Showing posts with label GOP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GOP. Show all posts
Friday, June 4, 2021
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Darren Sands — Are Republicans Failing Their Black College Faithful?
Republicans who went to black colleges are an invaluable resource to the party. But College Republican National Committee rules make it extremely difficult for students at HBCUs to maintain official membership just when the GOP needs them most.
via Buzzfeed:
To be a black Republican is to be an iconoclast — challenging closely held beliefs about the black American identity and its long history in American politics. And to be one at an HBCU only puts that into greater relief. The measure of a Republican club’s success at such a school is often defined by interest — or lack thereof — of capable willing, leadership, says Harold Booker Jr., a recent Morehouse graduate.
Read the full article HERE.
via Buzzfeed:
To be a black Republican is to be an iconoclast — challenging closely held beliefs about the black American identity and its long history in American politics. And to be one at an HBCU only puts that into greater relief. The measure of a Republican club’s success at such a school is often defined by interest — or lack thereof — of capable willing, leadership, says Harold Booker Jr., a recent Morehouse graduate.
Read the full article HERE.
Saturday, October 31, 2015
Black Republican Ryan Frazier considering a Colorado U.S. Senate run!
Former Aurora city council member Ryan Frazier may be the next to enter the Republican primary race for US Senate.
KUSA- Former Aurora city council member Ryan Frazier may be the next to enter the Republican primary race for US Senate.
Frazier appeared as a paid political expert on 9NEWS since the 2012 campaign cycle. Frazier and 9NEWS ended that arrangement on Friday as he considers a run.
"I'm motivated to serve," said Frazier. "I have a passion for this."
Read the full article HERE.
Monday, October 5, 2015
Crystal Wright — The White Supremacists flocking to Donald Trump
Crystal Wright, the conservative columnist and TV commentator, delves into some of the less flattering aspects of the Trump campaign for president.
via ConservativeBlackChick.com:
Read the full article HERE.
via ConservativeBlackChick.com:
"Could Donald Trump be reigniting racism in this country like we haven’t seen since the Civil Rights movement? One life-long Republican friend of mine urged me recently to check out the term “cuckservative”being bandied about on Twitter. He explained the term was loaded with racism and the people using it happen to be white, fervent Trump supporters.
“It’s a rallying cry for white supremacists and ‘neoreactionaries’ who, for whatever reason, seem to back Trump,” wrote Daily Beast reporter Matt Lewis, who’s done some excellent writing on the topic. And Lewis is right.
I did a cursory search on Twitter and very unsavory things surfaced. A cuckservative refers to a white man who betrays the Republican party and his race by supporting policies like amnesty for illegals, gay marriage, criminal justice reform, and black voter outreach that threaten white dominance in America. For the record, I don’t support gay marriage or illegal immigration, but there’s a way to talk about these issues without being a bigot.
Trump may not be behind the term, but Trump’s frontrunner status and rise in the polls has coincided with the rise in the cuckservative movement and his support from white nationalist groups. Tweets like these are indefensible."
Read the full article HERE.
Saturday, June 27, 2015
Matt Lewis — What the GOP Lost When It Won the South
Why this week’s fight over the Confederate flag is a direct result of the “Southern Strategy” that turned Dixie red—and injected a lot of cultural baggage into the GOP.
(The Daily Beast)
As the Republican field and corporations like Wal-Mart slowly but surely distance themselves from the Confederate flag, a subplot involves a trend I’ve been documenting for a while now: How the GOP is being forced to engage in some major soul searching.
The coalition the GOP assembled to win national elections in the latter part of the 20th century has delivered the popular vote in just one of the last six presidential elections, and it’s not realistic to expect they can win many more by relying solely on old, rural, non-college-educated white men.
Not only have the demographics changed—but so have a lot of attitudes.
Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/23/what-the-gop-lost-when-it-won-the-south.html?
(The Daily Beast)
As the Republican field and corporations like Wal-Mart slowly but surely distance themselves from the Confederate flag, a subplot involves a trend I’ve been documenting for a while now: How the GOP is being forced to engage in some major soul searching.
The coalition the GOP assembled to win national elections in the latter part of the 20th century has delivered the popular vote in just one of the last six presidential elections, and it’s not realistic to expect they can win many more by relying solely on old, rural, non-college-educated white men.
Not only have the demographics changed—but so have a lot of attitudes.
Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/23/what-the-gop-lost-when-it-won-the-south.html?
Sunday, June 7, 2015
North Carolina GOP elects 1st black chairman
(The Associated Press)
RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Republican Party elected its first black chairman Saturday in an upset victory over the candidate backed by Gov. Pat McCrory and other top leaders in the GOP establishment.
Hasan Harnett of Harrisburg won the vote of Republican activists at the state GOP convention over Craig Collins of Gastonia. No vote was announced, although the roll call from North Carolina's 100 counties showed Harnett receiving 700 votes to 562 for Collins before Collins asked delegates from the convention floor to elect Harnett to a two-year term.
Hasan Harnett of Harrisburg won the vote of Republican activists at the state GOP convention over Craig Collins of Gastonia. No vote was announced, although the roll call from North Carolina's 100 counties showed Harnett receiving 700 votes to 562 for Collins before Collins asked delegates from the convention floor to elect Harnett to a two-year term.
Read more at http://www.wral.com/north-carolina-gop-elects-1st-black-chairman/14694827/#1WUzMVbfFMjKA2E5.99
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Deroy Murdock — Kerry Hypocritically Slams Cotton’s Letter to Tehran
(The National Review)
Kerry’s complaints about alleged GOP meddling in Obama’s atomic-bomb talks with Iran would ring less hollow absent Kerry’s own interference with sensitive negotiations over war and peace. As I reminded voters on NRO during his 2004 presidential campaign, Kerry parachuted into America’s discussions with North Vietnam as that conflict wound down.
