(ThyBlackMan.com) While few things in politics are certain, one thing that has held true over the past several decades is that African Americans will vote Democratic.
And while African Americans’ relationship with Democrats has become highly publicized marriage, a rising chorus of African American liberals and independents are quick to highlight Democrats’ exploitation of the Black voter, campaigning to the concerns of the community only to forsake the things that matter to African Americans once they are in office.
This is one of the major gripes African Americans have with current president Barack Obama, who despite having attracted 96 percent of the Black vote in the last election, seems to be losing support from many in the community unsatisfied with his first term.
This backlash of sorts has led many to demand a Republican alternative. This backlash is exactly why Herman Cain, despite not being a Democrat, became popular. But Herman Cain was still largely a status quo candidate.
For African American looking for an alternative to the current administration, while also avoiding handing their vote over to the same as us
ual Republican field, the question remains: Why not Ron Paul?
African Americans have been conditioned to accept the two-party rule that has become of America’s political system; Paul represents a splintering of the old guard.
Since assuming office in 1997, Ron Paul, the Congressman from Texas’s 14th congressional district, has become popular for his Libertarian ideals, often differing from both Republican and Democratic Party stances.
The New York Times described Ron Paul as “the kind of conservative that Tea Partiers want to believe themselves to be: Deeply principled, impressively consistent, a foe of big government in nearly all its forms (the Department of Defense very much included), a man of ideas rather than of party.”
And yet the latest Iowa polls show Newt Gingrich leading by a mere point at 22 to 21 percent respectively.
Undoubtedly, the Republican label attached to Ron Paul and his campaign scares many African Americans, who have for generations voted Democratic, but by no means is he a traditional conservative.
Instead, many of his most liberal stances have been buried by Republicans who label him to radical and by Democrats who in most instances have acted virtually identical to their Republican counterparts.
Why not Paul, when, in many instances, Ron Paul’s voting record and political leanings have been more progressive and in-line with Black America’s than Barack Obama’s. For instance, when Paul a free-market evangelist and staunch opponent of corporate welfare railed against the hundreds of billions in bailout money big business received in the wake of financial crisis.
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