Posted on 01/23/2022 2:33:24 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
On Saturday, Winsome Earle-Sears, a Black Republican woman, took the oath of office to become Virginia’s 42nd lieutenant governor. She is Virginia’s first female lieutenant governor and the first immigrant to win statewide office in Virginia. But being Black and Republican is what’s gotten a lot of attention — even though that’s not as unusual as many believe.
Sears is actually Virginia’s third Black lieutenant governor, and she succeeds another Black lieutenant governor. Boyd Rutherford and Mark Robinson are also Black Republican lieutenant governors, serving in Maryland and North Carolina, respectively. And Black Republican women — Jenean Hampton, Jennette Bradley and Jennifer Carroll — have held the office in Kentucky, Ohio and Florida.
Because African Americans are the most loyal Democratic voting bloc in the United States, some view Sears and her contemporaries as unicorns in the Black body politic. It’s true that about 90 percent of Black Americans have voted Democratic since the mid-1960s, and that few self-identified conservative Black Americans embrace a Republican party identification. But that doesn’t meant that Black Republicans are nonexistent or unimportant.
Michael Dawson noted in his 2001 book, “Black Visions,” that conservatism was one of the many ideological strains that inform American Black political thought. About 30 percent of Black Americans identify as ideological conservatives. But as Tasha Philpot notes in “Conservative but Not Republican,” Black and White conservatism focus on different things. Using survey data and content analysis of Black and mainstream newspapers over the second half of the 20th century, Philpot finds that Black conservatism focuses on social welfare and religion, while White conservatism also focuses on morality and the role of government.
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It’s only a matter of time before the WaPo will be referring to her as just another Aunty Tomasina...
The racist, Stalinazi media usually just ignore Black GOP officeholders, because their very existence goes against the narrative. The only time they pay them any mind is to either attack them or use them if one goes against President Trump (such as the imbecilic Michael Steele from MD).
Yeah, that little factoid is only surprising to those living under some liberal rock.
Some look at black conservatives as some sort of political chimera not realizing that you go far enough in history and most blacks were Republican. The Democrat party for instance, voted as a block against granting citizenship to freed slaves.
If the GOP were serious about politics, they would make the Democrats carry that like an albatross.
The patriot team elected in Virginia gives me hope.
“That identity is more common than you may think.”
Not really. Such people do exist, but not in numbers that are sufficient to really matter in an election. There were people on here two years ago talking about how Trump was going to get huge percentages of the black vote. Didn’t happen. There might actually be some conservative sentiment building among black men, but even that is quite small, and black men don’t really vote in great numbers. Black women are still the #1 constituent group for the Democrats. That is by design.
We need 1000 more like her.
Most Black Americans were Conservative Republicans until the Demonrats Created the KKK...
I just love that she was gutsy enough to run that awesome poster during her campaign.
That’s probably correct, but it’s hard to say with all of the lying that goes into the polls.
More and more of them every day. I liken it to how air leaks out of a tire. At first, it’s imperceptible, then you suddenly need air, and then it’s completely flat. This is much like the black movement towards the GOP. We’re still in the seepage stage, but it’s just beginning to get noticeable.
Rd later.
Great trigger discipline, Madame Lt. Guv!
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