's true, which it is) offers Democrats a platform to promise the impossible every 4 years.

This is what people are saying when they say the two parties are the same. Their policies are different, their interests are the same.

Brawlsack

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Black people have it really hard(so they tell me) and almost 100% of them vote democrat.

What reason would democrats have to change anything for them?

Seriously though, republicans hate black people? See GW Bush's contributions to africa/aids. Is this a recent enough example or is he still to hated to have done anything right ever?

Republicans love black people, because it's easy to control and manipulate them and obtain cheap labor as a result. Africa/AIDS is one small part of the equation. It's a smokescreen, it's the political equivalent of 'See, look I'm not racist I have lot's of black friends.'

Brawlsack

Taking an extended hiatus from gaming

Republicans like black people because they're cheap labor? Republicans like any form of cheap labor and that doesn't fall along colored lines. That's just part of market capitalism... if a market/company values the labor of an individual at $X/hr (based on workmanship, demand, education, etc.), and if the consumer is willing to buy the product of that labor at a reasonable price, then that's the set price. Democratic policies going back to The New Deal have slowly been undermining that price with Unions and the expansion of social/entitlement programs, making it harder for market capitalism to work because various social 'safety nets' have been set up.

All in all, this is just the newest way the Democrat party enslaves minorities. If the Democrats keep telling minorities that they're inferior to white people, and that if the only equalizer is to somehow tip the scales in the minorities favor, then the minorities will continue to buy into that notion. They're being told that they can't do as well as a white person, but I disagree. I think minorities are just as capable of doing as well, or as bad as, any white person but because Democrats keep telling them differently -- they often times don't. I guess I subscribe more to the "equal opportunity but not equal outcomes" message, rather than the message of "shared prosperity" and "yes we can."

Edit: There are other issues for minorities flocking to their slave holding Democrats, like poverty, erosion of family, lack of personal responsibility and others... but I think the point I was making is that the Democrats advocate policy and programs which create a 'safe haven' for that type of activity.