Comments on: Liberals And Conservatives Can All Go Straight To Hell.

By: CD Smith

CD Smith — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 17:10:08 +0000

I am black and conservative for the reasons Boyce Watkins listed in this article. The only place we differ is his mis-characterization of conservatives in regard to “keeping the white man on the hook for slavery”.

There is a saying we are all familiar with, “There is no use crying over spilled milk”. If you look closely, white people and American society are paying for the sins of the past everyday without us reminding them. And most importantly, keeping white people on the hook will not change one damn thing.

First we need to turn to God, again, as the source of our strength and identity.

Second, clean our own house, no more excuses.

Third, we as black men need to prepare our families and children to be fierce competitors in American society.

By: Sal

Sal — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 11:21:16 +0000

I enjoyed reading your blog . I was an independent voter till moving to Florida from NY.

I have only seen racist and bigots in the southern republikkkans but esp from the hypocrite so called Christian/Catholic conservatives and Evangelicals.

I will never vote GOP again after seeing the GOP southern voting base.

By: Reaman2

Reaman2 — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 19:40:31 +0000

I find it funny how today’s black conservatives like Clarence Thomas, Juan Williams, Herman Cain and the rest of these 21st century Sambos are afraid to speak to a real black conservative like Louis Farrakhan. As a black man in this society I find myself becoming more like and in step with the NOI because of all the pathetic chaos in the black community. Eventhough I am not a member of the NOI I do believe in their order of structure and self disipline is what black America really needs.

By: lewis orr

lewis orr — Mon, 23 Dec 2013 14:11:18 +0000

I’m somewhat surprised but more delighted we share similar views that don’t fit neatly in anybody’s box. Your ping pong analysis is close to my back and forth good cop bad cop, they both belong to the same police dept. The Democrats and Republicans are a two headed snake with no serious challengers. They both are educated at the same elite schools join the same secret societies and get the same indoctrination. Most if not all are trained lawyers. What one learns in law school is to be impartial and to be able to debate any argument vehemently from both sides. How many and how often have candidates switched back and forth with no loss in funding or their constitutes. I know this doesn’t seem a big deal to many, anyone can change their mind but are they changing their mind or their tactics?
With conservatism we might not see eye to eye. I was taught that conservatism was love of country, family faith and hard work. These were the tenets of conservatism. Now that its morphed into fiscal conservatism with Black fiscal conservatives its become a contentious term, along with socialism and class warfare. I can only imagine what’s the new interpretation of the French Revolution and the American Revolution. I heard Sarah Palin’s rendition of Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride.
One fact 90% of all Blacks in the country were conservatives and Lincoln Republicans, they loved Theodore Roosevelt and voted for Franklin Roosevelt a Democrat only because of his wife Eleanor, who was a strong civil rights advocate and help the Tuskegee Airmen. After Franklin Roosevelt’s death Blacks voted for Ike, a Republican. Only when Kennedy came along offering civil rights and helping Dr. Martin Luther King did the Black vote swing into the Democratic column, before this the Democrats were the Dixicrats with Democrats like George Wallace whose platform was “Segregation today, tomorrow and forever”. So I guess I’ll have to be like the lawyers and politicians and be impartial and be ready to defend my position no matter which side it falls on.