I'm not a republican. I think the RNC was depressing because every speaker that took the stage before Romney's speech was a better candidate.
Being anti-democrat is not the same as being republican. There's a distinction you need an IQ to get. get it?
I don't suggest anyone vote for any republican, including Romney. I want the election to be close because I don't want anyone claiming some sort of mandate. And I want divided government. Use that IQ! I grew up in Chicago, a Democratic Party Machine town. Mayors won elections 80%-20% if they were Democrat, but if they were Democrat and black they won 51-49. Democrats can be proud of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrini–Green And this: http://humanrights.uchicago.edu/chicagotorture/ And this: http://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-muckrakers/2012/09/cps-reform/ But yeah, the bumper sticker is proof positive republicans are racist and democrats aren't. Use your IQ.
How many IQ points does it take to equate that both the Republican and Democratic parties have evolved since you were a kid in Chicago? Both for the good and the bad. I know there's plenty of Confederate flag flying hillbillies down South that are Obama supporters. They just don't want to admit it.
Denny, did you know Robert Taylor (developer of the lovely Robert Taylor Homes) was Valerie Jarrett's grandfather?
Have you ever lived in Chicago? It's the most racist town in which I've ever lived. When Martin Luther King marched down Pulaski Ave, he commented to Ralph Abernathy that if the KKK were smart, they'd bring some Chicagoans down to Mississippi to teach Southerners how to hate.
I lived in Chicago twice. In summer of 89' and the autumn of 93'.....Or, wait it might have been the spring of 95'. Hard to be certain. But, I'm sure both of us weren't there when Martin Luther King was marching 50 years ago.
Chicago is a NORTHERN city, not some town full of bigots in the heart of dixie. The police torture instances happend 20 years after I was a kid in Chicago. Yeah, it evolved. Chicago isn't unique. Segregation through social and civic planning (build a freeway to separate people of color from the richest suburb in the nation): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Palo_Alto,_California About half of East Palo Alto's residents were African Americans in 1990, largely due to redlining practices in Palo Alto [5]. Latinos now constitute about 65% of the total population, while the proportion of African Americans has decreased to about 15%. A small minority of Pacific Islander population also resides in East Palo Alto, mostly Tongans with some Samoans and Fijians[citation needed]. East Palo Alto has the largest concentration of Pacific Islanders of any U.S. city or town outside of Hawaii[citation needed]. In the past, East Palo Alto experienced profound crime and poverty, especially during the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1992, it had the highest homicide rate in the country with 24,322 people, and 42 murders, equaling a rate of 172.7 homicides per 100,000 residents.[6] Since then the city's crime problems have subsided, and the murder rate in particular has declined to a typical urban level. In 2006, East Palo Alto experienced a comparatively low 6 murders. There were 7 murders in 2007, and only 5 in 2008. According to a 2008 report provided by Chief of Police Ron Davis, violence is on the decline. Davis reports an overall 42% reduction in homicides and a 20% reduction in overall crime between 2006–2008, compared to the previous three years. The prosperity that benefited the Silicon Valley during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s largely bypassed East Palo Alto. The Ravenswood City School District, which serves East Palo Alto and part of adjoining Menlo Park, has struggled with low academic performance.[citation needed] Eventually, however, the Peninsula's shortage of land and soaring property prices meant that even East Palo Alto became an option for urban regeneration. Until recently, gentrification has been rare in East Palo Alto. East Palo Alto was depicted in the 1995 film Dangerous Minds, which was based on the experiences of a Carlmont High School teacher and her experiences with bused-in students from East Palo Alto.
I was there when King marched 50 years ago. I lived on the south side, predominantly black neighborhoods (where Obama's house is now, in fact) in 1968 when King was shot. Scary time to be a white person there. It was also the year of the riots at the DNC and when RFK was shot. BTW, if the people in the parties have somehow switched since the late 1960s, then that would make Bobby and John Kennedy today's republicans. Use that IQ.
In what neighborhood in Chicago? Let's see what you know. As for whether or not I was alive, there are these items called books. They have information in them, not kryptonite, so you needn't be so afraid of them. You may actually learn something.
Denny, where was your house? I lived at 55th and Dorchester in Hyde Park. President Obama lives around 50th and Greenwood, IIRC.
No shit Sherlock. The origin of the argument in this thread you were trying to make is that there is not a large number of racists in the Republican party.
