I like your site. You’re amusing.

See, what did I tell you. When I first discovered your blog, and was compelled by it’s excellent content to send a comment; (thank you for the reply) I seem to recall saying that we would hear a LOT more from you in the future.

I feel well and truly vindicated now that you have been promoted from really good blogger to “analyst”, and are now apparrently an irritant to the B squad liberal punditry class.

Congratulations. Tomorrow the World. Keep up the great work.

Take care!

Jim

Look, the action’s on the street. Not from afar. The soldiers in Iraq that are making a difference are the grunts. The ones directly interfacing with the Iraqis. Not a general from afar. Maybe that’s a bad analogy but hey, it works.

I was a gang member. A thugged-out, dope-dealin’, bloodthirsty, insane in the membrane brotha. Prison time didn’t change me. Two men (one black and one white) did. They came at me direct and showed me a better way. Now if I can change, why can’t a black liberal/Democrat change.

The reason why I advocate black conservatives and Republicans get out in the ‘hood is because there you will be able to confront the issues head-on. Heck, you may even find common ground with black liberals. But it has to be at the grass roots level. We have a political system built on interests. That’s the way it is. Then work it.

This is what I don’t get. I can’t help but think this is an indirect jab at me because you know how I am about being insulted on my own blog. If that’s the case, why not go hang out at the blogs of the “humans” who don’t hit people “over the head” with their views? Why come on my site every night and complain about my views and the way I express them?

Nobody gets hit over the head by me. I write a column and operate a blog that people can choose to read or reject. If you don’t like my opinions, don’t go away mad. Just go away.

However, you do know how they stand, overtime. And they get respect.

See Michael Steele for details.
I’m serious.

S-Train and molotov get daps from me.

Republicans go after the Jewish vote which is 80-85% for Democrats. But they keep plugging away.

But it’s different with Blacks?

OK.

I’m willing to listen to why my idea is no good. Frankly, I’d never given it much thought until I began studying Mr. Cox’s argument. I must point out, though, that campaigning for “Christian conservatives, or NRA members, or small business owners” is different than campaigning for members of a particular race. It seems to me that that small difference is really all the difference in the world, and is all the difference in everything America stands for.

From atop the idealogical soapbox- My country tis of thee and all that- I’m signing off.

Election time was nearing and a Negro Republican precinct captain asked me to help him round up votes. I had no interest in the candidates, but I needed the money. I went from door to door with the precinct captain and discovered that the whole business was one long process of bribery, that people voted for three dollars, for the right to continue their illicit trade in sex or alcohol. On election day I went into the polling booth and drew the curtain behind me and unfolded my ballots. As I stood there the sordid implications of politics flashed through my mind. “Big Bill” Thompson headed the local Republican machine and I knew that he was using the Negro vote to control the city hall; in turn, he was engaged in vast political deals of which the Negro voters, political innocents, had no notion. With my pencil I wrote in a determined scrawl across the face of the ballots:

I Protest This Fraud

I knew that my gesture was futile. But I wanted somebody to know that out of that vast sea of ignorance in the Black Belt there was at least one person who knew the game for what it was. I collected my ten dollars and went home. [p. 298]

Just can’t figure it out….since when has being a black republican meant being a practicing, card-carrying member of Sheepherders Union for willfully blind and/or lost black sheep??

We’re human!! We got brains!! We know how to vote!! I think……..never mind.

If we don’t wanna get onboard the “I am an AMERICAN” bandwagon, and are too dumb to vote in our best interests…….the hell with it. The only time we’ve been on the right side of elections in recent memory are the 92 & 96 presidental elections. We helped elect the 1st black president….memba dat? Sent from heaven above, that Clinton pioneer.

And the Cox’s of the world always love to convenietly forget black americans from 1865-1965….CONSERVATIVE!!!! If the negro couldn’t or wouldn’t stand, he fell. Period.

Then came The Great White Hope – WHITE LIBERALS – in the mid 60s to start replacing black families and morality, little-by-little, with Uncle Sam $$$$$s. Gradually since the mid 60s: politics = our religion, money = our morality. Liberals preying on human weakness to help the poor, can’t manage blacks.

We, for the most part & in our 60s militant glory/greed, were not bright enough to go past Stage 1 thinking to foresee our liberal decay – and not co op this…..so we continue to vote accordingly, clearly loving this decay.

Now, black republicans need to go doggin behind blacks that got amnesia? They have lost their way, now it’s our responsiblity to “court” them back? On foot? In da hood?
We must don’t need the NAACP no mo.

Courting the black vote?…….HAH!! Don’t waste your time.

Court the American vote.

I take you for example La Shawn. A person of your convictions and beliefs can definately have an impact on the black street if your there “workin’ it”. Not from a distance, but right there. Of course I’m not telling you what to do, BUT for those black conservatives and black Republicans that can do it, get out there in the community and change opinion. That’s how you get votes.

We assume that the primary target audience of black conservatives and moderates are black folks. Why are so many folks thus only seen on “The O’Reilly Factor” and “Hannity & Colmes,” when the action is on BET and urban radio? To persuade your target audience, one must first reach them. The FOX News shows are pretty much akin to not reaching black masses since few black folks watch them. We can’t influence ideas in black communities, if we ain’t reaching black folks where they are likeliest to hear our message!

And yes, until the GOP and black Republicans increase the number of viable black candidates in black districts, GOP support among blacks will remain low. We regularly say that the GOP allows the Democratic Party to have its virtual monopoly in black communities because it (and black Republicans) lacks the cajones to do the hard work to make it possible.

I’m a pragmatic moderate-conservative, in the Booker T. Washington mold. He didn’t sit on the sidelines, tossing verbal grenades but doing little to change actual situations. Booker took his message straight to the people — where they actually are — and cut out the middle man as much as possible. He had his movable school throughout the South. He went into very rural black communities to spread his self-reliance message. Many folks may diss him today, but they certainly don’t diss the fact that he was a doer. Don’t get me wrong, we need black conservative and moderate thinkers. However, we need a lot more doers right now.

Black conservatives and moderates — regardless of our political party, or none at all — must change our paradigm, because the old way ain’t been very effective in influencing black social life and politics. To make change in more black communities, we must get far more aggressive, go toe-to-toe with liberals, illustrate our alternative vision, and implement it on the ground. That is how change occurs in black communities. That is how folks from the Christian Coalition to liberal Democrats influence stuff in USA.

Liberals have for far too long framed the debate. What’s worse, they look at votes as some sort of massive buyout, i.e. they think “What can I give this group to gain their vote?” It’s so antithetical to American principles that I almost want to laugh.

Liberal Democracy isn’t strictly about votes. It’s not about majority rule. If the majority votes for slavery, clearly slavery is still not made legitimate.

Here’s something that the Left just doesn’t get: Freedom. Forget pandering to people. Forget buying votes. Think: ideas! What a wonderful political atmosphere we could have if both parties were concerned about ideas and their full ramifications. Unfortunately, only one party is.

Liberals put too much faith in the “Democracy” aspect of our country, and not enough faith in the values of the “liberal” aspect of it. The “liberal” aspects of free enterprise and individual rensponsibility are what makes our government truly special. And what’s more, the most incredible thing is not that we vote, but that our laws are structured around the principle that the minority must be protected from tyranny of the majority.

As Ayn Rand once said, “the smallest minority on earth is the individual.”