Posted on 09/02/2021 6:22:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
The election to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom is now less than two weeks away. According to California law, Newsom will be removed from office if more than 50% of those casting ballots vote in favor of recall. The ballot also asks who should replace the governor if he is recalled. However, Newsom's replacement would be whichever person named on the ballot receives the most votes. There is no requirement that he or she must receive more than 50% of the votes, or indeed any specific percentage at all.
At this writing, conservative commentator and talk show host Larry Elder appears to be the frontrunner to replace Newsom if the recall succeeds. Elder is a Black man running as a Republican. He also calls himself a "small-'l' libertarian."
This is giving the left apoplectic fits. Exhibit A is the news coverage. On Aug. 20, for example, the Los Angeles Times published a column, "Larry Elder is the Black face of white supremacy." Newspapers and online sites across the country have published articles with a similar bent. And, of course, the smear machine has kicked into high gear, ransacking Elder's past for disgruntled girlfriends or inappropriate comments that the public is somehow supposed to care about.
Elder has largely brushed off the attacks as false and has poked fun at his attackers. In one tweet with a link to the LA Times' column, he joked that it was really something to accuse a kid from "South Central" (Los Angeles, where Elder grew up) of being a white supremacist.
The number of Black Americans who have dared to publicly break with the Democratic Party is growing, as is their visibility. Thomas Sowell and the recently deceased Walter E. Williams are among the best-known conservative economists and scholars in the world. Alan Keyes, Herman Cain and Ben Carson were candidates for president. More recently, Maryland congressional candidate Kim Klacik made waves with her campaign ads. Civil rights attorney Leo Terrell's political switch has made him a fan favorite on Sean Hannity's show. Former Georgia Rep. Vernon Jones is now a candidate for the state's governor, and former football great Herschel Walker is running for a Georgia U.S. Senate seat. Broadcast personalities such as Candace Owens, Sonnie Johnson, David Webb and Charles Payne are grabbing audience attention, as are musicians Kanye West and Zuby.
The rise of Black conservatives has exposed the rank hypocrisy in the left's attitude towards minorities generally and Black Americans specifically. "Politics ain't beanbag," as the saying goes, and anyone who enters the space has to anticipate vehement opposition. But Black conservatives have to endure accusations that they are stupid, are voting (or running) against their own self-interest and that they have betrayed their race. Now, they're being told, often by white liberals, that they aren't really "Black" if they don't agree with the policy positions of the left or support Democrat politicians. President Joe Biden notoriously said during the 2020 campaign that if you were a Black American and voting for Donald Trump, "you ain't black."
It's shocking how condescending and insulting these attacks are. And yet those making them get away with it. No wonder conservatives such as Owens refer to their conversion to conservatism as "escaping" the "Democrat plantation."
What's behind the viciousness? The emergence of a class of Black conservative intellectuals, theorists, politicians, pundits and voters destroys the narrative Democrats have run on for 60 years -- that they are the champions of Blacks, and their policies are integral to Blacks' success in America.
This same phenomenon is playing out among other minorities as well. When Dade County went for Trump in 2020, the papers were filled with op-eds explaining that Cubans, Venezuelans and other Latin American Trump supporters weren't really "Hispanic." The numbers of Mexican Americans in Texas who went for Trump did not help this narrative. Neither does the number of Hispanics in California supporting Newsom's recall.
In a saner political environment, disgruntled Blacks, like all similarly situated Americans, could tell the Democratic Party something like this: "We want the same objectives -- stronger families, safer neighborhoods, better schools, lower incarceration rates, more employment opportunities, reduced homelessness, increased treatment options for mental illness and substance abuse, a healthier relationship between law enforcement and citizens -- but we disagree on the best way to achieve those aims."
But it's no longer clear what the Democratic Party wants besides power. Today's Democratic leadership is controlled by splinter factions angrily pushing issues that lack support from a majority of Americans: open borders, more COVID lockdowns, defunding the police, refusing to enforce laws against theft and vandalism, releasing criminals without bail, and conversion from free market entrepreneurial capitalism to some kind of top-down socialism.
This is unlikely to persuade anyone who's paying attention, especially politicians and activists such as Bernie Sanders, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors and Newsom, who are repeatedly exposed as hypocrites for not living by the rules they demand everyone else follow.
As more Black conservatives make their presence felt, it should be clear, finally, that the Black vote has never been monolithic. Republicans, who have never been particularly adept at courting minority votes anyway, cannot count on the loyalty of Black conservatives any more than they can white conservatives. The real political divide today is not between Republican and Democrat, but between those who defend individual agency and liberty, and those who believe that a relatively small number of elites should control the lives of the much larger majority.
