I find that I have a mix of emotions about the RNC's choice for new leadership in Michael Steele...for me its partly funny, angering, and just downright frustrating in some cases. Obviously not superficially frustrated at their choice in choosing a blackman, a move that is pretty much obvious and kinda silly but more for their, probable, reasons in doing such. It does however make me feel a bit better about republicans that they would be willing to go down that road, a road that i'm sure in many of their minds was a pretty big no no, and at best a last ditch effort...
Now the question is, did they do it for the right reasons...probably not but lets examine...
Did they just see that the Democrats choose a black guy and they won, so they are copying that? Or that now they have a black man at the head of thier party, the Democrats 'black guy' doesnt really provide them any further advantage...they cancel each other out...(didnt they try this when Obama ran against Alan Keys for the senate spot? didnt it horribly backfire)? Or possibly the most noble of reasons for the choice, they actually want to expand their party to groups, specifically minority groups and bring more people into the fold...a reason that I would say is a great reason to choose someone of that group, similar as if the Catholic church had choose an African or S. American to be their new Pople, trying to get greater foothold into these ever populating and possibly catholic regions...
However I just dont see it as being really the latter choice. BUT Steele runs around and talks like thats his goal and thats his mission, which is great for him. But what really frustrates me and makes me laugh is the way he does it. I really dont know much about the guy from prior to being the head of the RNC, so I'm not sure how he talked or acted before...if its the same then I apologize and I just laugh at the RNC...but if you listen to how he talks, he's literally trying to bring the RNC to the 'hood.' He says words like "swagger" and "son" "get up in their face..." "wack"... What makes this all funny, and I guess my point for this rant and anger is that this is THE RNC'S attempt to COUNTER OBAMA...Obama who basically ran as the most NON "urban" black guy possible...If he had said ANY of the above or even close to it, Fox News, and the RNC would have jumped all over him...you saw how they tried to make the 'fist bump' the 'terrorist hand shake' or some shit like that...its just ridiculous and so obvious how quickly the RNC just turns their boat....
I think this just continues to propagate frustrations I had from the Bush administration...how they would say one thing and 10 minutes/10 weeks later they would be on the other side of the fence without any accountability for being a "flip flopper"....like the whole point of media is to create some sort of accountability and record and have someone call them out on shit like that...and the only people that I saw do this were Jon Stewart, Colbert, and Rachel Maddow on MSNBC (she used to have a really sweet 'lame duck' watch towards the end of bush's term...); sucks that 2 of the 3 are supposed to be kinda like comedic new report shows... We need media to step up, have some balls, not be afraid of getting kicked out of the white house press room and ask some real questions...they should have done it for Bush, and I hope they start for Obama...we choose them and they are accountable to US...so make em sweat, ask hard questions, catch them in double speak, call them OUT when you catch them bullshitting...
in the end, i dont think this guy is staying around too long...and I'm sad cause hes kinda funny in the fact that he doest represent most republicans in any way shape or form, or at least no republicans that I’ve ever really met.. and he is generally detrimental to their movement, which for me as a Democrat and supporter of obama is great...
aight sorry...
anywho, check out the colbert rap battle that he "had" with Steele...Its got a lot of good clips of Steele saying some of the stuff that I mentioned above:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP8_tXtb0Xc
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Steele is a joker. I heard him speak once or twice and couldn't listen anymore. I think the RNC's problem is that they have literally no idea what to do in this type of situation - out of power, and with the country falling apart. It's usually falling apart when they are in power, so this is like, crazy to them.
As a black voter, I feel like I can give some insight here. Black voters (like me (see above)) vote based on which party has the most black politicians in leadership positions. we definitely don't vote on issues, like other voters. we don't really care if the republicans support policies that are incredibly harmful to black communities. nah dogg. show me a black guy on tv. that's all we ask for. now we have a situation in which both major parties have black men in leadership positions. luckily, there's a tiebreaker system in place. which black politicians can use the highest number of forced, completely awkward phrases that they seem to think black people use? so who wins? as black steele would say: the G-O-P, yeah you know me!!!!
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