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Brother of late civil rights activist Medgar Evers endorses Trump

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Charles Evers, the brother of slain civil rights icon Medgar Evers, came out Friday in support of Donald Trump for president.


Himself a civil rights activist who in 1969 became the first black mayor in Mississippi, Evers said the GOP front-runner has the business acumen for the job.

“I see nothing to show he is a racist,” Evers said. “I don’t want any party to assume they’ve got all the black vote.”


The former mayor claimed Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton has done little for the black community and her marriage to Bill Clinton would derail her campaign.
“She got another problem trying keep him straight — how’s she gonna try to keep the country straight?” Evers said.

Brother of late civil rights activist Medgar Evers endorses Trump | New York Post
I like the bolded part, as it's amazing the black vote goes 90% to a party that has been a thorn in their side for 150-years, with the last 50 been a government funded train ride to misery.
 
For Democrats, solving black problems would be like killing the Goose that lays the Golden Eggs. Keeping blacks needy and dependent by prescribing bad solutions for them, is what allows the Democrats to keep reaping dividends from the black vote.
 
For Democrats, solving black problems would be like killing the Goose that lays the Golden Eggs. Keeping blacks needy and dependent by prescribing bad solutions for them, is what allows the Democrats to keep reaping dividends from the black vote.

How are "black problems" different from "white problems"?

What makes you believe blacks are incapable of voting in their own individual interests?
 
How are "black problems" different from "white problems"?

What makes you believe blacks are incapable of voting in their own individual interests?


Blacks have specific socio-economic challenges that take up their attentions, and those causes are nearer and dearer to them, naturally.

The Democrats have targeted them with propaganda that's intended to keep blacks loyal to the Democrats.
Democrats use welfare-statism as an opiate which they've tried to hook blacks onto.
 
Blacks have specific socio-economic challenges that take up their attentions, and those causes are nearer and dearer to them, naturally.

Like what?

The Democrats have targeted them with propaganda that's intended to keep blacks loyal to the Democrats.
Democrats use welfare-statism as an opiate which they've tried to hook blacks onto.

So... what makes you think blacks cannot make decisions in their own interest?
 
I like the bolded part, as it's amazing the black vote goes 90% to a party that has been a thorn in their side for 150-years, with the last 50 been a government funded train ride to misery.

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Very tough to figure out what they could see in the GOP that they don't like.
 
I like the bolded part, as it's amazing the black vote goes 90% to a party that has been a thorn in their side for 150-years, with the last 50 been a government funded train ride to misery.

It seems to me that the well intentioned civil rights measures have been misconcieved and should be restructured away from the traditional Democrat approach.
 
“I see nothing to show he is a racist,” Evers said.

this is interesting for all the clowns on here and in the media who are frothing at the mouth claiming that Trump is Hitler, he's the biggest racist ever, he doesnt denounce the KKK quick enough, bla bla bla

who to believe?
 
For Democrats, solving black problems would be like killing the Goose that lays the Golden Eggs. Keeping blacks needy and dependent by prescribing bad solutions for them, is what allows the Democrats to keep reaping dividends from the black vote.

Exactly. Democrats are like doctors who treat obesity with useless medication and surgery, instead of teaching their patients how to exercise and eat healthy.
 
This completely sinks the "Trump is Racist" ship.
 
This completely sinks the "Trump is Racist" ship.

Wotta joke. The brother of Medgar Evers? His opinion only matters to you because he's black and he's for Trump. When was the last time he said or did anything that you noticed?
Or that anyone else noticed, for that matter. Yeah, this is a real turning point in the campaign, for sure!
 
Exactly. Democrats are like doctors who treat obesity with useless medication and surgery, instead of teaching their patients how to exercise and eat healthy.

most of their obese patients already know how to exercise and eat healthy, they just cant or wont do it
 
This completely sinks the "Trump is Racist" ship.

Yes, you should believe every thing Evers says
. "Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one." ~ Charles Evers
 
Blacks have specific socio-economic challenges that take up their attentions, and those causes are nearer and dearer to them, naturally.

The Democrats have targeted them with propaganda that's intended to keep blacks loyal to the Democrats.
Democrats use welfare-statism as an opiate which they've tried to hook blacks onto.

So unlike us white people, black people are unable to see through this clever plot
 
Yea this makes sense. It doesn't matter what a person says or does as long a black guy says you are good, then you are good. :roll:

It has to be Al Sharpton approved first. He needs his donation for the forgiveness/absolution part of the process.
 
I don't care if MLK himself rises from the grave and endorses Trump.

The guy (Trump) is still a xenophobic, self-serving, delusional, egomaniac whose political ideas are (in part) barbaric, inhumane and represent virtual economic insanity.

Trump would be a horrific POTUS. Sure, some of what he says makes sense. But the ideas that he is wrong on, he is so GALACTICALLY wrong on that they would dwarf any good some of his other ideas might do.


And I am neither Rep not Dem.
 
Blacks have specific socio-economic challenges that take up their attentions, and those causes are nearer and dearer to them, naturally.

The Democrats have targeted them with propaganda that's intended to keep blacks loyal to the Democrats.
Democrats use welfare-statism as an opiate which they've tried to hook blacks onto.

