Posted on 10/30/2010 8:47:59 PM PDT by Islander7
Despite allegations of racism in Tea Party organizations, the Republican Party, and conservative groups, 2010 has witnessed more black Republican activism than ever before. Thirty-seven African Americans in 16 states have been in contention for seats in the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives this year.
Fox News reports, “The Republican Party is hoping to put a record number of African Americans in Congress after Tuesday’s election; despite the fact the first black president is highly unpopular within the party.”
Of course, the effort has not been without some difficulty.
According to Onnidan Online, “Black conservatives are used to having to defend their values, but they now are really taking heat for their involvement in the mostly white ‘Tea Party’ movement — and for having the audacity to oppose the policies of America’s first black president.”
One such black conservative is Timothy F. Johnson of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, a group of black conservatives who support the free market and limited government. “I’ve been told I hate myself. Black Republicans find themselves always having to prove who they are. Because the assumption is the Republican Party is for whites and the Democratic Party is for blacks.”
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There are currently 42 members of the Congressional Black Caucus. Does anyone know if any of them will not be re-elected? Is it possible that the new conservatives might out-number them? :-)
Bill Marcy (R) is running neck and neck with Bennie Thompson in MS-02.
Hopefully, Thompson will go down. This district is rarely polled.
It looks like the only one that might be in trouble is Sanford Bishop of GA...I’d be surprised if the GOP elected 41 black conservatives....what’s their record (at any one time)? 2, 3, 4? (J.C. Watts, Gary Franks, rumors about Bob Barr having Negro blood, maybe one other?)
We conservatives have been branded every sort of file label in the book for a generation. None of those labels are true, but to convince the opposition, there must be irrefutable proof.
Race / gender is not an issue for anyone on these boards, but it is for the democrats. Shoving their words down their throats is a delicious proposition for many of us.
Welcome to Free Republic.
JC Watts was denied membership in the Black Caucus, if I remember correctly. By the way, I got a robocall from him today for Mary Fallin, GOP candidate for OK governor.
Why would there be any relation between the fact that a black President is unpopular in the GOP, and the fact that the GOP is running several black Americans as candidates this election cycle?
Could it be that maybe Republicans aren't racist?
I sure don't appreciate the presumption of prejudice which that sentence implies...
Is Lt. Col. Allen West going to win? I haven't seen any polls...
Yes, there will be Congressional Black Caucus members defeated.
No, the Black Republicans won’t come anywhere near outnumbering them.
Currently Black Democrats outnumber Black Republicans 42-0.
Look for it to be about 40-4 after the election.
And I’m optimitistic: 4 Black Republicans is ground-shaking.
However, in 2012, look for Black Republicans to outnumber Black Democrats in the Senate, 1-0. Go Micheal Williams (R-TX).
And maybe we could even get Larry Elder to knock off Diane Feinstein.
The real bigots have always been the 'liberals'.
She’s been very gracious...and is a very beautiful woman.
She’ll be around for a long time.
It’s so much fun to watch the shoe being put on the other foot.
I have been that way for decades. However, when the black race-baiters push their racist agenda, I tend to get a little biased. Only natural. I would be the same way if the Italians, Greeks, Irish, Scottish (my heritage) did the same thing. I would be biased. Sue me.
bloody tea party racists! Oh...wait!
This statement really, really bothers me and as an American I find it offensive. Offensive that another American, this day in age, would have to feel the need to "prove" who they are. What the hell do the have to "prove?"
They are successful people in America? They have morals? They have a strategy to lead? Just what exactly do they have to "prove?" You see these are the things with which I discriminate and choose my elected officials.
If you are thinking they have to "prove" they are "black" well then...that is racist. "Prove" they identify with the "black" experience? Ugh...they did and then they chose to rise above it. They chose to not be held down or held back by the policies that have been abused to create your preciously held "black experience."
There is nothing romantic or beautiful in what you are demanding they "prove" to you. The beauty and romance is found in they took their welfare, rose colored glasses off and realized the obstacles in front of them were illusions painted on the lenses by those who seek to control you.
They have nothing to "prove" to you, it is you that needs to "prove it to yourself." Your demand that a candidate "prove his/her blackness" is a false, discriminatory, and racist premise.
Sunshine State News Poll, 10/21, West 47, Klein 44...from Real Clear Politics.
“I’ve been told I hate myself. Black Republicans find themselves always having to prove who they are. Because the assumption is the Republican Party is for whites.
Mr Johnson, tell your accusers "you know what happens when you assume" Demand THEY prove it.
You have plenty of ammunition to the contrary including the democrats of the KKK, George Wallace, Robt Byrd etc etc etc.
The slavers were RATs period.
If that b-word runs for another term, I'll crawl over broken glass to vote against her in the primary.
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