Our political landscape has been hijacked by race. And we all know the hijackers. One can clearly identify racialists like Jesse Jackson, Jeremiah Wright, Van Jones and Barack Obama through their thread-bare ski-masks of social justice. But it's all a lie—a carefully crafted lie designed to re-enslave generations of voters to a political party more interested in accumulating power than serving God, justice, or our Constitution.
Let's start with perception. Here's a very short list of prominent Republicans who just happen to be black: Martin Luther King.
That's right. You probably never learned that in school. This
article from Human Events is chock full of facts most people probably don't know about the civil rights era, facts most teachers will never teach. And this
article on Black & Right provides a fantastic timeline of Republican leadership and Democratic resistance to civil rights.
My nephew is a senior at St. Louis' most highly regarded public school. He'll graduate as an A student this Spring. He had never heard that MLK was a Republican. It's an "inconvenient truth" that's a little too hard for the teacher union liberals to tell. Explaining to a bunch of doe-eyed school kids that Democrats were the ones in favor of slavery, segregation and maintaining "the purity of the races" is not likely to help turn school kids into the desired army of Democratic college student activists.
Generations (my own included — as a child of the 70s) have been snowed into thinking that liberals are the party of racial inclusion. They've worked really hard for that brand identity, so any threat to that brand must be personalized, frozen and polarized. So conservatives are branded racists and Nazis. Never mind that Hitler was a socialist.
From the 60s civil rights era, flash forward to the present. The black "community" hasn't been in worse shape since the civil war. The fabric of the black family, once the core of its strength, has been reduced to a cancerous, self-perpetuating cycle of single-parent families with dead, jailed or otherwise absent fathers. Re-enslaved to government social programs, the low expectations of affirmative action, and the lure of easy money in drugs and criminality. They blame white society, and the mainstream media peddles the Democratic Party as the only cure.
The American voters were finally presented with an opportunity to prove to the world that we are not racists as portrayed. Unfortunately, the first chance we were given was a half-black candidate with no executive experience, Marxist leanings, and a history of association with racist and terrorist America haters. And we elected him anyway, making Obama our first affirmative action president. A man hired primarily because of the color of his skin instead of the content of his character.
And now instead of the "post racialism" Obama promised, we find ourselves in a period where everything is about race. Every news item has a racial angle, no matter how tortured. And any criticism of the president's policies are met with screams of racism.
Given the liberal's strangle hold on the racial brand, white conservatives have a hard time making their point. It is all too easy to bring any issue back to race and invalidate honest criticism. Under Obama, everything from health care to energy policy becomes about America's racist social structure. It's a black thing, we just don't understand. But black conservatives do. And there's the key to the solution.
Conservatives tend to ignore race: MLK's vision of a color blind society being one of our most important ideals. But ignoring race entirely eliminates an important marketing tool. If you want to sell makeup to teenagers, you hire a teenager to sell your message. If we want to sell conservatism to the black community, we need black conservatives to deliver the pitch. Their very existence exposes the lie of racial politics in America. And every time a black conservative gets called an
Uncle Tom, it's a blow against the liberal "race brand." As the public is exposed to more free-thinking black citizens speaking conservative values, they will begin to question the wisdom of the black community's single party allegiance.
The germ of this idea came while listening to Rush Limbaugh's
Bo Snerdly do his "official Obama criticizer" bit. Snerdly, who is black, will re-read Rush's criticism of Obama in a hip-hop dialect that is hilarious satire, but rings so true it's sobering. Snerdly is holding up a mirror to the liberal orthodoxy that feels it owns the black community.
Black conservatives are true anti-establishement activists. Unlike left-wing activists whose free expression is championed by the mainstream, the free expression of black conservatives costs them dearly. Many are rejected by family and peers for holding opinions that go against the community group-think. They're targets of bullying, verbal abuse, racial epithets, and violence. They deserve our support and a more prominent role in leading the conservative movement.
And before you complain that this is nothing but conservative affirmative action — let me point out that I'm not talking about pandering to black folks — the drippy me-too sentimentality that hoisted Michael Steele to the chairmanship of the RNC. Steele's conservative credentials are weaker than his leadership ability. Placing him at the helm of the Republican Party did nothing to help the conservative brand.
Solid conservatives — who happen to be black, and can speak with authority about their experience — will make a real difference. These excellent people can be catalysts for a radical change in the conservative brand. They can help conservatives reach a new target audience not by pandering, but by really communicating. And as more open-minded black people hear their message, more will question the status quo of politics in their community. And as more question, more will join — imagine what real change conservative values will make in the black community after 10 or 15 years. It's an exciting prospect for America and the conservative movement.
So what can you do? Read the blogs, buy the books, follow the Twitter feeds and watch the Youtube videos of as many black conservatives as you can find. Share it with your friends and family.
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