I hate to be so blunt, but now you really see.
They do pay handsomely in both power and money to African-Americans who are corrupt enough to be Loyal Bushies and doubly so if they are Inner Circle.
Ask Ken Blackwell, the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, and Armstrong Williams (to name but a few) to tell you how well they are taken care of by "Sean Hannity's money". This is a little hyperbole in two of the three cases, but some research into the odious Rev. Peterson will show that he does indeed suckle at the teat of Sean Hannity's Lucre,through a Front Group of "African-Americans", who's Board is 12 white guys and a token African-American.
Look it up and see if I am lying. As a formerly Republican African-American, you should take a good long, deep look at the company you so recently kept, whether you even knew at the time or not.
Here, allow me to get you started:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Jesse+Lee+Peterson%22+HannityFollow the money (as always). It has nothing to do with that Jesse is Hannity's "pastor" (yeah, right) but with the BOND front group which either directly or one layer behind it lies the board of 12 white guys and token Jesse gathering in all of Bushie Whitey's Payoff Laundered Lucre (or perhaps one of his cronies, it has been awhile since I have uncovered and looked at the disgusting Mr. Peterson's bio, so I may be off in a few minor details, but I will stand behind the overall story being TRUE TRUE TRUE).
I am sorry to be so harsh with you, and I am glad you have woken up. But where the hell were YOU? I am a white guy myself and it was quite plain as the nose on your face for DECADES.
You were a chicken voting for Col. Sanders. A turkey voting for the Thanksgiving Dinner...and YOU'RE for dinner (all the rest of us bottom 90% of the country, too, so you're far from alone), but you ARE mostly alone in being a member of a group of people who, from your own heritage, should have been able to see the spiritual descendants of your slavemasters rapidly bringing the Republican Party to heel and taking it over.
It took decades and you just now noticed???? :wtf:
For more than 20 and even 30 years, it has been obvious to anyone with a pair of eyes that the Party of Lincoln has become the Party of Lee.
AND YOU JUST NOW NOTICED?
I'm sorry, but I am pissed. Glad you woke up. Better late than never and all that, but damn.
Ronnie Reagan started it when he went to Philadelphia, MS to kick off his campaign in 1980, with a long speech (wink, wink) about states' rights (wink wink) to the all-white crowd. Really, Nixon started it with his "Southern Strategy".
Know what Philadelphia, Mississippi is known for? The ONLY thing it is known for outside of Neshoba County, that doesn't involve produce or consumer goods?
I could link you to the history, but that can be such dry reading. Hollywood did a mostly accurate version of the real history of THE ONLY THING Philadelphia, Mississippi is nationally known for.
Where your hero Ronnie Reagan kicked off his 1980 campaign (wink wink):
http://www.amazon.com/Mississippi-Burning-Gene-Hackman/dp/B000059TFO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1225710939&sr=8-1And YOU JUST NOW noticed?
That would be like a Jew supporting Hitler right up until the evening of Kristallnacht, wouldn't it?
I'm sorry. On this historic election eve where we're very likely are to have our first African-American President, I cannot keep silent and be politically correct or "nice" to you, though I probably should.
Instead, I have the incredible urge to ask you if you have ALWAYS been the last to figure obvious stuff out or is this a more recent change for you?
You ought to be asahmed of your clueless self. And you've got a lot of atoning to do. Not to me, not to anyone, but to your own self and your own conscience for what you have allowed yourself to be a tool for these past 28 years.
They shed the funny hats, put on business suits, joined the Republican Party, but they are still, at bottom:
They may disenfranchise you African-Americans by the hundreds of thousands with computers instead of with lynchropes and arson, but the intent and result is just the same, only with less blood and death.
Glad you finally woke up. Now, get off your ass and make resitution to your conscience. Only you can decide if and how that should be done.