As of this moment, there are three candidates for president of United States: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
According to some media reports, there are two major groups that could dramatically influence the upcoming election: the minorities – blacks and Hispanics.
Who will they vote for? The conservative, the liberal or the socialist?
All three candidates are reaching into these minorities in an attempt to influence their leadership and thereby sway the population of these groups.
Any attempt on my part to speak for the Hispanics would be considered racism, so I will confine my comments to the black side of the equation.
The American public must make a decision soon about who is going to occupy the seat of power in Washington. (As a side note: Congress, according to the Constitution, should have equal power with the executive and judicial branches, but the new concept of executive orders too often transcends congressional authority. This is becoming increasingly problematic, and it's time to return to the concept of checks and balances at the top.)
Both Clinton and Sanders are promising increased government assistance to minorities. This places their focus on Hispanics and blacks. I cannot speak for Hispanics, but government assistance is not the answer for blacks. The fact of the matter is, the black family has survived everything except government assistance. There is a biblical (not religious) principle at work here: "The borrower is the servant of the lender." If "the man" controls your money, he controls you.
Liberals and their Democrat allies are aware of this, and they are determined to keep blacks dependent. They know those who rely on any kind of support mechanism will do nothing to jeopardize the relationship. This is simply another form of plantation politics: "Massa's" residence is no longer a big white house in Mississippi, but a big White House in Washington, D.C.
What blacks do not need is precisely what the liberals and Democrats are offering – more government programs.
Entitlement programs have had a severe impact on the stability of the black family. The result has been dramatic increases in illegitimate births, single-mother households and absentee fathers; an increase in numbers at the poverty level, escalating black-on-black crime; increased black incarcerations; and a lack of initiative and self-reliance. Another Democrat administration will only perpetuate these conditions.
So why don't blacks support Republican candidates and programs? The answer is relatively simple: The media relentlessly portray Republicans as racists. Republicans are consistently on the defensive because of the mainstream media portrayal of "insensitivity" on the part of conservatives.
Despite the fact that Republican majorities in Congress (not Democrats) are responsible for all Civil Rights bills from 1875 to 1965, Republicans are portrayed as insensitive to blacks, and, unfortunately, they have inadvertently contributed to this portrayal.
For years, GOP spokesmen were always white, so the Democrats, with token black spokesmen, were always able to stay on the offensive with the ubiquitous cry of "Republican racism," and the character assassins in the leftist media, like good Marxist propagandists, trotted out the racist tag on cue. Remember: When epithets are used, reason is not.
If Republicans want to be seen as progressive in black communities, then they must, as did Democrats after Reconstruction, initiate a definitive change in their strategy. Here are some simple suggestions: They must engage and employ black conservatives (they do exist) and have these spokespersons point out that the legislation supported by the Democrats/liberals is inimical to the best interests of the black family.
The mainstream media have assigned us black spokesmen. Imagine how surprised I was to learn that my official spokesmen were Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and now Black Lives Matter radicals. Are they telling me that these speak for more than 45 million blacks? And are they saying Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders speak for more than 275 million other Americans? (Oh, I almost forgot the few thousands that Trump represents.)
Americans must immediately begin to disregard the conventional wisdom espoused by the liberal press, recognize that the present un-elected black leadership is not representative of grassroots black America, shift their focus to the church-going, hardworking, nuclear African-American families, focus on the enormous progress made in and by the black American community (including a black president) – and stop apologizing for slavery!
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