All I'm saying is that a person should not be hired based on their color or "equal opportunity" crap. They should be hired because they are good at their job. Is that so wrong?
I'm not trying to pick on you, man, it's just your sentiments are fairly typical from what I've heard from many Republicans. And like most Republicans you don't seem to understand how much minority voters are (justifiably) turned off by it. It's not a matter of terminology or repackaging this message like Michael Steele naively believes, it's about just catching a clue. Your post is indicative of the general Republican misconception that discrimination in employment, housing, etc. mostly disappeared along with segregated water fountains 40 years ago. While paying bare lip service to the fact discrimination still "exists" (kinda like the Siberian Tiger "exists"--damned rare and disappearing quickly) and is a bad thing, the GOP's main focus is that essentially any civil rights legislation is bad because it threatens white people.
Bottom line: As long as the GOP considers any civil rights legislation as "pandering" on "equal opportunity crap", it will never get more than a sliver of the minority vote.
Nor should it.
This.
It's not like minorities are blindly voting for Democrats. A Republican who is moderate on immigration issues, like GWB, could get 40% of the Hispanic vote. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Asians are not overwhelmingly Democratic, maybe 60-40. African Americans are actually very conservative on social issues, but the GOP's rhetoric just pushes them away.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/112807/blacks-conservative-republicans-some-moral-issues.aspx
