Hee hee... I'm an enigma of their imaginations :-)
I made it 46 years of semi-sound mind and marginal body. And now I find out that I have an imaginary friend...
All those people on Palin threads telling me I was nuts....perhaps they were right after all ;)
I'm really glad to see you here.
Many, many, MANY years ago when I was in grad school, I lived in an inner-city neighborhood and attended a church that was successfully making the transition from a predominantly white church to one that reflected the neighborhood's change to being predominantly black. In addition to the usual things of driving around to housing projects to pick up tons of kids for Sunday school and Wednesday night Bible clubs, I got politically involved in the neighborhood and ended up being the neighborhood association's delegate to an important committee of the city government. I didn't use the term, but I guess I could have been described as a “community organizer” since I served on the board of a CDBG-funded neighborhood association and was eventually one of its officers, and I sometimes throw that in the face of Obama supporters who like to think conservatives know nothing about problems of the inner city.
I saw firsthand the incredible damage being done by liberal policies to poor families regardless of ethnicity, but which hurt black families more than white families. I also saw many black pastors and church members who should have been Republicans based on religious issues, but weren't.
We need many more conservatives who are not white — both black and Hispanic — or demographics will destroy us.