Posted on 09/30/2019 9:01:15 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Over the years, many prominent conservatives have asked me why blacks are not more involved in the Republican Party and the conservative movement.
The answer is very simple: Conservatives have shown no demonstrable indication to the black community that we are welcomed by the party or the conservative movement.
As a matter of fact, conservatives force real blacks to make a false choice: to be black or conservative, as though we cant be both.
Most blacks are conservative by nature and by upbringing. Real blacks dont check their blackness at the door when they join a conservative group.
We still know and experience racism whenever we leave our homes. We still sometimes hear and experience racial insensitivities when we go to meetings of conservatives.
Is this done on purpose? Of course not, but it happens because the few blacks whom conservative surround themselves with tend not to have any connection to the black community.
They tend to be blacks who will go out in public and say things that a white person can only dream of being able to say and get away with it.
These are the blacks who claim they see no color; they claim racism doesnt exist. They never miss an opportunity to criticize Al Sharpton. But they always seem to get a sudden case of laryngitis when a conservative says something negative or inappropriate about the black community.
Conservatives tend to surround themselves with blacks who make them feel comfortable, as opposed to blacks who can help them move the conservative agenda forward.
But before we can move the conservative agenda forward, we must first rehabilitate the meaning and brand of the word conservatism.
When blacks hear the word conservatism, we hear Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms, segregationist senators from South Carolina and North Carolina, respectively.
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65 average IQ.
Only a racist would pose that question.
The first thing you see when you see another human being is their skin color.
Pervert.
While I agree in principle with your dissertation, I must point out that the overwhelming majority of senior Freepers are NEVER wrong when they say lemme guess. Fair? Maybe not, but the nonetheless.
Hmmm. Dont know where that went
While I agree in principle with your dissertation, I must point out that the overwhelming majority of senior Freepers are NEVER wrong when they say lemme guess. Fair? Maybe not, but the nonetheless.
But that’s not really the point, is it? We all know the statistics. It’s the glee or self-satisfaction with which they announce their findings.
I and understand that. Maybe its the self satisfaction of their prejudices being right? Idk. I wish more of the black community strove to prove them wrong though instead of embracing radical BLM ideology.
Sorry Im trying to read, text and keep my farm growing. Lol. I never proof read.
It could be “satisfaction” that you see, or it could be rage against the lying media year after year, decade after decade. We know who commits crime in this country. We know what it’s like to live in crime free places without them, we also know that the people charged with accurately reflecting truth in our society lie about it every damn day and intent to continue lying for centuries.
Barring the occasional lockstep a$$holes who just enjoy letting go with a zinger, I think it’s mainly just people who don’t think deeply enough about other people and their individual life experiences.
I doubt that there is any Black person in the US who hasn’t experienced mindless or thoughtless ‘racism’ at some point in their lives.
We have to make sure we are not part of that. It actually takes effort to put oneself in another’s shoes and try to see things from the viewpoint of THEIR experience.
“Barring the occasional lockstep a$$holes who just enjoy letting go with a zinger, I think its mainly just people who dont think deeply enough about other people and their individual life experiences.”
Mainly yes, but I think a few are pro saboteurs.
“I doubt that there is any Black person in the US who hasnt experienced mindless or thoughtless racism at some point in their lives.”
Sure, no doubt. I’ve experienced all kinds of thoughtless shit throughout my life.
Sometimes from Blacks.
“We have to make sure we are not part of that. It actually takes effort to put oneself in anothers shoes and try to see things from the viewpoint of THEIR experience.”
Agree. In context of this thread:
“Conservatives” aren’t like liberals. We don’t have tactics/talking points handed down to us for deployment, ex: “make blacks feel welcome”.
We’re a herd of cats. Blacks are welcome, anyone’s welcome, don’t ask for special attention and don’t cry ‘racism’ when you don’t get it.
I lived in Central Brooklyn in the 1970s, and other parts of NYC for 30 years.
I now live in the ME-NH-VT tristate area.
I understand perfectly well, thanks.
The violent crime rate by blacks is a fact, and one that has many and serious ramifications in American politics, not the least of which is the ongoing assault on our natural right to own firearms. Ignoring it is foolish.
Who taught them that?
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