DrBanneker
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I respect the sisters in this video and have always been gracious to those with views that oppose my own. We need ideological diversity.
However....this same story has been played for the last 50 years about how Black conservatives feel so isolated and alone and unwelcome, like Black people are burning their houses or something. Where is my violin?
The fundamental issue is while old school 'conservatism' with emphasis on family, business, community, etc. offers a lot to Blacks, modern (post Goldwater) conservatism pays lip service to this but is fueled by a tide of anger and resentment---based in the Civil Rights victories and often aimed at us.
I am a business owner, a gun owner, churchgoer, a married man with kids, and above the median income. I have never voted Republican for national office (though some local ones that had a good agenda). I am not on the Democratic plantation but I have to have something besides somebody telling me 'Liberals are evil' and they are mad at people on welfare. Literally, conservatism needs to get off the whole Liberals are the root of all evil extremism. This is why we have Trump now.
I have read a bunch of Black conservative books, etc. and one of my biggest problems is that the Black conservatives of yesterday (Jesse Owens, Booker T, Marcus Garvey, many others) demanded better of Black people but had an uplifting message and helped build institutions. I seriously have to search HARD to find a Black conservative these days that doesn't seem hell bent on slandering and demeaning Black people worse than any White conservative would dare. It's column after column of nikkas ain't shyt (why aren't you like Jews/Asians etc.) and I think you deserve your fate. It's as if they wish the Black underclass would fall off the face of the Earth. This is not 'tough love'; it is bolstering your credentials by beating down your own people.
Show me the schools they have built, businesses (small ones not just big business) they have helped start in downtrodden communities, and community grassroots initiatives they are doing and they will get the votes and acceptance. That's the key problem, they demand acceptance, even leadership, but don't want to do the hard and thankless work of building institutions and having successes that would show our community the Democrats aren't the only way. Frederick Douglass and Booker T did these things and this is why they dominated Black though for almost 100 years in total. Instead they want to write books, op-eds, and make speeches about how the Liberals have messed everything up (and in fairness Liberals have done some ill shyt) and how Black people are sheeple for not swallowing their line. They demand we be independent and not rely on 'White guilt' while they all work for White owned and controlled think tanks (besides a few in academia). It's like a powerful independent Black conservatism is a big no-no. This is sad since a large independent Black conservative base could do good things for the Black community.
I don't like Blacks universally voting Democrat. But Blacks once were solidly Republican and that didn't change because of welfare and food stamps. Republicans decided on the Southern Strategy and then bytch they lose the Black vote.
Finally, Black Republicans (like Black Democrats) need to stop being so party loyal. It drove me NUTS when Republican friends felt compelled to defend torture, Patriot Act, and the neocon craziness of Bush. Now they are falling in line with Trump?? I guess there are two plantations
However....this same story has been played for the last 50 years about how Black conservatives feel so isolated and alone and unwelcome, like Black people are burning their houses or something. Where is my violin?
The fundamental issue is while old school 'conservatism' with emphasis on family, business, community, etc. offers a lot to Blacks, modern (post Goldwater) conservatism pays lip service to this but is fueled by a tide of anger and resentment---based in the Civil Rights victories and often aimed at us.
I am a business owner, a gun owner, churchgoer, a married man with kids, and above the median income. I have never voted Republican for national office (though some local ones that had a good agenda). I am not on the Democratic plantation but I have to have something besides somebody telling me 'Liberals are evil' and they are mad at people on welfare. Literally, conservatism needs to get off the whole Liberals are the root of all evil extremism. This is why we have Trump now.
I have read a bunch of Black conservative books, etc. and one of my biggest problems is that the Black conservatives of yesterday (Jesse Owens, Booker T, Marcus Garvey, many others) demanded better of Black people but had an uplifting message and helped build institutions. I seriously have to search HARD to find a Black conservative these days that doesn't seem hell bent on slandering and demeaning Black people worse than any White conservative would dare. It's column after column of nikkas ain't shyt (why aren't you like Jews/Asians etc.) and I think you deserve your fate. It's as if they wish the Black underclass would fall off the face of the Earth. This is not 'tough love'; it is bolstering your credentials by beating down your own people.
Show me the schools they have built, businesses (small ones not just big business) they have helped start in downtrodden communities, and community grassroots initiatives they are doing and they will get the votes and acceptance. That's the key problem, they demand acceptance, even leadership, but don't want to do the hard and thankless work of building institutions and having successes that would show our community the Democrats aren't the only way. Frederick Douglass and Booker T did these things and this is why they dominated Black though for almost 100 years in total. Instead they want to write books, op-eds, and make speeches about how the Liberals have messed everything up (and in fairness Liberals have done some ill shyt) and how Black people are sheeple for not swallowing their line. They demand we be independent and not rely on 'White guilt' while they all work for White owned and controlled think tanks (besides a few in academia). It's like a powerful independent Black conservatism is a big no-no. This is sad since a large independent Black conservative base could do good things for the Black community.
I don't like Blacks universally voting Democrat. But Blacks once were solidly Republican and that didn't change because of welfare and food stamps. Republicans decided on the Southern Strategy and then bytch they lose the Black vote.
Finally, Black Republicans (like Black Democrats) need to stop being so party loyal. It drove me NUTS when Republican friends felt compelled to defend torture, Patriot Act, and the neocon craziness of Bush. Now they are falling in line with Trump?? I guess there are two plantations
, just asking for her face to be razored and labeled c00n. She probably grew up with an involved father and grandfather too!
; and that gross DoD/DMV welfare made possible by the blood sweat and tears of enlistees from Republican states. This attitude trickles from the Hill to the projects: