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“Blacks voted for Hussein Obama because of skin color.”

I would say that “many” blacks voted for him because of his skin color. Most that voted for him would have voted for whatever Dem candidate there was anyway. The Dems have the black vote sewed up. Sowell’s point is to just pull a portion of that vote by appealing to the blacks that are willing to think for themselves, and in this case he used charter schools as an example of a route.

So he’s GOPe leaning, do we have to throw the baby out with the bath water? Or can we think for ourselves and consider a way, ANY WAY, to appeal to the black community in such a way, as Sowell suggests, to pull some of that vote over to the conservative side?

That he doesn’t like Cruz, Levin, or the Tea Party movement is what we should criticize, not his entire works.

We can appeal to the black community by making it easier to start up small businesses and to be self employed. We can say that they are being replaced in the job market by illegals and other unnecessary foreign labor. We can sympathize with those whose neighborhoods are actually worse off because of hispanics moving in. We can support LOCAL schools with job training opportunities in high school.

You want to pander to them with "school choice" that solves nothing. Real conservatives who defend US citizens (who blacks mostly are) would promise that they were in line for jobs they are qualified for before non-citizens were even considered. They would oppose Spanish being used in work or commerce.

But this pandering with "school choice". All it's serving to do is destroy the good schools that still remain.

Sowell is not on our side. He and all of the other globalist lapdogs should get out of the way of constitutional conservatives.

There is no honest way to appeal to black voters. The Republican Party used to be the party of black Americans. That was about one hundred years ago. Then FDR came along initiating the welfare state, and Pubbies started losing black voters in droves. I think Nixon was the last Pubbie to get a substantial share of the black vote with around 30% in 1960. Goldwater only got about 6% four years later. Of course, Goldwater's rejection of the 1964 Civil Rights bill hurt him and Republicans enormously. Ever since then, even though many Pubbies supported the bill and Goldwater changed his mind, the GOP has never been able to capture but a minuscule pct. of the black vote.

The only way they could get more black voters would be to transform themselves into Dem lites...i.e. rejecting all principle and pandering. I refuse to support any pandering pols, Dem or Republican. So I've written off the black voter. The typical black voter does not want to stand on his or her own two feet. The black voter loves Big Government and being a victim. That is my conclusion, and no amount of appealing to reason will win them over. Those are the sad facts.

If the GOP wants to win it needs to energize CONSERVATIVES many of whom sat out the past two elections. If the GOP proceeds with Christie and an outreach to try and win Black voters they will lose again. That is a fact.