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Let me see who the real thinkers are.

In reply to black

To keep Donald Trump "quiet".

Watch how the honeymoon ends as soon as the Donald's popularity wanes to a manageable level.

In reply to Drapsey

So why not Jeb or Cruz or Rubio?

In reply to black

You can answer your own question by looking at your own thread title.

If you can't, I'll give you a hint.

There's nothing to choose among those three.

In reply to Drapsey

Why not? Cruz got elected with Tea Party support.

In reply to black

In Republican circles, a black must deny himself by first denying other blacks in order to become acceptable in the party.

Think deeply about that.

For some help.

First you have to understand who the modern Republican party is. The present day Republican party is the old Democratic party of the south. It constitutes and is now dominated by either the old racists or the racist thinking of that element in the old Democratic party who resisted change and continue to resist change.

Many such people left the Democratic Party and, that switch in party affiliation, is expressed as some badge of honor in which you often hear them say "I used to be a Democrat", as if being a Democrat is bad.

No, it's because the Democratic party wanted change and to be more inclusive, but elements within it resisted aspects of the change and moved to the Republican party. The Republican party was also changing. But it changed from the party of Lincoln to the party of primarily whites who wanted to maintain total political and economic control for the white majority. They wanted things to remain as they were. That's still the attitude today, when they say they "want their country back" But back to what? To when?

As for most blacks who were primarily part of the party of Lincoln from the time of Reconstruction, they also started to shift their allegiance.

Some blacks - a very smaller number - as if caught up in a time warp, remained steadfast to the Republican party, believing it to be the party they had always thought it to be. Naturally, they have had to adapt to the changing Republican party and adopt some of the same policies and attitudes of the majority white Republican party to feel accepted. So you have the likes of a Ben Carson.

Ben Carson and other blacks like him, would always remain popular within the Republican party only if they are prepared to say the kinds of things and make the usual criticisms whites often direct towards blacks, especially those who want full inclusion and equal rights and similar opportunities as whites.

Why the GOP is and will continue to be the party of white people

In reply to ProWI
Agree

Could possibly be a "coconut".

In reply to ProWI

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Brilliant!

I was hoping this thread would drag on a little longer.

The rest of your post is on the money also.

In reply to ProWI

The "outsider" factor is also helpful

In reply to black

For the same reason those on the right hate African Americans

In reply to ProWI

Your analysis is mostly correct however it is stuck in the paradigm/polarity of whiteness and blackness. This is a never ending cycle that masks the critical issues at play- land, power & control.

Africa is a continent that largely remains in the hands of Africans, but that hold is tenuous. The Caribbean and many parts of the Americas are in the hands of Africans who have been accultured into blackness, hence they can be remote controlled by white power brokers of culture, education, finances, etc.

In this way Ben Carson doesn't represent a "good" black. He simply represents the fulfillment of what BLACK should be, as opposed to WHITE.

Never forget that during slavery, the most prized slave was described as loyal, hard-working, non-threatening & faithful.

Ben Carson is a Black man, as are posters like Black, but when will he and others recognize and hopefully defend their inner African?

In reply to Khary9
What you mean, Ben Carson is like Samuel Jackson in Django?