I am happy for you. Most blacks I know are miserable because either they are surrounded by liberals wthin their friends and families or are conflicted because they know what they should be doing but have extreme pressures to not do them.
All I can say is that people who suffer that way don't have what my mom used to call "the courage of their convictions."
A person either has personal integrity, or they don't. Even when I was surrounded by people who thought differently than I did, I never followed the crowd just to get along, nor was I ever afraid to assert my own opinion for fear of being ostracized by my fellows.
I probably got that from my dear old mom. She's always been an unabashed iconoclast in every way, and a real fighter. She's got more brass than most people I ever knew, and has never once backed down when she's been challenged (on anything - by anyone).
She and I are polar opposites when it comes to politics, but we're two peas in a pod when it comes to standing firm in our convictions. That does tend to make conversing on most topics kinda rough for us ;-)