This is actually a good topic and thread. Let's get back to me; I'm not a Democrat, I vote for people from all parties who meet my criteria. I have articulated that fact amongst Black folks, I'm not ostracized and called insulting names. I have had discussions with the aforementioned people (some of them relatives and friends) where I disagreed with some of President Obama's policies and they actually agreed with me. I voted for Gary Johnson and they know that as well. No "uncle tom" shit, no attitude, just normal.
Here's where I see the "problem" with SOME Black republicans/conservatives lie; for starters they are aligning themselves with a party that after the Civil Rights movement enacted the Southern Strategy (see the admissions by Lee Atwater, Mehlman, Steel, and now seemingly Priebus) which alienated the Republicans from Black people.At this time, the Democrats stepped up and gave them more representation (House of Representatives, Mayors, etc.). Secondly, not a few of them pander to their White republican audience by making insulting comments about a MAJORITY of Black people. Here are some examples;
Jessie Lee Peterson , black conservative.
""One of the things that I would do is take all black people back to the South and put them on the plantation so they would understand the ethic of working," Peterson told The Huffington Post's Black Voices on Tuesday afternoon. "I'm going to put them all on the plantation. They need a good hard education on what it is to work."
Alan West, black conservative:
"GOP Rep. Allen West believes that the Democratic Party is akin to a modern-day
plantation. "
"The people on that
plantation are upset because theyve been disregarded, disrespected and their concerns are not cared about
Im here as the modern-day Harriet Tubman to kind of lead people on the underground railroad away from that
plantation into a sense of sensibility."
Herman Cain:
"Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said Monday night on Fox News' "The Sean Hannity Show" that he "left the Democratic
plantation," echoing language used by African-American Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) this summer."
Add the "Blacks are brainwashed" statement to the one above.
Of course many Black people are going to be insulted by those blanket, ignorant, insults and generalizations made by the aforementioned people. Of course some people will respond to the assholes above with insults. Those clowns need to realize (I'm sure that they do.) that being on a "plantation" wasn't voluntary. Many were treated like animals and property, many were abused and treated brutally. Being a Democrat is VOLUNTARY and in the past 50+ years that party HAS encouraged Black people to join their ranks in leadership positions. The republicans in the past 50+ years have pretty much not done that in fact they seemed adversarial. Just look at the insulting things not a few republicans and conservatives say about Blacks on this forum!!!
Some of these "Black conservatives" say those insulting things to act as proxies for their White racist counterparts. In my opinion, they do this to garner approval and material gain from the aforementioned people. It's pretty much in the same vein as people saying; "See! They call themselves *******, so why can't we call them *******?".
In short, I think that there's a more positive and productive way to put their message out there, see Tony Brown. Put out good ideas and NOT blanket inaccurate insults and generalizations. The part of the message coming from the west's, cain, and peterson that sticks out to some if not many Black people the most, is translated as the aforementioned saying to White republican/conservatives: "See those ******* who vote democrat are dumb, lazy, and want handouts.". That couldn't be any further from the truth about the majority of Black people who vote Democrat.
I find it funny when some republicans (Black and White) come out with that bullshit about "Martin Luther King was a republican." crap. Do those people actually think that he would agree with them?
"If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas." King was more than just talk in this regard. Working through his Operation Breadbasket, King threatened boycotts of businesses that did not hire blacks in proportion to their population. "
"King was even an early proponent of reparations. In his 1964 book, Why We Cant Wait, he wrote,
No amount of gold could provide an adequate compensation for the exploitation and humiliation of the Negro in America down through the centuries
Yet a price can be placed on unpaid wages. The ancient common law has always provided a remedy for the appropriation of a the labor of one human being by another. This law should be made to apply for American Negroes. The payment should be in the form of a massive program by the government of special, compensatory measures which could be regarded as a settlement in accordance with the accepted practice of common law."
"King of course was a great opponent of the free economy. In a speech in front of his staff in 1966 he said,
You cant talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You cant talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. Youre really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry
Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong
with capitalism
There must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a Democratic Socialism."
Sound familiar?
but I can jerk chicken as good as anyone. 
