GOP FACES LACK OF BLACK HOPEFULS

The Washington Times ^ | October 29, 2002 | Valerie Richardson

[jstone78]

{"....The meaning that I took from jstone's statement was that he was pointing at that fringe element -- who themselves usually call themselves neo-cons...."}

You are correct.

I was not indicting all neo-cons as being "anti-black". Former HUD Secretary, Jack Kemp, the one Republican leader who has done more than any other to reach out to blacks, is widely regarded as a neo-con. And I have great respect for him.

And I was not implying that all conservatives or paleoconservatives are nice people. There are some very vile and nasty Paleocons and "religious right" activists out there.

But, ironically, some interesting things have happened in the last decade. Paleocons have always been labelled as "racists" by liberals and neo-cons, and have in recent years tried to focus more on constitutional and economic issues, rather than the racial wedge issues they often talked about in the 1970s. Neo-cons on the other hand, are former liberals who were not always trusted by other conservatives, and have been trying to prove how "politically-incorrect" they can be in their rhetoric, by focusing on racially inflammatory issues.

Are you familiar with the infamous incident in 1995, which resulted in two distinguished black conservatives, Glenn Loury and Robert Woodson, resigning from the neo-conservative organization, the American Enterprise Institute?

[jstone78]

{"....Look at FR members who throw out the term "neo-con" at the drop of a hat. These are the same ones who will say some of the most outlandishly bigotted things on this site. These would be the so-called "paleo-cons," which I view as nothing more than old Dixiecrats...."}

Just one minor correction. The so-called "Dixiecrats" are former members of the Democratic Party from the 1950s and 1960s, and have absolutely nothing to do Paleo-conservative or "Old Right" intellectual thought. Paleo-cons consider themselves followers of the philosophical tradition of former Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio, who was liked by many blacks in his state.

The Dixiecrats are what can be described as "George Wallace Democrats". There are a few of them on this forum. Most do not know or care about principals of constitutional government, economic reform, foreign policy, etc. They mainly focus on promoting outdated racial stereotypes. But their extreme racial views have nothing to do with Paelo-conservative intellectual thought.

The fact that some of those George Wallace and David Duke Democrats, also have complaints about "neo-cons", does not make them Paleo-conservatives.

[jstone78]

Another thing. George Schuyler (1895-1977), a black journalist, is regarded as one of the most important of the Paelo-con thinkers.

Here is an article he wrote in 1926, in a literary debate he had with the legendary Langston Hughes, on Black Art and the Harlem Renaissance: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5129/

[rdb3]

In those days, it didn't matter what kind of "conservative" a black man happened to be.

Be that as it may, would it be too much to ask that you drop the labeling and bloodletting on our side?

Enough is enough. Either you are a conservative who shares the goal of destroying the Left, or you are not.

No label is needed here.

[mhking]

Enough is enough. Either you are a conservative who shares the goal of destroying the Left, or you are not.

No label is needed here.

Preach on, bruh, preach on!

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks for the ping, my friend