Take a good look at the picture....

[kpete]

Take a good look at the picture above. That is a meeting at one of the two major political parties. Notice anything peculiar? Yes, everyone is white, but that shouldn't be shocking. That would be the case at an Idaho Democratic officials meeting. But this photo wasn't taken in Idaho. This is a picture of former Senator Fred Thompson delivering the keynote speech at the 2007 Mississippi Republican Elected Officials Tribute Dinner. Mississippi, the state that has the highest proportion of Black Americans of any state in the country. This photograph is a snapshot of a party that has a big problem.

MORE: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/12/26/930894/-Barbour-furor-obscures-GOP-problem-with-people-of-color

[fascisthunter]

1. and they are all upperclass, not poor or middleclass

[Little Star]

7. I agree. To me it screams Classism......

Wonder what the equivalent Democratic Party picture would look like.

More and more every day I believe there is us and then there is them.

[ZombieHorde]

2. Recommended. nt

[LeftinOH]

3. The people who set up the tables and served the meals were probably African-Americans;

I'm sure the attendees didn't see any problem at all.

[HopeHoops]

4. From THEIR perspective, there's no problem at all.

A "problem" would be a black person who wasn't in a server's uniform.

The Grand Ol' White People's Party.

[Doctor_J]

5. After what happened on Nov 2, how can you say that the repukes have a problem?

Please come back from your river in Egypt. we need all Dems to confront reality.

[emcguffie]

10. Elections these days cannot be trusted.

Would you trust an ATM that would not provide you with a receipt? Yes, that's been said a lot, but it remains true. There is no way to confirm election results on many if not most of today's voting machines.

There's a built-in theft of about 6 percent these days, I believe.

[Doctor_J]

12. Which does not address my question

WTF makes anyone think that the Repukes have a problem?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

15. Please describe in further detail the reality that needs confrontation.

[SoCalDem]

6. They have no problem.. They have rejected the "darker" people

For decades they have pretended to want to include people, but with a black man in the white house, they can now finally embrace their racism & call it "plain ole presidential criticism", but the "darker people" are a lot smarter than republicans gave them credit for being, and refuse to vote for them.

Now they are free to get back to the exclusionary politics they know and love.. white folks only (except for the few tokens they still have hanging around...they are needed to push out in front of a tv camera)


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[Raschel]

8. They want their America back.

[unblock]

9. for them, it's a selling point.

they want their very few committed blacks front and center, like clarence thomas, just enough to "prove" that they're not actually racist, in the "see, some of my best friends are black" spirit.

it's a big tent, big enough for both overt racists and racists who don't feel comfortable with the "overt" adjective.

[newtothegame]

11. Sorry, but disagree with the entire premise of the post, and seriously think we as a party...

need to move past this obsession with race as THE primary factor in political representation. We are WAY too diverse of a country in 2010 to be believing that race should be the qualifying factor on whether or not a person is a good representative for you.

Is Michael Jordan, a billionaire who blows millions on gambling, a good representative for a poor, single African-American mother because their skin tones are similar? My mom fit all of these criteria earlier in her life and I'd have rather had a white representative who came from similar circumstances ANY day than electing someone whose only commonality with my mom was skin color.

We need to focus on experience. Single mothers. People with AIDS. Cancer patients. Orphans. Those experiences will allow them to truly represent the diversity of America, not the fact that their ancestors from millenia ago happened to be from the same place as mine.

[donheld]

13. k & R

[lonestarnot]

14. Yep, that would be the party for and all the rich old white fucks.

[Canuckistanian]

16. It's a very simple and eloquent point

The party that rules Mississippi actively excludes 38% of it's residents.

Source:

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmcensus1.html

38%
Percentage of Mississippi's population that is black, highest of any state. Blacks also make up more than a quarter of the population in Louisiana (32 percent), Georgia (31 percent), Maryland (30 percent), South Carolina (29 percent) and Alabama (27 percent). They comprise 56 percent of the population in the District of Columbia.

Read more: African American Demographics, Population, Incomes, Veterans, Education, Voting — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmcensus1.html#ixzz19NPgHHs0