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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.

In some cases, that 5% could be the difference between winning or losing an election. I mean I’ve addressed this subject a number of times and the many reasons for our difficulties with making substantive breakthroughs. Some Conservatives think it’s not worth the bother because they mistakenly believe getting more of the Black vote means moving to the left. That’s not what I’m suggesting (besides, that is also a losing exercise because we’re not going to be able to outflank Dems on the left, and we just end up alienating center & right voters in the process).

Democrats spent decades trying to figure out how to get Blacks to support them (ironically, when they got the first Black Democrat elected to Congress in 1934, he had to get elected with nearly an all-White electorate and a smallish Black minority percentage), and in the end, it took almost 100 years from the end of the Civil War for them to be planted securely on their plantation. Republicans, conversely, had just as difficult a time to make breakthroughs in the South (especially Deep South) with White voters. If someone had said in the 1930s that states like MS & SC (both of whom broke nearly 100% for FDR in national elections) would be GOP majority in the future, they’d have thought you were crazy (ditto Blacks in the South voting Democrat in the future).

Nobody seriously expects Blacks to vote majority Republican anytime soon, but even cranking it up to where it was in 1960 (above 25% to 1/3rd) would mean that quite a number of Democrat officeholders from federal on down would be out of a job and replaced by a number of Black Republicans. Indeed, in some of the Southern Black districts currently, that would be enough to run such charlatans as Jim Clyburn (the Democrat Whip), Bennie Thompson and Sanford Bishop out of office.

Once you start jumping from 2 to 5 to 10 and so-on of federal Blacks (and even greater at legislative levels), Democrats will no longer be able to play the race card in an effective way to keep the tide from rolling towards us. And in the end, it will be better for Blacks to be represented by more sane political figures who will be able to either assist (or simply get out of the way as the case may be) in lifting them up out of that Socialist bondage.