We fought a war over that political ideology almost 250 years ago, and won because those in power underestimated us and believed that the old political structures would carry the day forever.
Wrong then. Wrong now.
California needs to be "bidened" ... every stupid law and dictat negated on the first day by E.O.
The stakes are too high for the rats to let Larry Elder win. Therefore vote fraud will keep Newsome in.
How to fix our education system.
Take all the tax dollars used for education and give vouchers to the parents to spend on the school of their choice. This would also eliminate the very top heavy administration of the school systems and make more money available for the students.
Problem solved.
How to fix our education system.
Take all the tax dollars used for education and give vouchers to the parents to spend on the school of their choice. This would also eliminate the very top heavy administration of the school systems and make more money available for the students.
Problem solved.
Even if blacks are leaning more conservative in the past, that won’t help us recall Newsom because blacks are less than 5% of the population here. We need the Hispanic vote.
Yes, Just look at Kimberly Klacik who ran one of the best campaigns in Baltimore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UmpsWnJYxQ
When presented with an alternative, Blacks came out in droves to support her.....
Oh wait......, Nope, she only got 25% of the total vote, the same as the last Republicans in 2018 & 2016 and lost big time
I was talking about voters, not the black people running as conservatives.
As for school choice, I’m absolutely against that. People pay more taxes and money for homes to avoid ghetto retards. There’s nothing wrong with the buildings, books, or teachers in city schools. It’s inner city black culture.
Apparently I’m genetically racist, so blacks can fix their own mess. If you extend your hand enough times, and every time results in a slap to the face, eventually you no lomger put your hand out.
The answer to that is more Whites, Hispanics and Asians.
Blacks are welcome to join if they want. Our platform is out there.
So you try once and QUIT ??
It’s about continuing to pound away, 1% at a time, her getting 25% in a district that the Democrat normally gets 90% is good...
But if she wants to succeed she can’t just show up and run in an election every few years....she needs to be active in the black churches and cultivate allies...
This is where we disagree....
I would be for school choice and vouchers for everyone not just black people, anyone should be free to attend any school they want....public, private, or charter....
Break the backs of the teacher unions and we would all be better off....the purpose of our taxes is to educate kids, not provide great pay and retirement for teachers...
I’m speaking as someone with both parents were school teachers, my mother for over 40 years thru integration in Florida, my father started as a teacher and became a principal thru integration in Florida....
One of the single biggest things we could do to help our country would be to break up the public education system IMO...
Bump
“Let me know when 20% of blacks vote R.”
Even with the 24/7 barrage of media lies, investigations and Impeachments, Pres. Trump did get 20% of Black Men to vote for him in 2020, so that’s something.
The Black vote for Republicans has increased from 4% to about 12% in about 13-years (Dems are scared because if the total Black vote increases to about 22% it’s bye bye Democrat party.
BTW, another reason for California voters to elect Larry Elder is if 90-year old Senator Feinstein cannot complete her term, Larry can appoint a Republican to her seat and swing the Senate NOW!
Black conservatives support Republicans today, just as they did 150 years ago.
I think about 84% of Muslims voted for Bush in 2000.
I’m all for more homeschooling and more private schooling.
That said, people put their kids in private school, pay a ton in tuition and still pay school taxes, to keep their kids away from inner city kids.
I went to public school in Wilmington DE. It was tuined when the inner city school closed, and they dispersed blacks to the three public high schools. (Brandywine, Concord, and Mount Pleasant) It turns out it’s the kids, not the school or teachers that suck. I was assaulted by black males multiple times for being white, nothing else. Coward blacks in groups. Same shit in school for whites, just 28 years later now.
As you say, most parents don’t care about the schools, they send their kids there and hope for the best...
But it’s not 100% of the parents, if you could get 5-10% of the inner city kids enrolled in a private or charter school over time that would be fantastic....
It took 50-60 years to get inner cities in the shape they are in, it’s not going to turn around in my lifetime, but you have to start chipping away at the problem 1-2% at a time.....
Blacks, largely, will never give up their victim mentality.
It’s worse now than in previous decades.
I’m all for them self segregating.
The hard working, intelligent ones will come our direction.
Like I said, it has taken 50-60 years for Black Americans to get into this situation, it might take that long to reverse it...
But if you can get 1-2% over a period of years thru things like school choice, then you can slowly reverse the trend, it’s worth trying because what we have now is not working.
I’m not fatalistic like you seem to be that Black Americans will never change, the fact is a lot of blacks have changed, to have meaningful change you need 2-3 generations to see progress to make any real change happen....
What about welfare queens with 7 kids in tow?
That's not quite accurate. There were no conservative Republicans 150 years ago. They were all big government big city liberals 150 years ago.
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