Comments on: Young Black Republicans who deny their Blackness.

By: CD Smith

CD Smith — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 17:01:50 +0000

Blackness as defined by Black Liberals – Always willing to stick it to white man. A person that never let whitey off the hook.

That is all it takes in a nutshell to keep your “Black” card. This is why it is possible for a white liberal to achieve “Blackness”. How stupid is that??

As a Black conservative, I am tired of that strategy and philosophy. It will never work. It is not a motivator. It is another level of control inflicted upon Blacks by other Blacks. Maybe this is why the black people referred to in the article are to themselves, to have some peace.

Listen Malcom X’s speech, “The Bullet or the Ballet” to hear why he considered blacks who mindlessly vote “Democrat” as traders to their race.

By: Marcus Vessey

Marcus Vessey — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 17:14:40 +0000

Raynard, great article. I think a large part of the lack of collaborative networking amongst Black Republicans is in large part because of the premise of the Black conservative movement. This makes that form of association a catch 22.

Because they want to neuter race as an adjective (they in many cases should be called conservative Blacks instead of Black conservatives the location of the adjective and verb is important) to then associate as a group of “Blacks” diminishes their platform of race neutrality (which is only a surface belief anyway).

I know a few brothers and sisters who are Black conservatives and they are all good people and they all really believe that key ideological positions that they take are what will work best for Black folks in American over the long run.

To a degree I can’t even really blame them. The promise of the Democratic party has yielded little fruit over the last 40 years.

By: Terrance Amen

Terrance Amen — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 07:31:11 +0000

Thank you Brother Jackson for your honest talk about young Black republicans. Although I’m not a republican and probably will never be for the same reasons you point out in your article and the many others you didn’t. I do appreciate your honesty. I believe before we can get what we need from politics, we need to become more organized in controlling the education, and economics in our community. Then and only then will we be able to work together for the good of our community.

Black Unity means financial independence and happiness