(ThyBlackMan.com) For years, this writer has tried to understand the mentality of African-Americans who choose to join the Republican Party. I long pondered the thought process of the Black Republican and considered that the choice to join the party was likely motivated by monetary interests. The GOP represents the Ole Boys Club and a ticket to corporate monies and cooperation. Most African-Americans who choose to join the GOP are strong fiscal conservatives who believe in small government. Many of them are social conservatives whom are more propelled to the voting booth by cultural issues than by governing policy.
Still, the Republican Party has been so diminutive to the African-American community at large that it is hard for me to imagine cosigning their actions 
with an “R” on my registration card. I believe that I hold some fiscally conservative values and even some socially conservative ones; I also believe that the Republican Party’s track record on either matter is generally worse than the Democratic Party’s. The GOP has also shown a tremendous willingness to use race in campaign advertisements ad nauseum. They executed a Southern Strategy on Tea Bag Party steroids for a whole year leading up to the 2010 mid-term elections to great effect while being chaired by an apparent African-American named Michael Steele. Mr. Steele and Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas represent the epitome of disregard for what is right for African-Americans in favor of what’s right for themselves personally.
How can they ignore the racial overtones? Surely there’s room in the Democratic Party for fiscal and social conservatives. In fact, they would have an opportunity to act as influencers if they chose to. How can they ignore the poor track record of Reaganomics and the lethality of the War on Drugs prosecuted against their own people? How can they allow the right wing of their party to have a full-fledged Hatefest completely unchecked in the media? Are those conservative values which the GOP obviously has no intention to ever uphold in the best interests of African-Americans? I think not.
Do they know that they count the number of African-American boys in the third grade to measure how many prisons to build for the future? Do they know that Piyoush “Bobby” Jindal used slave “prison” labor to aid British Petroleum in the Louisiana Gulf cleanup effort? They can’t know, for if they did, then surely they would recognize that a black man in chains working for a corporation for free in the hot sun is nothing new in America and surely they would recognize that they belong to the party who would perpetuate this system to its eventual end, the profit maximization of the extermination of the African-American race.
Perhaps they long for some not yet achieved party purity that doesn’t include racial tests. Perhaps they are idealists with a right-wing utopia navigating their subconscious. Whatever their fantasy may be, the Black Republican is aiding in the death march of his own brothers and sisters. She or he believes that we are not targeted by the justice system. They believe in ending Affirmative Action (now that they have made it) and they believe in ending the same public school education that many of them flourished under as did I. I believe that being a Black Republican is an oxymoron because the Republican agenda is demonstrably anti-Black.
Staff Writer; Chris Jeff
