Nashville's Next Mayor May Be a Black Conservative Woman

RCP ^ | 30 July 2019 | Roger Simon

[Rummyfan]

The last time Nashville’s mayor’s office made national news - a scant seventeen months ago - then mayor Megan Barry resigned after pleading guilty to felony theft relating to an extramarital affair she had with the police officer in charge of her security.

This time it’s for a better reason. After David Briley served as interim mayor, a full-term election is now in progress. And that election is being shaken up by Carol Swain, a woman who is - of all things in traditionally Democratic Nashville, a blue stronghold in a red state - a no-holds-barred black, Christian Republican conservative.

Swain’s vitae resembles neurosurgeon/cabinet member Ben Carson’s, but is in some ways more extraordinary. She was one of twelve children born in rural Virginia in 1954, growing up in a shack without running water. Her mother, a victim of infantile paralysis who never made it out of high school, was physically abused by her stepfather. Her own father ended his education at third grade. Carol herself, shoeless and unable to attend on snow days, did not finish high school either. She dropped out and married at sixteen to have three children, one of whom died of sudden infant death syndrome. Five years later, she was divorced and tried to commit suicide.

But then everything slowly changed. In a remarkable bootstrap story she would likely ascribe to her faith, Swain earned her GED while working as a cashier at McDonald’s, then attended, in succession, Virginia Western Community College, Roanoke College (BA), Virginia Tech (MA), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (PhD) and Yale (MLS).

[Wuli]

She also anticipated by years the political disruptions arising from what she considers the double standard of affirmative action, as well as from multiculturalism and excessive immigration, particularly from the perspective of many whites as an aggrieved reaction to all of the above.

She foresaw, by years, that “white nationalists” WOULD take those things and try to steer the reactions to them to their own “racial” agendas. Conservatives needed responses to all those things that were inclusive on principle (opportunity is for all), not by pandering with affirmative action to identity groups as the Left & Liberals have done.

Yes, as a “black” woman she has a perspective that the majority of Conservatives otherwise like herself do not. That does not make the foundations of her thinking any less conservative.

[Wuli]

I have months ago.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Heh.

[Freedom4US]

Well it's interesting isn't it, as you point out, that someone could be for example, Black, and a Nationalist.

That means of course they are a Black Nationalist.

But, they aren't a Black Nationalist, that is someone who wants a separate Ethno-state for people of a certain racial characteristic. See the difference? Leftists of course aren't having any of it, who constantly pound the idea that any sort of patriotism or love of country or anything of the sort is automatically BAD. We're supposed to worship government, apparently, at least and until they can collapse the entire system under the weight of a myriad of fundamental contradictions and schizophrenic, Calvin-Ball public policy, and "elites" looting the Treasury after which we become subservient to the "New World Order" or whatever globalist soul-stealing bureaucratic nightmare they have in store

Whites absolutely will go "Tribal", as Dr. Swain points out. Why would anyone expect anything different? There's a certain tautology to the left's arguments that are very telling. They seem to predict with almost a certain glee perhaps, that America will soon become a "Majority Minority" (Yet another contradiction) country soon. This didn't happen by accident, it has long been a deliberate policy, and it begs the question whether it was predicated on the idea of causing turmoil in the first place. Multi-culturism does not have a particularly good track record.

[Wuli]

I wish I could find a WSJ article from not too many weeks ago.

I think it must of been around the 4th of July, and all the vile stuff about standing for the pledge, the national anthem, the American flag and “reparations”.

It was by a “black” American, a self-made businessman in Texas who served the military in WWII when it was segregated.

So, here he is today, someone who has lived with and through the bigotry that some “black” elitists today have never known, and yet he opposes the idea of “reparations” totally and is proud of HIS country, with some bad history behind it and all.

[MinorityRepublican]

Thank you for the links. If she wins the election, it would serve Republicans well to promote her. “Blacks for Trump”.

[litehaus]

Watch out Detoilet,Baltimore Ur getting competition !

[Freedom4US]

The narrative must be maintained at every cost, that blacks are not part of the American dream. That’s why they’ve ramped everything up to eleventy, they want everybody fighting amongst themselves and not casting their eyes on them. It’s all BS 24/7 The candidates debate is perfect example of this. The very same people who screwed everything up beyond belief expect rational beings to believe they are somehow going to “fix it” with yet even more government, and whitey is the source of all the world’s ills. It’s vile and disgusting, and I hope they die in a fire. They deserve it, and more.