Has Baganda supported the movement or they are just a bunch of used people?
Em
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> The baganda have supported the Movement for the last 20 years. All they
got for it was Museveni abusing their Kabaka and trashing Mmengo is becoming
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> Swallowing the Elephant
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> September 19, 2004
> By HENRY LOUIS GATES Jr.
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> The moment when the Republican Party lost black America can
> be given a date: Oct. 26, 1960. Martin Luther King Jr.,
> arrested in Georgia during a sit-in, had been transferred
> to a maximum-security prison and sentenced to four months
> on the chain gang, without bail. As The Times reported,
> John F. Kennedy called Coretta King, expressing his
> concern. Richard Nixon didn't.
>
> "It took courage to call my daughter-in-law at a time like
> this," King's father said about Kennedy at a church rally.
> "I've got all my votes and I've got a suitcase, and I'm
> going to take them up there and dump them in his lap." In
> 1956, Dwight Eisenhower had received nearly 40 percent of
> the black vote. (I myself sported an "I Like Ike" button in
> first grade.) In 1960, Nixon received 32 percent. A few
> years later, as the civil-rights era heated up and the
> G.O.P. pursued its "Southern strategy," blacks effectively
> became a one-party constituency.
>
> But at what cost? Speaking to a National Urban League
> audience in July, President Bush quoted an Illinois
> legislator's piquant remark that "blacks are gagging on the
> donkey but not yet ready to swallow the elephant," and went
> on to pose a series of questions that black people
> themselves have been asking: "Does the Democrat party take
> African-American voters for granted? Is it a good thing for
> the African-American community to be represented mainly by
> one political party? How is it possible to gain political
> leverage if the party is never forced to compete?"
>
> Of course, such questions have an unspoken corollary: Why
> support a party that has written you off?
>
> Some black Republicans will tell you that however important
> the legal reforms of the civil-rights era had been 40 years
> ago, blacks today will be well served by the party of
> school reform and faith-based programs, the party of the
> so-called ownership society. "These are going to be the
> pillars of the black community," Condoleezza Rice told me.
> "In my little community in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 50's
> and 60's, there were black-owned businesses everywhere, and
> everybody owned their own homes. That made our community
> strong. We've got to get back to that."
>
> Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political strategist,
> says the Republicans' low levels of black support are
> unhealthy for the party - once the party of Lincoln, after
> all - and for the African-American community. Part of
> what's gone wrong, he told me, is that Republicans don't
> advertise in black media markets. "If the conversation in
> the community is predominantly Democrat, and we don't make
> the argument on urban radio and we don't pay attention to
> the African-American newspapers, and if we don't campaign
> in the community, then why are we surprised when people
> don't hear our arguments and don't vote for our
> candidates?"
>
> What's more, many blacks are evangelical Protestants, and
> tend to be more conservative than their white counterparts
> on "social" issues like gay rights and capital punishment.
> "The Democratic Party is not 90 percent more black friendly
> than we are," Rove exclaims.
>
> Why, then, are blacks such down-the-line Democrats? My
> Harvard colleague Michael Dawson, a descendant of a black
> Democratic congressman from Chicago, agrees with Rove that
> black people are socially conservative. But the issues they
> vote on are racial and, especially, economic.
>
> When it comes to race, he points out, parties have
> multilevel strategies. Republicans can appeal to white
> moderates by signaling a measure of compassion about
> problems of race. "On the other hand," Dawson observes,
> "you can go into places such as Florida and try
> systematically to disenfranchise poor black votes."
>
> The real watershed, in his view, was the 1980 election.
> Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford tried to build up, and win
> over, a black middle class; the Reagan team figured they
> could do better by shutting out the black political
> establishment and mobilizing white conservatives. "Black
> elites were shocked to find out that with Reagan and his
> advisers, there were no longer 'good Negroes' and 'bad
> Negroes,' " Dawson says.
>
> What the big-tent rhetoric ignores is that a more "black
> friendly" G.O.P. might pay a price in white support. "The
> Republicans would lose more white votes than they would
> gain black votes," Dawson says. And so blacks, as a
> one-party constituency in a two-party system, get
> sidelined.
>
> It isn't that the candidates won't call. It's just that
> they're calling collect.
>
> Henry Louis Gates Jr. is a guest columnist through
> September. Thomas L. Friedman is on book leave.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/19/opinion/19gates.html?ex=1096722371&ei=1&en=25f0ac90b3b8ae8b
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