“I have been to Paris,” Kerry told — of all bodies — the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in April 1971. “I have talked with both delegations at the peace talks, that is to say the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government and of all eight of Madame Binh’s points.” These were, respectively, North Vietnam, the Viet Cong’s political wing, and its delegate, Madame Nguyen Thi Binh.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415307/kerry-hypocritically-slams-cottons-letter-tehran-deroy-murdock?target=author&tid=63283
Friday, January 9, 2015
Crystal Wright ― GOP failing to learn race lessons
The CNN opinion columnist writes:
"If our party is not welcoming and inclusive, young people and increasingly other voters will continue to tune us out." That was the Republican Party's own take on the 2012 election as it acknowledged in an autopsy report (otherwise known as the Growth & Opportunity Project) that it was failing to appeal to minority voters.
Unfortunately, too many Republicans have already forgotten this lesson, a reality made all the clearer by the response to recent revelations that House Majority Whip Steve Scalise spoke to a white supremacist group 12 years ago.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was just one of those who seemed more interested in making excuses than holding Republicans to the standard they had supposedly set for themselves."
Read complete article here
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Raynard Jackson - The Republican Party of Virginia and the Black Community
Raynard Jackson, a Republican political consultant, blast the Virginia Republican party, and other Republican state committees for failing to take the lead in engaging the African-American community.
via the New Pittsburgh Courier
"Unlike the Republican National Committee (RNC), our national party apparatus, most of the 50 state party committees are stuck in the 1960s when it comes to the Black community. Exhibit A for this was the annual weekend gathering for the Republican Party of Virginia (RPV) that took place two weeks ago in Dulles, Va., about 25 miles outside of Washington, D.C. This is a gathering where all the powers that be from across the state gather to plot future strategies that will move the state party forward.
I used to be intimately involved in these annual gatherings, but over the years found them to be increasingly a waste of time. The state party would always invite me to participate or moderate a panel on “minority outreach.” The panels always turned out to be more talk than action. In the 90s, I was elected statewide to be national committeeman of the Young Republicans Federation of Virginia, the first and only Black to ever win this office. In that position, I traveled the state talking to anyone who would listen about the imperative of getting more Blacks involved in our state party. Suffice it to say that Virginia’s moniker of being the “cradle of the confederacy” is well deserved.
Despite the lack of interest by the Republic Party of Virginia in the Black community, Virginia has a long history of statewide elected officials who talked, lived, and breathed real diversity. We had governors such as Jim Gilmore, George Allen, Lt. Gov. John Hager, and Attorney General Mark Earley. They not only earned north of 25 percen7 the Black vote, they had paid Black campaign staffers; and had prominent Blacks throughout their administrations. These Blacks were placed in decision-making positions and were not just window dressing."
Read complete article here
My view: The [State] Republican committees are likely the [number one] reason why GOP outreach goes no-where, year after year, despite the RNC's efforts. After one Chairman leaves, another comes in leaving GOP State committees unaccountable for their gross performances. There are a few exceptions, like in California, but for the most part most local State power-brokers in both the GOP and conservative base have no interest in reaching beyond their White base. They will only engage Blacks when they are up against a wall, like in Mississippi, in the case of Sen. Thad Cochran.
Truth be told, if GOP State committees were a company responsible for growing their brand, they'd all be fired by now.
via the New Pittsburgh Courier
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| Raynard Jackson is a Republican political consultant based in Washington, DC. |
"Unlike the Republican National Committee (RNC), our national party apparatus, most of the 50 state party committees are stuck in the 1960s when it comes to the Black community. Exhibit A for this was the annual weekend gathering for the Republican Party of Virginia (RPV) that took place two weeks ago in Dulles, Va., about 25 miles outside of Washington, D.C. This is a gathering where all the powers that be from across the state gather to plot future strategies that will move the state party forward.
I used to be intimately involved in these annual gatherings, but over the years found them to be increasingly a waste of time. The state party would always invite me to participate or moderate a panel on “minority outreach.” The panels always turned out to be more talk than action. In the 90s, I was elected statewide to be national committeeman of the Young Republicans Federation of Virginia, the first and only Black to ever win this office. In that position, I traveled the state talking to anyone who would listen about the imperative of getting more Blacks involved in our state party. Suffice it to say that Virginia’s moniker of being the “cradle of the confederacy” is well deserved.
Despite the lack of interest by the Republic Party of Virginia in the Black community, Virginia has a long history of statewide elected officials who talked, lived, and breathed real diversity. We had governors such as Jim Gilmore, George Allen, Lt. Gov. John Hager, and Attorney General Mark Earley. They not only earned north of 25 percen7 the Black vote, they had paid Black campaign staffers; and had prominent Blacks throughout their administrations. These Blacks were placed in decision-making positions and were not just window dressing."
Read complete article here
My view: The [State] Republican committees are likely the [number one] reason why GOP outreach goes no-where, year after year, despite the RNC's efforts. After one Chairman leaves, another comes in leaving GOP State committees unaccountable for their gross performances. There are a few exceptions, like in California, but for the most part most local State power-brokers in both the GOP and conservative base have no interest in reaching beyond their White base. They will only engage Blacks when they are up against a wall, like in Mississippi, in the case of Sen. Thad Cochran.
Truth be told, if GOP State committees were a company responsible for growing their brand, they'd all be fired by now.
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