Black Republicans

I've never quite been able to figure out why most Blacks vote for political candidates who are Democrats. Even a review of just a little political history would seem to, logically, point to Blacks overwhelmingly supporting Republicans.

1. Slavery
It was the Democratic party of the 1840s and 1850s that wanted to allow the spread of slavery into the new territories of the western United States. It wasn't until the Republican party, specifically formed to abolish slavery, became a national party in the 1860s that slavery was eliminated.

2. Jim Crow South
After the Civil War and Reconstruction were ended in the 1880s, Democrats came back to power in the South. And with them came the concept of "separate but equal" and all those wonderful Jim Crow laws that, essentially, removed millions of Blacks from the voting rolls and placed them into, again, a virtual state of slavery.

3. Civil Rights
What party was it that filibustered Civil Rights legislation in the 1960s? Why it was former Ku Klux Klan member Robert Byrd and his Democratic colleagues in the Senate. If it weren't for Republican support, this legislation never would have become law.

4. Martin Luther King, Jr. & Affirmative Action
Wasn't it Martin Luther King Jr. who said "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."? I think so, yet the Democrats are the strongest purveyors of Affirmative Action which says that we should essentially judge people, not by their ability or character, but by their ethnic heritage.

Right after the Civil War, most Blacks did vote Republican. Many of the southern States, Georgia and Louisiana among them, had Black Republican Governors. What has happened in the last 150 years to cause Blacks to migrate to the "gimme" party? My personal opinion is that it's the next generation of "Civil Rights Leaders," such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, who have made the Blacks out to be victims. Victims who can't be raised out of the current situation except with the assistance of government tax dollars and the "dummying down" of everyone else. Rather than raise up everyone, these clowns would rather have everyone pulled down ... sound like a typical Democratic campaign slogan? You know, punish the rich rather then raise the poor. And when Black leaders like Bill Cosby or Lt. Gov. Michael Steele (MD) speak out about the need for personal responsibility in the Black community, they get ridiculed, heckled, and pelted with oreos. Even on an issue such as helping the homeless, Democrats are willing to impede assistance because the one bringing the assistance happens to be a Black Republican.

For those Blacks who think that I, as a White Male, am completely full of it, I would point you to a number of Black columnists, such as Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder, and Walter Williams. Read what they have to say on these issues and, if nothing else, make the Democrats earn your votes because of their policies, not because they'll give you the most sympathy by making you feel like a vicitim or the most money by stealing it from others. As a for instance, ask the Democratic leadership what they're going to do about social security. Because the average Black Male life expectancy is lower than the age at which you can receive full benefits, the majority of contributions made by them ends up going to those with the longest life expectancy: White Females.