(ThyBlackMan.com) Herman Cain, businessman and declared candidate for the GOP 2012 presidential nomination, puts a face on the resurgence of Black Conservatism sweeping America. Representing a group sometimes called the “minority in a minority” and “marginalized of the marginalized,” Cain is bringing national attention to those many thought extinct.
While, like all conservatives, I could care less about a person’s race; make no mistake about it, there is a political civil war brewing in the Black 
community!
The historic 2008 election of President Barack Obama, who garnered an astonishing 95% of the Black vote, had an adverse effect on Black politics. It is as if his radical policies awakened the proverbial sleeping giant.
In 2009, Michael Steele was elected the first Black chairman of the Republican National Committee. During Steele’s tenure, he engaged in a massive outreach initiative to the Black community. The effort proved fruitful in 2010 as thirty-two Black Republicans ran for Congress – the most since Reconstruction. Of those thirty-two, Tim Scott (SC) and Allen West (FL) serve in the 112th Congress of the United States.
There is still much ground for the movement to cover before it can make major plays in urban America, but the tide is shifting in its favor. (1) The Black community is fed up with the broken promises and failed policies resulting from their allegiance to one party; (2) There is no post-Obama presidency agenda or persona to replicate his GOTV success; and (3) A promising 24% of Blacks consider themselves politically conservative, though only 11% voted for Bush in 2004. This presents an opportunity to pick up another 13% of the Black vote, which could swing close elections in favor of Republicans.
The Black Conservative post-Obama presidency agenda is already under way. Prior to the advent of Facebook and Twitter, their voice was regulated by print, radio and television gatekeepers. Today, they are blitzing the blogosphere, pontificating on online radio, elbowing their way into historically Black newspapers, and building multi-cultural organizations based off historic Black figures. Urban America is listening to them, and their common sense solutions to forty years of failure are raising questions in the minds of the people who are most sick of suffering.
Whether Mr. Cain can emerge victorious in the GOP primary is unclear. What is clear is that Herman Cain’s candidacy is good for the Republican Party and will catapult the group of marginalized minorities onto the national stage.
Written By Rev. Isaac Hayes
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