"Blacks hate the results of both Clinton and Obama policies as well as the Dem governance of their own cities, Philadelphia in this case. Yet these people including Hillary win because of black votes."
For the life of me I just cannot comprehend why Republicans cannot make any in roads with Blacks.
I wish our candidates would speak to them much more. It was like some big event when Rand Paul made one speech to a group of skeptical Blacks.
We aren't going to change minds with one lousy speech.
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Yes and it goes both ways. Blacks should be trying to make inroads into the Republican party, as should other groups that the Democrats are leaving behind. Rand Paul did that. Paul Ryan has reached out. Jack Kemp always did. We haven't found a way to reach the black community with black conservatives. The latest was Ben Carson. I think his support came from the usual Republican demographics. Probably the same for the readership of people like Thomas Sowell. Maybe if Carson ends up on the ticket he can be in a position to reach people where that message is otherwise not heard.
Our candidates talk to them by including them, not by singling them out. The Reagan economic expansion was for everyone and benefited everyone. But we don't get credit for that because we don't have a separate but unequal program for groups.
Law enforcement in your neighborhood is a good thing. If your race is under-represented, get more people, your sons and daughters, into those professions - law enforement. Democratic opposition to school choice is keeping your kids in bad schools and it is a case of Dems, they are putting their special interest, teachers' unions, ahead of your kids' best interests. It's crazy that inner city blacks support the anti-school choice party. Republicans aren't going to put an end to the safety net, so quit saying things that sound like we will. We don't want you to starve, but we need you to recognize that the over-dependence on these programs, on balance, is holding you back. If and when a dynamic, entrepreneurial economy returns to this country, you will want to be a part of it.
At the end of slavery, the feeling was that we are black, set us free, we can compete, make a living, and own and run businesses etc. Blacks were Republicans then. 150 years later, the winning (Democrat) message is that you are black, you are a victim, and you have no chance in this rigged world without a constant leg up from us and from a big government. It isn't true. It isn't working, and no one effectively points that out.
We need to be resolute in distancing ourselves from any support of a rigged, crony world. That is the turf of the left; let them own it. We need to repeal the unfair over-regulations that are designed to keep entrenched interests in and new entrants out. We need economic growth for all. A stagnant economy favors those who already have money and power. Witness the Obama years.
