A writer named Darryl Cox mentioned me in an article on BlackElectorate.com. Who is he? Beats me. I’m quotable? Apparently so:
One black conservative analyst, La Shawn Barber, recently attributed the sway that Democrats have over black voters to “years of damage caused by liberal ideology and misinformation pumped into the black community for the past 25 years.” Barber conveniently forgets or may be too young to remember that the black vote was in play during the 1960 presidential contest between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy; neither candidate took black voters for granted despite the fact that blacks were increasingly voting for Democrats in the national elections.
I forgot or may have been too young to remember the American Revolution, so I guess I won’t write about it anymore.
I don’t agree with Cox’s premise at all (surprise!): “Black Republicans need to get off the talk show circuit and begin doing real political work in the black community if they expect to gain the support of black voters.”
So typical. Nobody’s going to tell me what to do or where to go or what to say or how to say it. Liberals are under the erroneous impression that they get to define the terms and decide the method and substance of the discourse. I have no interest in getting in the “trenches” (time to get out!) or parroting liberal “outreach” or addressing “black issues” on their terms. That’s part of the problem.
It’s time for a new paradigm.
Let me say this for the record: I don’t “secrete… sweat and angst” about black voters, and I don’t have any “anxiety” about them, either. And Cox had to use the word “lonely” in reference to black conservatives. Oh boy. I won’t get started on that. I wrote about it months ago in a post about the “lonely”, lovely Condoleezza Rice. Check it out.
I saw Cox’s article on BlackElectorate.com this morning and didn’t bother to read it. I’m glad Booker Rising’s post changed my mind.
