Hello? Is anyone on the Right listening?
These are the bread and butter issues that black voters want and demand that their elected officials pay attention to. And they are getting more conservative.
Knock, knock!
A recent poll by Black America's Political Action Committee, a Washington D.C. based political advocacy group, found that more blacks than ever say that President Bush is doing a good job. But even more ominous for black Democrats, a near majority of blacks lambasted the Democrats for taking them for granted.
Two perfect examples of this are the issues of crime and violence, and failing public schools. Polls show that more blacks than ever back the death penalty, three strikes, and mandatory drug sentencing laws. The reason is simple. They are the biggest victims of gangs, drugs and violence.
Tell me about it! I still have a scar over my left eye that was placed there by a Vice Lord when I was 15.
In recent court decisions upholding school vouchers, black parents led the charge for school vouchers. They see them as their children's ticket out of grossly underserved and under performing public schools. Yet, civil rights leaders and nearly all black Democrats relentlessly oppose vouchers, and talk almost exclusively about police abuse and the racism in the criminal justice system, rather than black-on-black crime, and creating opportunities for the black poor in schools outside the ghetto. The leaders and the politicians and working class blacks talk two different languages on these and other issues.
Is it sinking in yet?
The bitter truth is that guilt tainted racial appeals by black politicians for black solidarity and voter registration caravans and buses into black neighborhoods are not going to make blacks dash to the polls to vote for politicians who wage media-grabbing empty fights over issues that many black voters regard as remote and foreign to their needs and interests. But many will rush to the polls to vote for someone they think can better deliver the goods.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is one schizophrenic character. Sometimes, like now, he makes perfect sense. He's nobody's conservative. At other times, he sounds like the Leftist of the Left. But he's telling the truth here.
Now, for we on the Right, what are we going to do about this? The crack in the door is there. Will we have enough sense to lay out the message of the Right (which is hope, self-worth by personal accomplishment, and freedom) or will we allow the Left to have this demographic yet again? Notice how the author didn't lay out any claims for handouts or preferences. The issues that the regular black man or woman care about are taylor-made for the conservative message!
What are we going to do? Me? I'm going for it.
Not a Conservative Vice Lord, I hope.......;-)
Good article.