BC on the GOP's Wedge

Black Commentator: Pulpits For Sale

According to the newly formed coalition, topping the list of issues that Black Americans need to focus on is the protection of marriage. Never mind the war, access to healthcare, HIV/AIDS, education, housing and social security, the number one problem facing Black America is same-sex marriage.
Black pulpits are for sale to the highest bidder and Black Christians are quite possibly being sold to the GOP under the guise of protecting America's moral values. With claims that gays are "hi-jacking" the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King Jr.'s message, Sheldon is bribing Black pastor after pastor and church after church with check after check to take another look at the GOP and partnering with their white Christian counterparts all while using the Bible as a justification for their commonality. Yes, the same book that was used to justify racism, sexism and anti-Semitism has both Black and white Christian evangelicals reading from the same page.

I love the fearless and fiercely honest reporting of Black Commentator. This particular story is the perfect illustration of the GOP's eerily effective Divide & Conquer strategy. As long as there are people willing to cave in to their most base impulses, the Republican Party will never find itself far from power.