One of the few times I have to disagree with Dr. Sowell. Most blacks are not interested in hearing how the rising tide lifts all boats. They have a bone deep sense of entitlement and resentment that can never be satisfied, but only briefly appeased by robbing whites via taxes and squandering the plunder in the form of largesse that benefits only blacks. It has been conditioned into them since birth. They're not going to listen to reason.instead of explaining how Republicans' general principles, applied to all Americans, can do more for blacks than the Democrats' welfare state approach.
That is certainly what Sharpton, Jackson, et. al. are selling. And I take it as a given that the majority of blacks are only too ready to buy it.There is however a fallacy in a critique that says that Republicans can never get a majority of the black vote, so they shouldn't try at all. The fallacy is that if that appeal is made by a Republican selling Republican rather than RINO policies, it need not be 100%, or even 50%, effective to have powerful electoral consequences. Once the Democrats have committed to policies which promote racial division, they become beholden to the 90% black vote they count on, and cannot afford to only get 2/3 or even 3/4 of it.I take Sowell to mean that Republicans should be able to sell the benefits of their policies to blacks enough to cut the Democrats' margin of victory among blacks enough to put them in a pickle overall. I would go further and say that you could even do pretty well without getting a substantial increase in your percentage, if you only succeeded in cutting down black turnout. If the black turnout is low, let the Democrats win 90% of the black vote, and the Republican still is in a good position. Blacks are cynical about Republicans, and they can easily be cynical enough about politics to decide not to bother voting. It would undoubtedly take time for that to grow into positive voting support for the Republicans. Ya gotta start somewhere . . .
I don't believe that's what I said. It may be possible to sway some black voters if the Republicans don't come across as Democrat lite. I agree that Democrate lite will never do it, because if you're going to vote for the guy that promises you he'll loot the fruits of the labors of your fellow tcitizens and give you the pelf, then you're going to vote for the one who promises you the most loot.
However, going by what I see, the black folks I work with are not dumb (one's got a PhD in applied math), but they are all blind when it comes to politics. Every single of them who expressed any political opinion is a staunch 0 supporter. It's like all they see is race. Mortgaging and squandering our future, our childrens' futures, and our grandchildrens' futures doesn't seem to register with them. So how do the Republicans spend the finite resources they have to get their message out? First, they have to decide on the message, and frankly, except for the new tea party candidates, it's still the Bush democrap lite. I'd say concentrate on selling a message of significant reduction in government and it might work. Frankly, the Republicans have not in the past (at least not since Reagan) and still don't project that message. They didn't even vote to defund Amtrak.