Since Election Day (and well before it, truth be told), Republican commentators have declared the need to intensify their \u201coutreach\u201d efforts to racial minorities.<\/p>\n
Thus, from Charles Krauthammer to Sean Hannity, amnesty for the 10 to 12 million or so Hispanic immigrants who live illegally within the United States is now the cause de jure for \u201cthe loyal opposition.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the interest of altering the GOP\u2019s lily white image, I offer some suggestions.<\/p>\n
(1). Given that its party is<\/em> a virtual oasis of whiteness, the Republican leadership and its media allies should inform its base of supporters that they are no longer welcome in the GOP.\u00a0 It is the overwhelming concentration of whites in the latter that fuels the perception on the part of non-whites that the party is \u201cracist.\u201d\u00a0 It is this perception, in turn, that accounts in no small measure for why non-whites gravitate in massive numbers to the other national party.<\/p>\n However, if whites are to leave the GOP en masse, then it must render itself as undesirable as possible to this constituency.\u00a0 This, of course, means that it must radically alter its party platform\u2014both its rhetoric and its policies.\u00a0<\/p>\n White evangelical Christians, for example, flock to the GOP because of its affirmative stance on the questions of life, traditional marriage, and religious freedom.\u00a0 All of this must now change. The surest way of repelling this bloc from its ranks is for the party of Lincoln to give enthusiastic support to abortion-on-demand, gay marriage, Obamacare, and the like. A not inconsiderable number of white working class Catholics, we can rest assured, will soon follow suit<\/p>\n This is how Republicans can rid themselves of \u201csocially conservative\u201d whites.\u00a0 Fiscally conservative whites, on the other hand, require a different approach.<\/p>\n If the Republican Party is to wash its hands once and for all\u00a0of those whites from the middle and upper classes who are attracted to its business-friendly policies, then all that it has to do is abandon those policies.\u00a0 <\/em>Republicans should declare war on millionaires and billionaires by demanding that they pay their fair share of taxes.\u00a0 However much the Democrats want to tax the wealthy, Republicans should up the ante.\u00a0 Not only will this strategy insure that the Republican Party becomes less white, it is a stone that will drop another bird as it deflates the perception\u2014pervasive among minorities\u2014that it is a party of fabulously rich, exploitative, oppressive white businessmen.<\/p>\n (2). Republicans must <\/em>give up their relentless support for the bombing of non-white Muslims in the Middle East.\u00a0 George W. Bush\u2019s \u201cFreedom Agenda\u201d resulted in unmitigated chaos and destruction for untold numbers of people of color.\u00a0 His \u201chard line\u201d stance on the issue of \u201cIslamism\u201d has provoked legions of people of color right here at home to recoil from the GOP.\u00a0<\/p>\n But not only should Republicans resolutely refuse to comply with any more wars waged on Middle Eastern lands.\u00a0 They should just as passionately encourage lots and lots of immigration from the Islamic world.\u00a0<\/p>\n Most Muslims are people of color, so in demanding a flood of Muslim immigrants, Republicans can prove to America that they aren\u2019t racist.\u00a0 And because Muslims aren\u2019t Christian\u2014because, that is, most Republicans aren\u2019t Islamic\u2014Republicans can also prove that they aren\u2019t guilty of any religious bigotry toward Muslims (Another two-for-one!).<\/p>\n There is yet another benefit to be had from massive Islamic immigration courtesy of Republicans: with their strong family values, piety, and work ethic, Muslims are ripe to swell the ranks of the GOP!<\/p>\n A cautionary note is in order here: in welcoming Islamic immigrants or immigrants of any other kind, Republicans should embrace them without qualification.\u00a0 Translation: reject the concept of assimilation.\u00a0 <\/em>The latter is thought to be but a subtle form of imperialism, for in demanding of immigrants that they assimilate, it has been argued that we demand of them that they shed their ways and accept ours\u2014or else. Republicans should seek to accommodate, <\/em>not assimilate, immigrants.<\/p>\n (3). Republicans must begin to bear in mind that all of their pro-America talk is seen by non-whites as racist code language.\u00a0 This means that appeals to the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and even the American flag, offend the sensibilities of non-whites generally, blacks and Native Americans especially.\u00a0<\/p>\n Consider that the country\u2019s founding documents were composed exclusively by white men, many of whom owned blacks as slaves (The Constitutional Convention was whiter than a Tea Party rally!).\u00a0 All of them harbored views on race that no remotely respectable person today could even think about countenancing.\u00a0 And under the American flag countless Native Americans were displaced from their homes and\/or slaughtered while countless more Africans were wrenched from their lands and brought to North America for a life of toil and bondage.<\/p>\n John McCain was off to a good start some years ago when he spoke out against the Confederate flag waving at the Capital building in Charleston, South Carolina.\u00a0 But Republicans must now speak out against the American flag, for its connotations for racial minorities are no less egregious than are those associated with the Confederate flag.\u00a0<\/p>\n Republicans should become the new flag burners.\u00a0 They should also spare no occasion to make a show of tearing to shreds copies of our racist Constitution and Declaration.<\/p>\n (4). Republicans should stop talking about America as a \u201cJudeo-Christian\u201d country.\u00a0 At least they should stop emphasizing its Christian <\/em>heritage.\u00a0 This, in turn, implies that they should insist even more forcefully than their rivals upon \u201cthe separation\u201d of church and state\u2014and, preferably, the separation, as much as possible, between church and culture<\/em>. \u00a0<\/p>\n For two millennia, Christianity was the religion of European civilization.\u00a0 In other words, it was first and predominantly the religion of whites.\u00a0 In describing America as a Christian nation, or in speaking approvingly of Christianity, Republicans are all too easily seen by non-whites as, once again, speaking in racist code.<\/p>\n (5). When this is all said and finished, Republicans should proclaim the death of their party\u2014and the death of America.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since Election Day (and well before it, truth be told), Republican commentators have declared the need to intensify their \u201coutreach\u201d efforts to racial minorities. Thus, from Charles Krauthammer to Sean Hannity, amnesty for the 10 to 12 million or so Hispanic immigrants who live illegally within the United States is now the cause de jure…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n