Press Release; Fourth Annual “Black Republican” Trailblazer Awards Luncheon.

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(ThyBlackMan.com) Washington, DC – Black Americans for a Better Future (BAFBF) announces its Fourth Annual “Black Republican Trailblazer Awards Luncheon™” to be held at The Willard Intercontinental Hotel, 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, on Sunday, February 14, 2016 at 12 Noon.

This year’s celebration includes an entertainment-filled VIP Reception on Saturday, February 13, 2016 as well as the Black Republican Trailblazer Awards Luncheon that will recognize and 2016-Black-Republican-Trailblazers honor a great list of individuals who have truly made a significant impact within America and the Republican Party.

This year’s entertainment includes a performance by local recording artist and District of Columbia native BriaMarie and graduate of the prestigious Atlanta School of the Performing Arts Algebra Blessett who recorded the 2013 hit “Nobody But You.”

The Black RepublicanTrailblazer Awardees for 2016 include:

Jennifer Carroll – Former Florida Lieutenant Governor
Ambassador Harold E. Doley, Jr. – Trailblazing financier
James “Jimmy” Jones – Legendary ABA/NBA Basketball Player
Fred D. McClure – CEO of the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library
Allegra McCullough – Professor, Webster University Graduate School
Robert L. Woodson, Sr. – Founder & President, Center for Neighborhood Enterprise

Several of this year’s honorees have personal stories to share about the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that have never been told publicly; one of the honorees has built a career on working around danger; another one of the honorees is a true Southern Bell, while another is a true Caribbean queen.

“Black Americans for a Better Future” is a 527 Political Action Committee (PAC) founded by longtime Republican political operative, syndicated newspaper columnist and author Raynard Jackson. This PAC is the first and only 527 dedicated to attracting African-Americans to the Republican Party. It’s immediate focus however, is primarily on the African-American entrepreneur.

The goal of this PAC will be to counter those liberal organizations that receive an inordinate amount of media attention and to present a counter narrative to messages given by organizations such as; The People for the American Way, National Council of La Raza, and the Center for American Progress.

Staff Writer; Raynard Jackson

Mr. Jackson is also founder of a political and industrial consultant firm which is based in Washington, DC; Raynard Jackson & Associates.

Marque Anthony says:

February 12, 2016 at 2:40 pm

What’s sad is that we African Americans are still calling ourselves BLACK because Caucasian oppressors called us that to contrast their color and to assign to us all the negative things BLACK is equated with in the dictionary. The fact is, like it or not and believe it or not, YOU ARE BROWN and your car tires are black. You can say black is a culture but when they deal with you, they deal with you based on it’s definition – dismal, gloomy, dark, diabolical, treacherous, devoid of light.

WAKE UP AFRICAN AMERICANS. We do not call the Asian yellow man because he would not stand for it. We do not call the Native American a red man because he would not stand for it. We do not call the Hispanic man a brown man because he would not stand for it. And many Africans, Haitians and Jamaicans do not accept being called a color they know they are NOT.
Ironically, African Americans are the only ethnic group/race on the planet which allows ourselves to be called a color we are not, allowing ourselves to be defined by color, by someone else and to allow ourselves to be attached to a color we are not – a color they filled with negative denotations. Then we fight to help keep the lie in place. Is it any wonder that cops treat us as BLACK people by the definition of dismal, gloomy, treacherous, evil etc?

We will never rise and overcome as a people if we allow other groups to define us, to define us with a lie and we are sadly willing to help them. AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES MATTER PEOPLE. Black is the color of my car tires, not my skin. I am a family and relationship counselor who specializes in deprogramming African Americans from slavery mindsets.