[biblewonk]

Blacks have always been conservative.

OH please.

[Warrior Nurse]

It is true most rank and file blacks are conservative when you break down issues one at a time like abortion and school vouchers. Someone has to point out the hypocrisy of the Democratic leadership. After 40 years the cities are not looking any different. The welfare state did to black people what slavery and Jim Crow couldn't it wiped out the black family. With over 70% of childern born out of wedlock and literacy rates in the crapper these are issues that should be addressed in an in your face fashion.

It is time to play hardball with the Dems. We need to grab them by the balls and squeeze them until they start admiting truths.

[truenospinzone]

Care to elaborate? The original poster's point was very clear - the values held by many in the black community are much more in line with conservative views than with liberal views. The vast majority of the middle class black families that I've known (and I grew up in a town with, at the time, a nearly 45% black population) hold conservative views about family, education, and religion. They vote Democrat because, like many other liberal voting bases, they buy into the Democrats' caricature of conservatives as racist WASPs who only care about the rich. Illustrating the harm that liberal policies (including, unfortunately, many enacted or propped up by our current "conservative" President") have done to the black community is a sound strategy.