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Conservatives have a healthy distrust of the federal government and believe its powers should be limited to only those enumerated in the U.S. Constitution. To most blacks, however, limited government brings to mind “states’ rights,” which in turn evokes images of Southern whites and their resentment of federal intervention in local affairs during de-segregation.

The rights of the states are at the heart of a good constitutional republic, but blacks won’t easily forget it was the federal government that enforced their civil rights after Reconstruction, got them jobs under the New Deal and protected them from billy clubs, dogs and water hoses in the 1960s. Do you blame them for believing a bloated, central bureaucracy is still savior even in 2004?

This is correct. States Rights were a boot on our necks. Slavery and Jim Crow were defended strongly in the name of States Rights.

Federalism needs strong individual States in order to function properly. But let's be honest. Those who used States Rights for nefarious reasons are the ones who ultimately killed them. They had no one to blame but themselves.

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It really is simple. Conservative blacks that have the ability to be pillors of their communities need to get their heads out of the sand, rise up and tell the people of their communities about liberal lies and deceit for the past 40 years.

All they have to do is hold up pictures of the judicial nominees that the libs filibustered because they had conservative leanings.