Study Suggests ‘Black’ Is an Ideology, Not a Skin Color

PJ Tatler ^ | 5-14-2015 | Walter Hudson

[Sir Napsalot]

"Nothing the Republican Party does, even nominating African-American GOP candidates, works to win them over."

(snip) In my encounters with radical black activists, my skin color has commanded no respect. Blackness, it would seem, means how you think, not how you look. A new study seems to confirm this. The Washington Examiner reports:

The study… searched through the demographic details of 3,300 African-American voters in the 2010 election, when the GOP had nearly three dozen black House candidates running, part of the Republican Party’s push to attract minority voters.

But the authors, political scientists from Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Chicago, found it didn’t help. “Republican efforts in recruiting black candidates were ultimately unsuccessful at mobilizing black voters,” the study said.

Since 1981, the GOP has focused on expanding the black vote beyond single digits — and mostly failed.

The study did find that having a black Republican in the race pushed more African-Americans to the polls, but mostly for Democrats. The highest turnout, 75 percent, occurred when both party candidates were black, followed by when only the Democrat was black, at 73 percent, and 62 percent when only the Republican was black.

That last bit seems particularly telling. The highest turnout among blacks occurs when both parties’ candidates are black, but benefits the Democrat, suggesting that black voters feel compelled to rebuke black Republicans running against black Democrats. ..... (read more at linked source)

[Sir Napsalot]

Republicans will not win elections by playing the identity cards.

[JimSEA]

Anyhow, the Republicans got some good candidates. Some of the strongest conservatives are those who have seen Marxist revolutionaries up close.

[bluejean]

Since the dems have destroyed the Republican party by infiltrating it with RINOs, maybe the only way to win the Black vote is to use their own tactics and pepper them with DINOs.

Persuasion is useless against closed, locked, programmed minds, it seems.

[x]

Some of the 2010 candidates ran in the primaries and were defeated by other Republicans. Some ran in strongly Democrat districts and weren't going to win in any case.

I haven't seen the numbers, but I'm not going to take the author's word for it that it was a total loss for the Black Republican candidates that year.

What would the alternative be in districts that are strongly Democrat or minority? Just run nobody? Like in Massachusetts?

[Sir Napsalot]

I should preface this by -

Not saying that the black republican candidates recruited are not good candidates. ‘Black-ness’ itself should count way down on the scale.

But, no, Republicans don't learn anything from such study as this listed in the article. Party “leaders” seemed to be fixated on the next block - Hispanics. And hope to win them by competing with the Dems in offering them ‘more bribes’.

[MrB]

Duh - it’s the culture, not the color.

And that culture is fostered as a foil to the Western/Christian traditional culture on which this country was founded.

[Sir Napsalot]

>>> What would the alternative be in districts that are strongly Democrat or minority? Just run nobody?

In our neck of the woods, Republicans, more often than not, don’t have opposing candidates running against the Dems.

The “alternative” has to come from the black community itself. You’d hope some (and more will) finally wake up to the decades long progressive agenda sending their community back to the plantation as seen in most of the strongly Democrat and/or minority area.

[Steve_Seattle]

Most blacks seem to believe that - apart from athletics and entertainment - skill, knowledge, and experience are irrelevant to job performance, and that the only factors in getting ahead are personal connections, luck, and being white. Any kind of testing or evaluation process seems fake to them.

They also strongly prefer government employment over employment in the private sector, and believe that the main purpose of government is to create government jobs.

This attitude goes back to the days of FDR, when the federal government created many jobs for blacks at a time when black entry into white businesses was difficult and often impossible. So government employment became the black paradigm.

So I'm largely in agreement with the point of this article - "blackness" is a set of attitudes, largely about the role of government in relation to jobs, which is why black conservatives who disagree with the common assumptions of blacks are said to be "not really black."

[MV=PY]

So now I’m an ideologist? Not a racist?

I’m so confused...

[Drango]

So now I’m an ideologist? Not a racist?

You could be both.

[oldbrowser]

As long as Marxists have the minority and women’s vote, the republicans will be stuck fighting for half of the enchilada.

[Ultima]

Most black people are going to vote for whoever offers “the most” to black people.

[Hugin]

As long as Marxists have the minority and women’s vote,

They don't have the "women's vote". They have the single women's vote, and Pubs have the married women's vote. Overall they have a smaller lead among women that pubs have among men.

[Hugin]

Here in CA if the top two vote getters in the primary are in the same party, they run against each other in the general. If a district is overwhelmingly one party you get a moderate vs. a conservative or leftist. It was done to help supposed moderates get elected, but the districts are so lopsided it seems to not work that way so much in reality.

[lump in the melting pot]

An old friend of mine always used to say, “ni**er ain’t a color, it’s a state of mind”. Crude but essentially the same point.

[wildbill]

Time to write the black vote off and tell them about it and why they will find that being a captive voting bloc of the Democrats will lead them to being an ignored bloc.

[terycarl]

Why and when was that ever questioned....it has been true for at least 60 years.

[trebb]

So, Black is really a sense of victim hood, lawlessness, thuggery, racism against all who don't feel that way, eyt...

It is also a condition that will not allow any sense of responsible and rational thought.

That would explain a lot....