text: Maybe stop propagating the tired old propaganda of the helpless, feeble black American who is passively waiting for a welfare handout like Pavlov's dog waits for a treat. Because this is why the GOP can't earn the black vote. The modern GOP has no intention of trying to earn the black vote. They're still getting too much mileage demonizing and infantilizing black Americans in order to court the racist, white backlash vote. Southern Strategy. Thanks for the polite if condescending pat on the head, though, GOP, as you dismiss 38 million black Americans and sloppily paint all with one obscenely wide brush.