Posted on 08/12/2005 8:52:17 PM PDT by wagglebee
A new national organization of black Republicans is set to launch Monday, hoping to effectively represent the party's ideals in the African-American community.
The National Black Republican Association will make its announcement at a Washington, D.C, law firm.
"The creation of the National Black Republican Association is the product of the dreams and efforts of scores of black Republicans across the nation," said interim Chairperson Frances Rice, co-founder of a black Republican group in Sarasota, Fla. "Black grass-roots activists have always been involved locally and nationally within the Republican Party, but there was always agreement that we needed a national organization to represent the interests of Republicans in the black community. We also needed an organization that will effectively counter the disinformation concerning Republicans being perpetuated by the Democratic Party."
The mission of the new group is to be educate the black community on Republican ideals and to support the principles of the Republican Party. It hopes to "increase the number of black Americans who vote for Republicans, and are active in the Republican Party, by providing information, networking opportunities and resources for black Republicans nationwide," said a statement from the organization.
The NBRA also will identify black Republicans as potential candidates and will financially support those who run for office.
"These are exciting times for black Republicans," said Donald Scoggins, interim co-chairman and president of a black Republican group in Virginia. "One important aim of the NBRA is to empower the people by championing opportunity scholarships for black children and helping black Americans move into our Ownership Society. With the help of our supporters, the NBRA will change the political landscape, for the sake of our future generations."
Said NBRA Communications Director Christopher Arps: "We have witnessed the experiment of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs of the 1960s. Though a noble cause, these programs have unintentionally created a permanent underclass. The consequences of the Great Society has created conditions of teen pregnancy being too high, and too many of our young black men turning to a life of crime and drug abuse.
"These chronic problems are shouting for new leadership and new solutions. The NBRA will address those problems by supporting and electing African American candidates who support our traditional and faith based values."
African-Americans traditionally vote for Democrat candidates in large numbers. In some races, as many as 80 or 90 percent of black voters vote Democratic.
This is a great move, because blacks have been getting screwed by the 'Rats for over seventy years.
Black conservative ping.
That's good, because as a white guy, I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no black GOP groups.
(Sorry about that, but whoever wrote that headline for WND should have seen the obligatory Butterfly McQueen reference coming a mile away.)
I was thinking the same thing about the "birthed" word, but the moderators get upset if you change the title, so I left it the way it was.
Good news...now get busy and organize a few plantation breaks. Free at last!
The best news in the entire article.
Condi Rice and Alan Keyes!
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
-- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan.
;-)
"This is a great move, because blacks have been getting screwed by the 'Rats for over seventy years."
That is so true.
If we could get 40% of the blacks to vote Republicans that is a good thing.
Since blacks are not monolithic, this is what I foresee/hope for:
40% Democrats.
40% Republicans
20% Other parties
Those are the percentages that I foresee/hope for of the voting black vote block, which I estimate to 50% of those eligible to vote.
"The NBRA also will identify black Republicans as potential candidates and will financially support those who run for office."
Hopefully non-blacks will support their own candidates too.
If 40% (and it would probably only take 25-30%) of blacks began to consistently vote Republican, the 'Rats would be history. Many blacks (especially older middle class women) are outraged at the left's homosexual, anti-family agenda.
And right you are.
All of us, as a collective, need to win them over to our camp. We need them votes to defeat the leftovers at the other camp.
We're starting to get a lot more of the legal Hispanic immigrants too.
Some have said (at least I heard it during the campaign) that even if only 20% of blacks voted Republican, the Democrats would never again win another election. (I presume they meant general/presidential)
As for the prospects of that happening, well...whoever thought it would get where it was in 2004?
True. As is equally true that if the Republican party loses 2% of the white vote, it will never win another election. That 2% makes it a 4% gap.
"If you put a knife under the bed, it cuts the pain in two !
70 years ? The 'Rats and their antecedents have been either enslaving, butchering, lynching or screwing Blacks since 1776.
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