On Both Sides of the Aisle

I must admit, when I go to vote, I vote based on my bank account. Since I'm not a six-figure wage earner, I vote Democratically for most elections. However, that does not mean that I don't listen to and understand Republican view points. Hell, I even like the way they get things done. They have an agenda and they stick to it, regardless.

Republicans are the REAL gannsters. They stick together much closer than any mafia, and are much more organized than the Bloods, Vice Lords, or Crips. They set an agenda and they go after it. Everyone else is either for them or against them. They pull their friends along and reward them handsomely for their loyalty. They run the country like drug empires, with policies benefitting a select few while destroying a whole populace. On top of that, they wrap it up in scripture, I tell you. Now what separates Republicans from vastly organized drug lords?

But seriously, Black people need Republicans as well. We shouldn't be one-party voters. We need people on both side of the aisle to effectively agitate for African American interests. For instance, many struggling African Americans want something done about welfare. It is too easy to fraud the system from state to state, and the laws are not written to favor those who really need the assistance: the elderly. I can already tell you that welfare reform is not something Democrats will touch, not now not ever! Republicans, on the other hand, may just try to reform welfare as an entitlement issue, if they ever get back around to making policy instead of running the country like they are drug lords.

However, Republicans, since Barry Goldwater, have done a horrific job at branding itself as a party for the people. It has been a party of exclusivity. Though African American leaders such as Frederick Douglass and even Dr. King were Republicans at the time of their deaths, we can all agree that their Republican Party is not the same as this new pack of gangsters we see today. These gangsters do not even take their own African American members seriously. How many times have they turned their backs on Chairman Steele, while allowing Rush Limbaugh to say anything he wants? Rush Limbaugh, an entertainer and college dropout, is indeed the de facto leader of the Republican Party.

In the meantime, I will continue to listen to and take into account Republican points of view. I like some of them, and would be willing to support POLICY issues, not the hate-filled rhetoric of exclusivity that I am hearing. African Americans, though we are statistically behind white voters financially, cannot afford to be one-party voters.