Prometheus 6

I found the Independant Business News Network when The Field Negro sneered at their complaint that no Black Republicans are scheduled to speak at the Republican National Convention. Under normal circumstances I would just chuckle and move on.

On Friday, August 15, 2008 I was approached by a gentleman who told me to “cool down”, don’t go after Ron Carey’s office or the RNC and we will get together later and work things out after the RNC.  He went on to threaten Barb’s campaign by saying, “If you don’t, Barb is finished!”  The RNC has given money to some local “point people” in the Twin Cities to have party events neglecting the most valued and important thing to attract voter’s of color to the Republican Party…”community engagement and outreach”.  No one from Minnesota’s non-profit agencies have been contacted by the GOP/RNC to teach the community about the Constitution of the United States or even to register voters. Remember…Liberty does not have a color, it has soul!

This “slave mentality thinking” i.e.; “Be good you Black Republican’s while our White friends are in town” does not fly with me or the tools I have in place to distribute this message “top-of-mind” to the general public and national news affiliates.

But I decided anyone that could post this picture

...can't be all bad, even when it's at the head of an article that says this.

So, I’ve provided some information about the who’s, what’s why’s and where’s about the Republican Party that for the most part, no one talks about.  It true that somewhere in history the party changed and we all know that “absolute power corrupts absolutely”, but in an attempt to “mend” the damage already done, I think you’ll enjoy the following information....

One of the strangest developments of the last 100 years has been the shift of the Black community to the party that fought hardest to keep slaves and segregation.

If I could sit down with the brother (gender assumption) I'd point to that "somewhere in history the party changed," and ask if and when it changed back.

More, we know when it changed. Nixon, Southern Strategy. It's not like this isn't still in living memory.

This is at the heart of all Republican recruiting problems among Black folk. To discuss the benefits the Republican Party brought to Black people, you have to go back to a situation which is very obviously not the case at the moment. "Vote Republican, because we used to be way different than we are now."

But let's get ahistorical for a moment. Just ask yourself, "What do Black people want?" I don't care whether you approved of it our not...besides, you can't ignore history without ignoring morality. Just list what you honestly believe Black people want. Now ask yourself, "What does the Republican Party offer Black people?" Black people, like everyone else, are going to support you to the degree those lists overlap.

This is, like, physics. Like dominoes. And you're not going to talk people into reinterpreting their entire history.