People of color have been told that if the are are black they have to think a certain way or have a certain political leaning. This kind of philosophy is nothing but a mental block and a hindrance to the progress of the black race..Someone should appliques to the antebellum South.
*Sigh* I knew I shouldn’t have checked FR one last time before going to bed!
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
At least where I am in GA, there is a growing number of black conservatives and people of all colors who support them. Maybe it’s because I listen to the Herman Cain show every night and I hear firsthand how people are honestly starving for the conservative message and the color of the person speaking it doesn’t mean a hill of beans to them. (Herman Cain is the elderly gentleman on the right when they pan over)
And Herman (and many of his callers) will tell you he has never seen a case of racism at tea parties and he’s spoken at more than 2 dozen. Here is his statement from back then http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2552313/posts
Remember too - black conservatives winning Republican nominations all over the place. Look how many in the Southeast just to name a few - Angela McGlowan/Mississippi’s 1st district, Allen West/Florida’s 22nd district, Princella Smith/Arkansas’s 1st District, Bill Randall/North Carolina’s 13th district, Tim Scott/South Carolina’s 1st district, Stephen Broden/Texas’ 30th district
These conservatives are closer in color to you and I than any liberal in the US - they are true red, white and blue.
I am some 5-6 generation southerner and race was never an issue growing up either with my parents or my friends. I didn’t really know it was an issue for anyone else except maybe my grandparents that is until Jesse Jackson came into the public eye. I believe he and his like (including Obama) are the ones trying to take us back to race relations to the 50s. I don’t know about you but I’m just not going there.