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 can’t be both.
Most blacks are conservative by nature and by upbringing. “Real” blacks don’t 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 doesn’t 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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PING!
“When blacks hear the word conservatism, we hear Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms, segregationist senators from South Carolina and North Carolina, respectively.”
Neither Jesse Helms or Strom Thurmond were Segregationists.
I stopped reading at the words “black community.”
Collectivists don’t believe in freedom or individual achievement, just free stuff from the Demacrats plantation.
Stopped reading right there. Total BS!
TIME TO BRING THIS UP
During the period after the civil war known as reconstruction black legislators who were Republican were elected in the south To stop this democrats came up with segregation poll taxes and Jim Crow laws and the KKK.....
As a matter of fact, conservatives force “real” blacks to make a false choice: to be black or conservative, as though we can’t be both.
Stopped reading right there. Total BS!
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Yes, BS to the tenth degree.
Nor were they former Klansmen, if I'm not mistaken.
“We have a hard time being conservative because conservatives don’t pander to us like the liberals do.”
So black conservatives are uncle Tom?
I've been a Republican for all of my life, over 60 years as an adult. I've attended many Republican-sponsored events.I can only juidge how welcome blacks are in the party by the way blacks were welcomed to those various events. My impressions were that they were very welcome. I guess that excludes community outreach such as President Trump has tried to do.
Reality check:
“I want to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there’s not enough troops in the army to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigger race into our theatres into our swimming pools into our homes and into our churches.”—
Democratic Governor Strom Thurmond
of South Carolina speaking in 1948
Considering myself to be part of the “white community” would be racist, right?
That cuts both ways.
Well Abraham Lincoln was a Republican and tens of thousands of Republicans died during the Civil War. The Republicans also or working in the south after the war to combat the KKK and the Jim Crow laws. Know the real truth is that the schools and the media don’t tell the story of the Republican Party accurately.
Conservatives treat people as individuals, not as groups. We don’t use identity politics as the building blocks of the party. Anyone who believes in conservative principles is welcome.
It could have been better written for understanding for readers who haven’t lived in a black community, but it would be wise to try to understand. Everyone is racist to some extent or other, but the first step towards welcoming more black people to conservative political action is to avoid generalizing about black people.
And no, I’m not black at all in any way. But I have lived in a black community and learned that many black people are conservative. Many of them don’t vote. That’s because they aren’t welcomed by enough truly wise people in either party.
Lefties are just as clueless, by the way, even though they do pander much.
I understand plenty - which is why I am not persuaded by this propaganda.
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