Posted on 10/10/2019 1:52:32 PM PDT by Kaslin
This past weekend, I spoke for the second time at the second annual Black Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., hosted by Turning Point USA. Turning Point was founded in 2012 by then-18-year-old Charlie Kirk. Its website describes its goal as seeking "to identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote the principles of freedom, free markets, and limited government."
In addition to the Black Leadership Summit, Turning Points holds other annual gatherings, including the Young Women's Leadership Summit, the Young Latino Leadership Summit and the Student Action Summit. Turning Point, according to Kirk, has established chapters at over 1,000 college campuses across the country. In a short time, the organization has become quite a force.
In an interview with Business Insider, Kirk asked: "Have you ever seen a conservative shout down a liberal speaker on campus? Isn't that kind of strange, though, that the left does that every day and conservatives don't?" He argues: "We live in a broken culture. Where the conservative movement is making gains really quick and where the left is really struggling right now is that we are offering remedies for a broken culture."
Not too surprisingly, Turning Point is not without controversy. A column in the conservative Washington Examiner written by a college senior insists: "TPUSA is initially attractive to many young people due to the organization's savvy marketing using memes, posters, and catchy slogans such as 'socialism sucks.' And at first glance, this may seem like a good thing for the conservative movement.
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Yup they just need to start running for office locally, regionally, and nationally sooner than later.
The best example today of Black Conservatives is Candace Owens:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsCbLSqz85s
Wow!
I think Candace Owens should be the keynote speaker at the RNC convention next year.
Yes!!! Good idea. She’d be fantastic at the RNC as Keynote.
If you haven’t seen her shut down a snotty blonde Ivory Tower Bigot essentially implying White Supremacist are everywhere, this is Candace at her finest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cUQqPxw3hc
I agree.
Agreed. One of the problems is that if they’re conservatives, they are considered non-black or “race traitors” by the left and then they have targets painted on their backs.
So white and Hispanic conservatives have got to give them a lot of support, because it takes a lot of courage to do what they’re doing.
So are we going to have a white leadership conference too? This double mindedness on race is not only troubling but also disingenuous.
Networks turn off their cameras when non-whites are speaking at a republican convention.
It’s a sad reality, but one we cannot deny exists and was created by the Left. These people are ostracized by the Left and made to feel like they are all alone and must remain hidden. This group and those like it can show them they are not all alone and they can come out of the shadows and have a support group - and if they can grow in prominence and break the stranglehold / oppression the Left has over the minorities in this country, one day perhaps this can come to an end and we can be the human race we are meant to be instead of this.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3785185/posts
The Rise of Young Black Conservatives
Townhall.com ^ | October 10, 2019 | Larry Elder
HOORAY Americans!
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