Speaking as one American, the whole " GOP outreach to Black folks " argument rings hollow for this reason,
Most American Blacks reject Republican conservatism. While having strong religious conservatism, this doesn't translate into its political equivalent, because of an even stronger allegiance: socialism.
Many feel America owes us for a tortured past and present issues. Government entitlement is the vehicle for satisfying this grievance.
Democrats are more than willing to play this role in exchange for a monopoly on the Black vote.
Obama's two elections are seen more as a two part coup, than traditional transfers of power within the constitutional framework.
Record disbursements of unemployment insurance; food stamps and Obamacare was enough to confirm that the hated West socialists despise had been toppled in America.
One of many flaws in this socialist thinking is: American Blacks are Westerners too. The American tradition is informed by many cultures, varied African included, that create the sum total we practice today.
Seeing ourselves as outcasts within our own country creates fellow traveler status for whatever slick talking socialist cons us into selling out traditional values for more government.
I understand just how bad things have been since the last Bush term. People need much more help, public and private.
My concern is thinking the public route is the only one. Once they convince you government is the answer, voting Democrat is the only way to go.
Against this backdrop, excessive outreach to socialist Americans in my community is a waste of time. Individual American Blacks and sub-sets are political conservatives by choice- not coercion.
Begging; bribing or otherwise undermining traditional values platforms simply to have more Black faces in the GOP is a losing proposition.
Latinos are more philosophically receptive to the values message, but amnesty is the promise needed to keep them voting Republican.
Unlike us, they are competitive with their vote and aren't wedded at the hip to either party.
Black folks may eventually emancipate ourselves from socialism, but that's not the GOP's problem. As Americans we will have to look socialism in the eye and reject it.
No benevolent outsider can do this for us. It hurts watching White patriots wanting us to embrace Americanism more than many of us desire.
The modern abolitionists are here but lot of us have yet to book passage on today's underground railroad of free markets and a Judeo-Christian ethic cleansed of socialism.
Retaining conservatives of all colors is Republicans immediate peril. The minute I see them courting the " Obama Phone Lady " or " preacher for profit " demographic, I'll return to being an independent.
There are clear reasons why Americans are Republicans and Democrats.
American Blacks in large part expect government to even the score for past wrongs. Those of us more focused upon the present and powered by uncompromised traditional values will either be Republicans; Independents or whatever other affiliation awaits.
I wish our outreach advocates well. They may be able to get significant numbers of Blacks to vote their values instead of worshipping at the altar of socialism.
I'm content with the percentage of center right; conservative and libertarian Americans from the Black community who are Republicans.
We're here because the party ( at least in writing ) champions traditional values by which we live. An influx of socialists of any color should compel us and others to seek greener pastures elsewhere.
My work in the inner city isn't to magically make Republicans out of socialists. My goal is getting some to reject socialism's moral relativism, so they stop leading criminal and drug addicted lives.
My formula is the more patriots we mutually manufacture the fewer thugs; cracks heads and alcoholics. Sounds like a great trade off to me.
How they vote afterward is something we can discuss.
More Black faces for the sake of it isn't the answer.
Recruiting more Americans whose patriotism and love of traditional values bind them together is a better goal.
Memo to the GOP: most Black folks like being Democrats. If we wanted to be Republican, more would have done so by now.
Alot of us are socialists and therefore, Democrats.
Republicans, look within your ranks for centrist and conservative Americans from the Black community. We're already here.
One day Black folks will weary of socialism.
Black emancipators equivalent to Jack Kemp; Ron Paul; Ayn Rand and others are hastening this day. White modern abolitionists similar to Frederick Douglass; Booker T Washingon and Harriet Tubman are also fighting for this glorious day.
Today isn't it.
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I agree with what you are saying.
One of the things that I am starting to see is the Democrats starting to pay less attention to Blacks and more to Mexicans and immigrants from third world countries. If We don't start making that obvious and out in the open soon, you will find that Blacks, like white working non-2% Americans, will be thrown under the bus and enslaved by Socialism. There is no way a society can escape Socialism; they had to destroy the Soviet Union in order to get rid of it.
Just listen to Faricon, Jackson, and Wright. The blacks don't even try to hide it anymore. The black hatred of whites is freely admitted and promoted. I really don't understand how any white can not feel like the target that they are. This is not my opinion. The statements come the mouths of the big blacks. Listen to the black rappers. They spread and promote hate and violence against whites. This is not racist; it is factist.
