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I would speak at every black venue I could attend.

I would talk about how the black community has invested itself with one political party for the past 40 years and still the black condition has not improved.

I would talk about how blacks hold the power to change their own condition, but that power is taken away by liberal politicians who tell them to do nothing and wait for help instead.....help that never comes.

I would talk about how conservatives do not understand blacks because we know that they can achieve anything they want, but instead too many blacks have no aspiration to greatness. Conservatives do not understand how blacks have never been inspired or challenged by liberals to achieve, but instead are told they are victims and should get everything the easy way, if only they would elect more liberals. Then, once elected, those same liberals do not deliver. Why?!

Because greatness cannot be given by someone else, it must be earned by the individual.

Conservatives will never promise blacks an easy road to the promised land because there is no easy road.

Conservatives will tell you that keeping families intact is hard work. Taking responsibility for being a father is hard work. Staying in school is hard work. Avoiding the temptations of drugs and gangs is hard work. Believing you are not a victim is hard work.

Conservatives will not lie about how to achieve greatness, they will tell you exactly how difficult a road it is to travel.

Republicans simply don’t make the requisite effort—they don’t “hustle” enough for the black vote

This very fact is the reason that blacks should vote conservative and not liberal.

Conservatives do not see the populace as people of different colors to be "hustled". They see people with potential that need opportunity, not handouts.

The sea change in the loss of the black vote for Republicans occurred in 1964 when Barry Goldwater voted against the Civil Rights bill. In 1960 the Republicans still garnered fortyfive percent of the black vote. Since then they've been lucky to get twenty percent (usually a lot less) in a prez election. In black voters minds the passage of the 1965 bill was a huge moment in the struggle for progess. And in Goldwater's rejection, it sealed in their minds that the Pubbies were against black progess.

Never mind that more Republicans than Dems (who were most of people trying to stop black voting rights) voted for the civil rights bill or that Goldwater eventually recanted against his 1964 vote. That rejection by Goldwater started a trend of black voters overwhelmingly aligning with the Dem party. That alignment with the Dems was in reality a huge setback for black progess, but it will take a lot more convincing by the GOP to get back the black voters they lost in the sixties.