All I am saying is that blacks will vote for the Dem party regardless of whether the GOP nominates a black person or not. Almost one out of every three Dem voters is a minority (Black and Hispanic primarily. The GOP has no credibility within the black community, hence the 90+% of black voters go Dem nationally. The GOP is seen as a racist party, which is reinforced now by a GOP South. I don't know how you can penetrate the current group think among blacks and whether it is worth the effort to try. I would put more effort into the fastest growing and largest minority, albeit diverse--Hispanics.
Sure, if Condi wins the nomination, the black libs will be out in force calling her every name in the book. It will cause a huge rift within the black community. But the idea of a potential black President will be too much for many blacks to resist.
There is no factual basis for your conclusion. It is wishful thinking on your part. There is no group in America that votes in lockstep more than blacks. There is a cultural divide, e.g., the Simpson verdict, which will be hard to bridge. The GOP needs just a small percentage increase of the black vote to destroy the Dems as a viable national party.
Have a little faith.
It is not a matter of faith but political reality. The so called national black leadership have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. Jesse Jackson, Cornell West, Farrakhan, Tavis Smiley, etc. are much more connected to the black community than Crouch or Sowell every will be. Blacks as victims coupled with poor schools will continue to keep them on the Dem plantation for the foreseeable future.
"There is no factual basis for your conclusion."
Exactly my point. There's never been a black nominee for POTUS from a major party. Even the Dems have never come close to nominating a black. When it finally happens, it'll be an historic event for the black community. And if the nominee is a Republican, it will indeed, shatter the current group think among blacks. You can call a black Republican a "token" if they're just a Congressman, a Mayor, even a Senator or Governor. But if the so-called "racist" party nominates a black for top dog, it'll cause plenty of political soul searching within the black community.
"Jesse Jackson, Cornell West, Farrakhan, Tavis Smiley, etc. are much more connected to the black community than Crouch or Sowell every will be."
I'll bet that Bill Cosby is still a loyal Democrat. And if he's now being portrayed as some sort of traitor because of comments that he's made over the past few years, that's just more evidence that the Jesse Jacksons are losing their relevance and the Stanley Crouchs are gaining relevance. The popularity of a movie like "Barbershop" is proof of this. More and more blacks are getting sick of ebonics, gangsta rap, and white left wingers defending the right of young blacks to address each other as "nigga'". They don't all have to become Republicans overnight, they just have to start questioning the rhetoric that's been shoved down their throats for the past 35 years. Many of them are already doing just that.