[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.

[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...

[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.

[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....