Hello Republican National Committee:
I’m Chris L. Robinson and this will be the final installment in my tips for how you can win over the black community. If you’ll recall, the first tip was about your running away--away from plantation terminology--and the second involved focusing your criticism on the actions of the President and his administration, instead of the man, himself. This final tip is probably the most important of all, because it will seem very counterintuitive to you.
Don’t ever send black Republicans to recruit black people.
This is easily the number one way for the GOP to repair its relationship with the black community. Look, I know it makes sense to you: you believe that black people only vote for other black people and it doesn’t matter how terrible a candidate that black person is. Therefore it makes sense that you send black Republicans to convince black people to instead vote for your candidate. But since your presumption is wrong, your plan of action is also wrong.
dead wrong while there is a minute fraction of a fraction of Black voters who might be fooled the majority of us look at these republicans of color vehemently defending that position as HOUSE "N's", no matter what they say or do they will all go the way of the rest of us in that party's view with more disdain for those who forget who and what they came from.
as to criticism of Pres. and his family is only enhances the disapproval of these BINO'S, granted if they cooperated the party that is, Pres. would be one of the great ones and more historically so far the best Black one, White history for republicans can't allow that hence 5 years of obstruction and racist rants. he to me is still one of the great ones if not the greatest one no matter how much republicans try to deny it.
First, black people REGULARLY vote for white people--we have little choice. In my almost 45 years on this earth, I have voted for a black person for President exactly twice. Once in 2008 and once in 2012. In prior elections, I didn’t stay home, I voted for the white man. In 2016, I may be voting for a white woman. In local elections, too, I have mostly voted for white people and have often voted for them over black people.
Second, black Republicans--at least the vocal ones, the public ones, the kind that you see on Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly, the ones trying to be spokesmen for the Republican party are, for the most part, terrible people. They have to be, or else, they wouldn’t be black republicans.
They can’t be good people because they’ve made the devil’s bargain with you: that they will badmouth and undermine black people for gain. Now, maybe that gain isn’t always monetary. And I think that several really are true believers--I think Alfonzo Rachel, for example, really believes all of the wrong things he says. But whether it is money or fame or the opportunity to push an agenda, to be a black Republican is to sign on to regularly invoking the “Democrat plantation”, attacking the first black President as being an illegitimate usurper, and defending the classism and racism of the right-wing.
But before we get into that, I have to let you in on a little secret: black people don’t really think the president is the Second Coming of Jesus. You’ve just said it so many times so that you can denigrate the black vote that you’ve convinced yourself that it’s true. That’s why it thrills you so much to hear black people badmouth the president that you will pay them to do it, when in reality, you could hear it for free in thousands of black barbershops every day.
my hope is that they read this and ignore it as usual keeps them in the decline they are in and broadens our prospects in spite of all the skulduggery they have tried to keep us down.
God Bless the America that can be.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/14/1299464/-Dear-GOP-Don-t-Ever-Send-Black-Republicans-to-Recruit-Black-People?detail=email