Thanks Robin. We hear all this crap about racism morning, noon and night. The entire English language is a "race code" now. Theyre always lookin for a reason to show their ass. Quick to point out white racist actions and words, yet when they do the same thing and speak the same thing, its not racism????? Take for instance black religion. Many say they are christians, and Im sure some are, maybe most. They oppose gay marriage, labeling it against christian beliefs but then run out and vote for Obama. Figure that one out. Its like the coal miners. Obama said he'll bankrupt the coal industry, but coal miners flocked out in droves to vote for him???????? Over the years Ive come to understand that when you help someone you can save them from many things, but the one thing you cant save them from is themselves. Youve put up some great posts yourself. It will take as many of us as we can muster to live through the next four years.
Memo TO GOP sounds like December 7th, 1941. That instance really brought home whether we could maintain the American way of life. Somehow we were able to coalesce all to save America, and we did. The NWO is like the enemy of 1941 and we have to start selling that. If you tell Blacks, Latinos straight up that we are going down, perhaps that can galvanize some unity rather than tea and sympathy. It's a shame that most of you have no idea what happened back then and how we
were quite close to losing. I hear no one saying from our side that Wall Street represented by the big banks and Federal Reserve are truly our enemy - controlled by Democrats.
Tim, I like the card value scheme you have. The black of race is the big card, I guess followed by the black of women etc. Very interesting. You could market this :)
They are just proving the validity of the " bell curve " , nuff said
The black card trumps the gender card, the loyalty card, the fairness card etc. Note what happened in South Carolina in 08. Bill Clintons quote "I was the nations first black president" Clinton was a champion for the blacks, yet when Hillary needed their vote, they voted for Obama. If Obama had not rigged the election and lost, they would scream it was due to racism. Yet they voted 99% for Obama, but that is of course not racism. Imagine if in some precincts in the south that Romney would have gotten 19,605 votes to Obamas 0. There would be rioting, protesting, raping, burning, killing, looting, and destruction the likes of which have never been seen before nor ever would be again. But as long as the numbers favored Obama, even if the numbers are mathmatically impossible, its perfectly ok. Are whites the only race that can be racist? Considering the facts, yes. They are 12% of the population yet they determine the course of the nation. Entitlements WILL cease one day. Whether through legislation or lack of funds. The gap between the makers and the takers is closing---fast. The only way to keep the entitlements going is to raise taxes. If we are to stop the destruction of our nation, then revolution or, and I hate saying this, civil war may be the only way. Thats whats coming if entitlements stop.
LBJ's war on poverty and The Great Society were specifically targeted to bring about what we see today. The war on Poverty was an enormously successful plan.
The greatest problem I see for Republicans/conservatives in battling the socialist agenda that many blacks (and white folk) subscribe to is failing to adress the "wealth redistribution" and "social equality" selling points of socialism. Let's face it, these are enormously popular with anyone that hasn't managed to fullfill their purception of the American dream on their own. But these selling points are scams that manipulate the thinking of many of our society. Marxism uses the Laws of Human nature to con the masses, by relieving the individuals who have failed in life of any responsibility for their failures, by reinforcing the failed individuals desire to blame someone else, rather than accept responsibility for their own situation in life.
The founders of this nation beleived in self-governence and wrote the US Constitution with that in mind. Self-governence is the responsibility of the People, as individuals and as a collective. Our Federal government was disgned to protect the rights of the individual and to provide protection to the States from invasion from enemies foreign and domestic, NOT to provide for the well being of each and every individual. THAT is OUR job, OUR responsibility, as individuals. This is what real INDEPENDENCE is all about.
The so-called "war on poverty" is also a faux idea. This war can never be won becuase there will always be a certain sigmant of any society that will live in poverty, regardless of what the minimum income (in dollars) is. Who ever is at the lower rungs of the economic ladder (income wise) will be inpoverished. If the Minimum income were to be $100k per year, the poverty level would be around a half million dollars per year. How can this be, you may ask? Because the cost of living would go up (inflation) with the "mean income". It always does.
This is what we need to be articulating to the folks that are currently subscribing to the false promises of socialism. Don't count on leadership of either party to do this, because they have both become self-serving monstors in themselves, struggling for domination over the masses. It is up to We the People, as individuals to educate our fellow Americans (of all races).
WHAT A SHAME THAT BLACK FOLKS DON'T RESEARCH HOW IT HAS ALMOST ALWAYS BEEN THE REPUBLICANS WHO HAVE LAID THE ROAD WORK FOR THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS.
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