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Electing an African-American chairman may help the GOP with its “black” problem. But black conservatives haven’t exactly done a lot to boost the party’s cred. Real outreach will take more than a splash of color at the top.
The GOP stands poised today to elect its first black party chairman and/or its first black female co-chairman at its annual winter meeting in Washington, D.C.
Whatever happens, most black people will hardly care because most blacks simply do not care what Republicans do. Ninety-six percent of us voted for President Barack Obama, and more than 90 percent of African Americans self-identify as Democrats. If they did care, the party's racially tinged antics, both recent and past, (e.g., sending out “Barack the Magic Negro” CDs) have turned even the most loyal black Republicans (e.g., Colin Powell and others) away from the party of Lincoln.
However, the GOP's real problem with black people is not so much that the white conservatives in the party do not reach out to blacks, but that so-called black conservatives do not do enough outreach to black voters.
Black conservatives as a group, particularly the prominent intellectuals, seem to go out of their way to attack the black community. Consider conservative author Star Parker’s intellectual meditations titled, Pimps, Whores, and Welfare Brats or Uncle Sam’s Plantation. Ouch!
Most black conservative commentators are largely viewed by blacks as opportunistic, attack dogs for the white conservative establishment. This perception is entirely unhelpful in a community that understands that its core interests are in equal access and opportunity, health care and community redevelopment.
In short, black conservatives often can't get a hearing on important issues among blacks because they have positioned themselves as hostile to the interests of black people.
Ward Connerly, who describes himself as “one-quarter black, the rest a mixture of Irish, French and Choctaw,” may be the most despised. Connerly became a wealthy and influential man in California and then used his influence to attack such programs. He is the mastermind behind Proposition 209 and is the founder of the American Civil Rights Institute(which is opposed to so-called race and gender preferences).
Bill Cosby, on the other hand, can be viewed as a “populist conservative,” if you will, and he is generally respected by blacks, even if he has taken heat for some of his more controversial public statements. President Obama has preached very conservative family values—and the need for our black men to become responsible fathers and partners. The reason these two men and others can go into the pulpit or stand on a national platform and command respect on these sensitive issues is because they have proven their connectedness to the community.
The fact is black people are “conservative” (consider that a majority of blacks supported Prop 8 in California, banning gay marriage). But as a community, we can’t stand black conservatives. So where’s the disconnect?
The disconnect is what Michael Steele (GOP chairman hopeful) has spoken of recently in a spate of newspaper interviews—Steele says, "The problem is that within the operations of the RNC, they don't give a damn. It's all about outreach ... and outreach means let's throw a cocktail party, find some black folks and Hispanics and women, wrap our arms around them—'See, look at us,' " he said.
Steele continued, "And then we go back to same old, same old. There's nothing that is driven down to the state party level, where state chairmen across the country, to the extent they don't appreciate it, are helped to appreciate the importance of African Americans and women and others coming and being a part of this party, and to the extent that they do appreciate it, are given support and backup to generate their own programs to create this relationship."
I disagree slightly with Steele. It's not all up to the RNC to reach out to the black community. The black members of the GOP rarely, if ever, stand up and speak out when the party does the wrong thing. Where are the black conservatives when Rush Limbaugh says, “We are being told we have to hope he succeeds, that we have to bend over and grab our ankles ... because his father was black, because this is the first black president, we've got to accept this”? Limbaugh is out of control. He is being overtly racially offensive and both black conservatives and the Republicans in Congress are terrified to denounce him publicly.
As long as the blacks who self-identify as “conservatives” continue to lay down for this nonsense, and continue to attack and alienate themselves from their own community, instead of reaching out, listening and building coalitions within the black community; black voters for the foreseeable future will continue to reject the Republican Party and black conservative ideology.
Sophia Nelson is a regular contributor to The Root.
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It's like as I were McDonalds and I keep telling vegetarians what's wrong with their life. But then saying, well if you would just eat one Big Mac, then we'd be cool.
Republicans want to be Republicans because they've decided, for whatever reason, that's what they want to do. It's not up to people who are on the other side of the street, and who lack the patience or courage to check it out, to dictate the proper terms.
This false idea about 'the interests of black people' is getting too tired. It's like that old tired phrase 'the blacker the college, the sweeter the knowledge' - back in the days just before the tipping point when more blacks when to 'predominantly white' colleges than HBCUs. The same thing was said then - oh those black people are trying to diss the black community.
When are black people going to learn that they don't own black people?
...Earns conservative talk show host mega-dollars, as long as the Prez keeps having sanfus and fubars (Dashale and others), Red Lintball is going to be bankin'. That's why he and they want him to fail!
It seems to me that the arguments in defense of Limbaugh's latest tirade is a non starter; i.e., he's only saying he wants so-called liberal policies to fail. Here's why it is indefensible. Considering the horrendous state of the country/economy and all that is at stake, and considering the Republication monopoly on patriotism, wouldnt it make sense that they would want the country to succeed with whatever policies work? In other words, does it matter which policies they are as long as they work?
What his diatribes suggest is that Republication ideology is more salient than the success of the country. To say that he wants the policies to fail because they are bad for the country seems to me, with all due respect, oxymoronic (and plain mean-spirited). The danger for him with such an argument is that any success that is fomented by these policies is bad for the country simply because it came via so-called liberal policies. Talk about egg on one's face. Come on people, a little critical thinking....please.
One last point, since the U.S. has had republication leadership for the last 8 years, its beyond me how he can continue to argue so vehemently for them....though I suspect he has an explanation for the past years.
For those who question why any blacks would align ourselves with the GOP, think about this...
Sometimes you need to "sit at the table" with your adversaries in order to make change. The Civil Rights movement would not have been successful if our elders had not had not used this tactic. Let's not be so quick to assume that black conservatives are not aware of the negative elements in the GOP. We are not conservative because we are Uncle Toms. These elements also exist in the Democratic Party but we often don't question the party leaders on their motives.
I made a decision to join the GOP for this reason. Yes, there is a racist group of folks in the party, just like there are some in the Democratic Party. This came to light (finally) in the last election when Hillary began winning the late primaries.
I have a hope that the GOP will eventually return to its roots where it was the party that supported civil rights (and implemented most of the policies) and embraced the issues facing the black community. Read a good book called, "Unfounded Loyalty". It's about how the Republican Party lost black support and the Democratic Party capitalized on it. I also believe in conservative principles and would rather work to make change in the GOP than return to the Democratic Party which is being infiltrated by a more radical left element. Efforts to change may fail but some of us have to try.
Michael Steele's recent electionad the Chair gives myself and other black conservatives some hope. If he shakes up the party structure then I'll have a reason to keep my seat at the table. If he does not, then what few of us black folk left "at the table" will likely leave and the GOP will crumble, as it will then deserve to.
until the GOP decides to rid itself of its old, racist base-remember the McCain/ Palin rallies that almost went to a lynch mob fervor-it will be looked at, and seen as a haven for divisiveness and racial and ideological separatism. Why any Black would want to allign themselves with this party the way it exists now needs their head examined......