Sometimes, a headline alone is enough to make you giggle.

For example, take the following headline: Poll: GOP success with black voters in doubt. They actually took a poll to tell them that the Republican Party is not loved by black folks, in general. They could have paid me half of what they paid the polling company and I could have given them this news. Now, it’s not like we have some great love for Democrats but, at least when the campaigns heat up, they, generally, don’t call in the most base of racist fear to drive people to the polls, like the anti-Harold Ford ads in Tennessee or the anti-Deval Patrick ad in Massachussets.

Furthermore, Republicans in power, by and large, treat black folks like society’s leeches to stir up support against affirmative action and programs like “Head Start”, so that every accomplishment a black person makes in this country has them scrutinized. In other words, there is an inference that black achievement is meritless and solely based on “special treatment” (but, I guess people like George Bush and Paris Hilton made it solely on their own?). Also, these explains why the current administration got a “pass” from it’s own constituency, so to speak over the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Because, in the overwhelmingly white & affluent world of Republicans, no people are too poor to be able to throw their belongings in the SUV and, at least, put the family up in a hotel until the storm blows over. The Republican mind set doesn’t understand that black people have an unemployment rate nearly twice that of whites and it has nothing to do with laziness or a desire to live the life of luxury that they believe welfare affords. It may be a lack of education, it may be a lack of access and, even in some cases, it may be that, when your name is “DeAundre” or “Shameika”, your resume somehow ends up in the day’s trash.

To put it plainly: y’all just don’t get it.

Lately, I have come to a conclusion about the relationship between the Republican party and black folks. They act like the immature high school boy who wants affection from a young women. Follow me here. If she doesn’t go for his advances right away, rather than finding a better approach to win her over, he instead calls her names and spreads false rumors about her. So, instead of wooing her to him, he ends up pushing her away and, unless he takes some drastic corrective action, he may never gain her affections.

How about this? You want my vote? Try earning it. Quit sending hand-picked negroes to me, telling me how stupid I am for not voting Republican. Quit playing to racist fears that perpetuate myths and lies about the overwhelming majority of black folks And, finally, quit treating me like I don’t have a brain in my head. Come with a real plan and we can talk.

Until then, I’ll continue to spurn your hollow overtures and take my vote elsewhere.

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