It’s hard for them to do it for a number of reasons. Once we get more and more Black Republican officeholders like we used to have, it’ll get easier for them to break the chains. One big problem the GOP has is that it is too timid to go in and ask for their vote. Even when the party recruits candidates, very rarely do they supply them with the necessary resources. You can’t just get a candidate and once through the primary tell them they’re on their own. Lots of cycles we’ve had candidates put up and have almost zero in their campaign accounts. Can’t win with nothin’.
It’s because of the “lost Cause” feeling when it comes to educating and fighting for the black vote for republicans. Why spend millions trying to get 5% of their vote in a single cycle?
Because that’s what it will take many times over.
I’m with you in that we need is to fight this fight as if it will take no less then 10 cycles to make a difference, and 20cycles to win. Maybe more.
I disagree. Having lived in the Black community and actually having infiltrated that community, I can honestly say that any Black Conservative espousing “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” will be relegated to an “Uncle Tom.”