This debate is no longer about the goodness or badness of white folks. This debate is no longer about the legacy of slavery. This debate is no longer about whether Donald Trump is a racist or not.
The debate is about the failure of liberalism and Black elected officials promoting a radical liberal agenda that continues to destroy the Black community.
The War on Poverty should be renamed The War on Blacks. These policies have totally decimated the Black community and elected Black officials continue to ignore the devastation.
In former President Reagan’s 1988 State of the Union speech he stated, “We waged a war on poverty and poverty won.”
My corollary is, “Radical liberal white Democrats waged a war on poverty and Blacks lost!”
During the last fifty years radical liberals have spent well over $ 15 trillion on the War on Poverty with nothing to show but total devastation in the Black community.
For $ 15 trillion Blacks have high crime rates, low home ownership, out of control fatherless households, and non-performing schools.
According to the Libertarian Institute, “Data provided by every census between 1890 and 1954 shows that black Americans were just as active – and sometimes more – in the labor market than their white counterparts. In 1900, for example, black unemployment was 15 percent lower than white unemployment. In 2017, it was 30 percent higher…If the conventional narrative on black American poverty and general social dysfunction were correct – that this was caused by the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, and private discrimination – wouldn’t we expect to see a decline in black unemployment rather than the opposite?”
Blacks must stop voting with their emotions and get back to voting for their interests like in the days of old.
We had a two-term bi-racial president, Obama, with nothing to show for it. We have sixty-two members of the Congressional Black Caucus, the largest voting block in Congress, with nothing to show for it.
Being a Black in the Democrat Party is like pissing on yourself in a dark blue suit; it gives you a warm feeling but no one ever notices.
Message to the Black community, stop letting radical liberal Democrats piss on you and then tell you it is raining!!!
To continue to vote with emotion and not policy that is based on our interests is like the sounding brass or the tingling cymbal full of sound and fury signifying nothing!
Radical liberalism has been totally discredited by the indices in the Black community and has been totally rejected by the rank and file within the Black community and in the marketplace of ideas.
If Republicans were to get serious about substantively engaging with the Black community, they could move more votes in their direction.
Unfortunately, when all is said and done, there is more said than done!!!
Raynard Jackson is a Pulitzer Award nominated columnist and founder and chairman of Black Americans for a Better Future (BAFBF), a federally registered 527 Super PAC established to get more Blacks involved in the Republican Party. BAFBF focuses on the Black entrepreneur. For more information about BAFBF, visit www.bafbf.org You can follow Raynard on Twitter; RealRaynardJ; on Gettr: RaynardJackson.
Motivational Moment
There isn’t a bank in the world where I can deposit excuses, so I don’t accept them.
