Ray From Cleveland
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My interest here is in helping patriots reach the one-in-three Black people who consider themselves conservatives in their personal beliefs about things like religion, the family, patriotism. 10% of Black people vote Republican, but three times this number identify as 'conservative'. Why aren't we reaching them?
One factor may be that we come across as indifferent to the reality of Black life in America, and appear to believe
that Blacks are in the same situation as, say, Jews are. "Yes, there was some discrimination at one time, but that's all
in the past."
Sorry, when a policeman stops a car driven by a young Black male at night, he has -- absolutely understandably! -- a different reaction to the driver than he does if he stops a car driven by a young white male. It's a viscious circle.
And, yes, the Left exploits this to the full. They want all Blacks to think of themselves as helpless victims, dependent on kindly white liberals to pull them up via government handouts. There are plenty of Blacks who realize this, and do what we can't, which is to attack the Blacks-as-eternal-victims narrative and be listened to..
First off you have no proof that police treat blacks any differently than whites. Yes, they may use more caution, but that's because of statistics of blacks getting violent with police. But if you show them respect, they will usually return respect. All these guys want to do is their job with the least possible problem. They want to go home at the end of the night and I don't mean in an ambulance.
You have to understand that politics is not a wide interest in black people. Very few here identify themselves as fully black, yet they make up 13% of the population. Some blacks identify as conservatives, but many more don't. I mean.......look at how the left are constantly calling Trump a racist, yet when you ask them what racist things Trump ever said, they can't come up with a cognitive answer. On the other hand Biden has said the most racist things about blacks than any other presidential candidate in our lifetime, and he got 90 plus percent of the black vote. If blacks were paying attention to politics, that could never happen unless you can come up with a better explanation.
You can lead a horse to water....... Until blacks start getting interested in politics, there is really no sense trying to get their vote. All they know about politics is the Republicans are for the rich white people and Democrats are for the poor working man as untruthful as it is.