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RNC Race Relations: How the South was won, yet a race lost for generations to come?
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Can a renewed Party with a New face, attract inclusion after decades of exclusionary methods and techniques?
On March 7, 1965, as a nation watched in horror, an ABC interrupted broadcast of Judgment of Nuremberg, to ironically reveal America’s own Judgment day, showing police and a “deputized” lynch mob, brutally beating peaceful protestors led by none other than the late, great Martin Luther King, Jr.
Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson, addressed this and other struggles during the time of a Civil Rights era, even after publicly stating to confidants that after the passage of such landmark legislation, that “we [Democrats] would lose the South for a generation”. Upon such measures, Democrats secured the patronage and support of a race of African-Americans, for decades, after they had once remained loyal to the Republican Party.
Knowing the consequences of doing what was right, opposed to what was “politically correct”, even from an openly racist President, helped secure a voting bloc for generations to come.
However, after the election of America’s first African American President, another milestone in electorate history, what has the RNC done to win over blacks and other minorities to make them feel included in a past Party of exclusion? Though the actual idea of a civil rights was indoctrinated and proposed by republicans, even brought forth by a commission to study the issue in the 1950’s, under then Vice President Richard Nixon, what has the Party of Lincoln done to deserve the vote of black people?
Well they have just recently elected their first black National Chairman, some say to level the playing field against the top Democrat, Barack Obama, as it relates to race. However if that were the case, another individual was vying for that top spot, by the name of Kenneth Blackwell, who last time I checked was also an African American, from a battleground state of Ohio, which shall certainly prove more worthy a pick if your looking at electoral math and strategy. Therefore if race is not the argument, then what was special about Mr. Steele and should we expect more from a Good Ole group of a seemingly isolated and member-only bunch of conservatives?
Should America depict the entire Party to be that of certain media personalities, who proclaim their undying loyalty to the conservative wing of the GOP? I mean really do Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh speak for the republican brand, or do the majority of conservatives believe in a more moderate philosophy of conservatism, smaller government and lower taxes? Should anyone other than the RNC chair, minority leadership in the House and Senate and actual elected republicans speak on behalf of a party who seems to have lost their way, at least since the days of Gingrich and the Contract with America?
Is there actually still a contract in place with the People, or do we no longer count in the representation of this arrogant bunch? Many answers could be asked, while experts and Party loyalists point to the days of Watergate and the Carter administration and how conservatism won out with Reagan as the Party found their way, yet I want to know do they, the RNC, actually think they can put a black face on the box and expect all blacks to actually buy the cereal? I hope not, yet here is what I believe needs to happen for true inclusion in the GOP:
- The “Party”, needs to distant themselves from personalities that get paid to rant and rave about politics and point out the clear differences they have with say that of a Hannity, who now no longer even calls Barack Obama “his” President. Yet let liberals do that when President Bush was in office and they were not patriotic. Isn’t that a two-way street?
- As the Party tries to relate to and include those of color or minorities, they must begin on the ground, caring about and being a part of the solution, to social economic programs aimed at assisting blacks to be more self-dependent and enable the entrepreneurship mentality of most, by providing creative ways to allow for growth, perseverance and success. Not just saying we care!
- In an economic time of peril, introduce locally, through states controlled by republicans, innovative ways to present tax breaks for lower to middle class citizens that will allow for them to reap the benefits afforded to the upper-class under such administrations like George W. Bush. While Democrats urge for higher taxes, show the contrast of the RIGHT party portraying the differences by solidly showing why tax cuts and breaks are better for an economy.
- While most African-Americans are more conservative by nature, due to the fact we live a life, normally and regularly providing a lot for our families with little means to do such with. Economically, socially and more we tend to agree with those who’d rather identify with self-reliance, limited government with less intrusiveness by “Big Brother” and those lines stated in that contract known as the United States Constitution.
- Start placing blacks in real leadership positions, not just that of when they need to talk to other minorities, but what they are quiet qualified to do, as much as anyone else, and let them excel at it, while they promote and market the Party and people who gave them the opportunity to do such.
Much more is needed and should and could be done, in order to brand the Party in such a way that it allows for those of us “black conservatives” to feel proud of those who represent us and the principles they represent. I may not, in fact certainly do not, know it all, however I see a lot as an activist, media personality and political pundit, that takes in what people actually say and feel, and can relate to such, as someone who came not from a privileged or nurtured background, in fact totally opposite, yet believes in the morals and principles of those who came before me, including those amongst me…
That party of principled People, who believe in the idea of a better America, by in which this land was founded, given everyone the opportunity for prosperity! NOW is the time to show such, before you look around and there no longer a Party to go to!
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