The only black votes I’m concerned about are the ones we don’t have to pander for.
We’ve got the black votes we can win. They are blacks who are independent, conservative, and have intact families, that generally do not live in the urban feral neighborhoods.
These are the decent citizens from that community that do not feel entitled to live off other folks’ money because they think they deserve it and its their reparations from whitey.
I personally know blacks here who vote Republican and I know others who say they are planning to vote GOP because they hate Hillary.
What about this section:
“Chelsi Henry is a young, black lawyer in her twenties who became the first registered Republican in her family. Born to a teen mother, she found the GOP’s message and values to resonate with her because they were the values her mother had instilled in her, including economic personal responsibility. She also cares about issues like school choice. Though Henry has not yet picked a candidate, it is worth noting that Sen. Ted Cruz surprised many by teaming up with black Democrats to push school choice, calling it “the civil rights issue of the 21st century.” With polls showing minority parents statistically more likely to support issues like school choice, since their kids are more likely to be faced with failing public schools, school choice is another issue that may give an opening to a GOP candidate to chip away at black voters in key states, and not just Ted Cruz.”
The black vote is irrelevant for presidential purposes to the GOP. It is too small to begin with, its largest proportions are concentrated in states like Louisiana and Mississippi that the GOP will carry anyway, and the compromises required to gain just a sliver more of the vote would alienate many white voters.
As an electoral matter, it would make a lot more sense to try and capture a few more percentage points of the white electorate (which would swing the election) than a few more points of the black or hispanic electorates (which would not).
I tend to agree with you. For us to win any sizable percentage of the Black vote we would have to pander for it, and I’m tired of watering down conservatism to attract their miniscule number of votes. Better to try and win the votes of second and third generation Hispanics who tend to get more conservative as they assimilate into American culture and Asian voters who are upwardly mobile and successful.
No, the GOP can’t win black votes.
First the GOP will have to realize the concerns of black people.
Pres Reagan and Newt Gingrich helped me become a Conservative Republican. I think had Rand Paul been in the leadership back then I would not have found the GOP so attractive as a Christian/black cause at times he sounds just like Al Sharpton blaming America & not acknowledging personal responsibility.
...the voters who haven’t ever voted Republican
It's common knowledge that until well into the 20th century the black vote was solidly Republican so it raises a red flag for this writer to help perpetuate the myth that blacks never voted that way. If the GOP can't untangle the web of lies, blood libels and slander that won the black vote over to the party of the KKK, they simply should move on and let blacks figure it out on their own.
I also don’t agree with most of this. The GOP should work to get more “minority” votes by articulating our position better. The Irish, Germans, and Italians all used to be minorities. Now they are just Americans. We need to work actively against the divisive “diversity” agenda of liberals and help today’s minorities to see that their best interests are served by the freedom and opportunity that are supposed to be the centerpiece of the conservative agenda.