Posted on 05/20/2014 5:21:44 AM PDT by dignitasnews
And why are they the only ones to show up? Maybe it is because of the vitriol thrown their way by upstanding members of the black community? Maybe it is because when they were growing up, conservative blacks were ostricized by their people of their own race, because they dared to step out of line.
When blacks begin to cut the cancer out of their communities, then they can begin to be free.
If they are coming to conservatives, it’s probably the only real chance they have to live a decent and free life.
Wait a second, Lyndon Johnson said he’d had them voting Democrat for 200 years, there’s still 150 years to go on that guarantee!
Any black American who wants to see this country prosper and wants an opportunity-filled future for their children should be interested in the conservative movement.
In the meantime stand by for more “disparate impact” nonsense from Eric Holder.
I’m sorry, but the number of young black males who actually defected to vote GOP would likely fit in two booths down at the local Dennys.
Color me skeptical.
School choice should be an issue pounded on over and over again in low income communities. It’s the perfect example of how the Democrats look to appease their coalition and the Republicans look to find a (somewhat) free market solution to a problem. What’s more important to your average American family than your kids education/future? Yet what issues are we talking about? Amnesty and Man Made Global Warming....
This just shows how idiotic the Republican party is. If Blacks ever defect to the Republican party, by and large it won’t be because of the Republican party. It will be an accident...
Conservatives have been expounding on this for years yet the GOPe is afraid of saying it.
Why, exactly, do you have this guy’s back?
Because he’s “gettin’ YT”! That’s why!
Good having you on FR.
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They now will not vote for a demoncrap. They got mugged and corrected their views.
I feel good! (credit to James Brown)
FMCDH(BITS)
Republicans need to tap in to an increasingly frustrated black middle class.
That is, there are black families out there that work hard, get educated, live decent lives, and strive to better themselves. But then something weird happens.
Culturally, they are lumped together with blacks who are criminal, lazy, ignorant, and generally worthless. And it bugs the Hell out of them.
Let me emphasize that: it enrages them. And they have a point.
Like him or not, the comedian Chris Rock, who though he only has a GED, observed the horror of blacks with college degrees and even postgraduate degrees, when compared with blacks who had served felony prison sentences. “I’m just like you. I went to prison. That’s like a Masters degree!”
Imagine how oppressive it would be to white professionals, if our culture thought of them as no different than ill behaved lower class whites?
A big part of the problem with the black middle class is that when they succeed, they expect *recognition* as being successful.
Ironically, the white middle class doesn’t do this, to anyone. To them, being middle class means being left alone. To live in isolation in a suburban home surrounded by other suburban homes.
But to middle class blacks being left alone is a snub. They find it offensive when the *recognition* they expect to flow to them with success doesn’t come.
So what can the Republicans do?
Their outreach to middle class black America needs to incorporate some form of recognition, that conservatism and Republicanism is “the success club” to which they are, and want to be members. That once there, they are completely different from black people who are failures and Democrats.
This is not easy, but the end result would be worth it.
Its going to take a sustained effort, but it first takes the GOP even recognizing there is an opportunity. I pointed to Obama’s “My Brothers Keeper” scheme because it shows THEY are looking at the polling data and seeing the threat...but is the RNC? That will be the question.
He - he - he - he
I've often wondered how a Jamaican in this country feels about being called African American. Any idea mon?
The repubs will do the same to them as they do to us conservatives. Both parties are traitors.
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