Well, being a southerner, what I’m going to say will be dismissed by some, out of tired old regional and racial stereotypes.
An excellent observation! I too have been around black folks since my military days and I agree with much of what you are saying. However I work with many God-fearing blacks who idolized Michael Jackson and think Obama is an answer from God for the black folks. There isn’t a Republican alive who will take their vote away from the fraud occupying the WH. It’s a damn shame but that is what we’re dealing with.
Black people were Republican almost exclusively, less than half a century ago, and Democrats were despised by them, so it’s possible to alter the dynamic, since it so obviously already has been altered.
But, I’m not terribly concerned about the Republican Party. I vote for their candidates because they’re often closer to my beliefs than not. A rising conservative tide should lift conservatives. If they’re Democrat, and yes there actually still are a few, then so be it. If they’re third party, so be it. If it’s a key Democrat voting bloc, starting to resist some of the more egregious power grabs, then more power to them, whatever their affiliation.
That’s where I’m coming from, and have been since that very unfortunate push for amnesty, and the concurrent, nasty, arm-twisting effort directed at certain NC Congressmen, regarding CAFTA.
The Republican Party can pound sand, as a result. Republican candidates who actually are conservative, will get my support and my vote. But, not otherwise.
You’re correct that a Republican, even a black one, won’t get much of the black vote. However, if disgust of zero becomes pervasive enough, a lot of the black vote will stay home just like a lot of the conservative vote did last time...
I’m a southerner too (on assignment in Yankee territory) and unfortunately, the stereotype is that blacks are God fearing. Going to church and being God fearing are not synonymous. Obama is living proof of that. Crime statistics, abortion rates, single mother birth rates, racial hatred, idol worship and exceptional tolerance for ungodly behavior are not signs of a God fearing people. The black friends I have had were not practicing hypocrites and did well. They of course are a minority within the minority and have been ostracized by black culture as being too white.
I think it is wishful thinking to read anything into these polls that implies some kind of major shift of cultural thinking. There is no basis for reaching that conclusion. Too many blacks have put their hope and faith in a political messiah myth, and that hasn’t changed. Obama has simply failed to live up to the myth.