No. White people living in poverty, hispanics, asians, and black people all face very similar socio-economic challenges and support many of the same causes. Many people refuse to see it but poverty is color blind. White, black, brown, yellow or whatever, when you are poor, most people just see a piece of ****. It isn't that democrats target blacks with propaganda to keep them loyal they target those in poverty. Ignorant ass people choose to believe poor people means black people. The reason democrats appeal to those in poverty doesn't have as much to do with free stuff (like republicans love to spew every chance they get) as it does respect. And it isn't even that the democrats are so respectful to those in poverty, because they really aren't. But rather the republicans are so damn disrespectful that anything seems respectful by comparison. And as more and more in this country are living in poverty, or very near to poverty, the more the country is going to continue moving to the left.
 
Very tough to figure out what they could see in the GOP that they don't like.

Yeah, who wants to follow people that say "You aren't stupid, you can succeed, you aren't unable to make the right choices, you aren't so helpless you cannot get a free ID care to vote, you don't need AA just put for the effort and you can get far."

MUCH better to hear "You're poor cause of rich white people, we'll take their money and give it to, you can't figure out an ID card, let us take care of you, you can't feed or house yourselves without us, you'll never get anywhere unless WE help you!"

I can so see the DNC draw for minorities /rme
 
How are "black problems" different from "white problems"?

What makes you believe blacks are incapable of voting in their own individual interests?

Uh, I don't know, perhaps because they vote in lockstep, unlike other racial groups?
 
Yeah, who wants to follow people that say "You aren't stupid, you can succeed, you aren't unable to make the right choices, you aren't so helpless you cannot get a free ID care to vote, you don't need AA just put for the effort and you can get far."

MUCH better to hear "You're poor cause of rich white people, we'll take their money and give it to, you can't figure out an ID card, let us take care of you, you can't feed or house yourselves without us, you'll never get anywhere unless WE help you!"

I can so see the DNC draw for minorities /rme

Perhaps its the tone deafness that's led you to believe "minority," "poor," and "unsuccessful" are synonyms that's contributing to your confusion.
 
For Democrats, solving black problems would be like killing the Goose that lays the Golden Eggs. Keeping blacks needy and dependent by prescribing bad solutions for them, is what allows the Democrats to keep reaping dividends from the black vote.

I'm so tired of reading foolish statements like this. So, let's try to replace fiction with facts. Below is a graphic of unemployment rates for Blacks and Whites in America from 1972 thru 2011. Pay close attention; you're about to learn something here. Notice that except for 1973 and 2008, unemployment for Blacks were at their lowest under Democrat presidencies.

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So, when you say "solving black problems" you have the problem solving in the wrong context. As a Black man, I don't expect government to solve my problems for me. But I DO expect government to help create the conditions whereby the biggest problem any of us have - finding meaningful, sustainable work to at least meet my basic survival needs - IS solved. That's the thing guys like you don't get.

You complain about "redistribution of wealth" in the form of entitlement programs, but you never look at the statistics that show beyond a shadow of a doubt that those entitlements and, thus, that wealth redistribution for many Blacks was necessary due to such consistently high unemployment that always seem to reach their peaks when a Republican is in the White House. By the way, is very inconsistent with the Party's mantra of "the only way to defeat poverty is with private sector job growth". Well, jobs for whom?

Look at the chart.

Jobs for whom, sir?

As for the voter loyalty aspect you attribute to Blacks to the Democrat Party, I posted the following in another thread recently (slightly modified to more clearly address the charge levied):

The great mystery as to why minorities (Blacks) now tend to vote as a block for Democrats than for Republicans: survival and problem solving.

You see, during the age of Lincoln, the Republican Party did the Negro one helluva solid by emancipating the slaves. But they failed in one regard: They didn't seek to educate the Black man nor did the Party seek to put forward any means whereby the freed slave could see employment beyond the plantation. They expected that such things would occur naturally. But it didn't nor could it. Fast-forward to present day and many White people still fail to realize that despite the "government handout" in the form of social entitlements, those handouts wouldn't be necessary if the unemployment rate for Blacks more equaled that of our White counterparts.

Notice, too, that per the last line of the above quote, the ONLY time the unemployment rate for Blacks and White were nearly identical was from 2007-2009. One brief time in 50 years!

So, when the Republican Party starts practicing what they preach and help create the conditions whereby Blacks and White can find decent work that will subsequently afford them to pay for a quality education for the next generation or two so that we, as a people, can begin to lift ourselves out of poverty, then we'll stop looking to the Democrat Party to "solve Black problems". Because the Republican Party by the numbers don't seem to be doing much of anything for us. Hell, they don't even act like they want us as evidenced by your very commentary.
 
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Perhaps its the tone deafness that's led you to believe "minority," "poor," and "unsuccessful" are synonyms that's contributing to your confusion.

I dont, yall are the ones that think we need race based programs, claim voter id laws would affect minorities .. I could go on for HOURS
 
Like what?

So... what makes you think blacks cannot make decisions in their own interest?
I thought that everyone knew this stuff. Due to discriminatory practices blacks were largely kept poor by lack of access to quality education, credit, good housing, good role models, wealth/savings (being poor is very expensive) etc. for many years prior to 1965 or so. After that time, I believe that FDR's comments in the 1935 SOTU address were prophetic:
The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole our relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of a sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America.
Programs that encouraged the break up of families and reliance on aid (relief) helped destroy initiative. And the constant cry of racism gave blacks an easy out and allowed them to escape blame. Of course, many blacks did succeed but many did not. Something must account for this issue of why so many blacks became so successful over the past 50 years and so many did not.
 
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