I received the following comment and wanted to respond with
a full fledged post because I think it is worth the time to do so because
frankly while many of you who come here from time to time and hopefully the
people who thought that I disappeared permanently will find me again need to
understand that my lack of hope did not just seep its way into my consciousness
when Obama became president this has been festering for quite some time.
If you been reading my rants before ignore, nothing new here.
If you been reading my rants before ignore, nothing new here.
This is some of the commentary from my anonymous friend:
Anonymous said...Gaius, I read what you posted, thought about it, came back to re-read it, thought some more and came back again and again.ME "No black person in this country benefits by speaking out against Obama, or writing something negative about him."When you are ostracized by your family, friends, coworkers, etc for holding beliefs counter to what they hold and they refuse to listen to you you do have choices.Remain silent around them. Safe but hard to do.Speak out at every chance. Ostracized and cut off from any safety net.Feel out personal opinions to find those willing to at least listen. Time consuming and dangerous. But, also the most rewarding.ME: "This is the one thing many of you white people don’t understand regarding why blacks vote Democrat in such large numbers because it is a social imperative to do so."Who sets the rules for the black social imperative? Find out who they are and what motivates them to insist on blacks voting democrat.
First of all I don’t know how many of you who read me also read
other black conservative columnists, bloggers, and journalists or listen to
black conservatives on talk radio.
Not that any of us are special by any stretch of the imagination
and not to questions anyone personal political motives and what I mean by that
is there are some black folks that play the “I’m a black conservative” card
because it is a novelty to them or it is either profitable or it gets them some
attention.
My friend Kevin Jackson I remember the first time I had a
conversation with him it was as if we were separated at birth in how our
minds processed today’s political climate. Now I am not saying that we agree on
everything he is not as hopeless as I am but we are on the same boat philosophically in many respects.
I have also had the opportunity to meet and chat with JosephPhillips and Mychal Massie and I know they have strong conservative political
convictions although Joseph is a little more low key and measured than myself,
Kevin or Mychal his convictions are strong.
As for who “Who sets the rules for the black social
imperative” all black people are responsible. Going back to the days of the
civil rights movement when Martin Luther King became the leader of the movement
and other emerged as leaders in their own right people like Malcolm X for
example.
Black people always had this obsessive need to anoint someone
as the “leader” as if they needed one. This is why people like Jessie Jackson
and Al Sharpton were able to get rich by simply having a big mouth. In the
black community unfortunately the one who has the biggest mouth gets the most
attention.
Not speaking for any other black person and certainly not
speaking for any other self-proclaimed conservative I have always believed that
black folks "need" to have a “leader” was their biggest downfall.
White people don't have a self-proclaimed leader. White people who tend to be followers end up in cults or religions like Scientology. Hispanics don't all follow this "return the Southwest US back to Mexico" bullshit.
Not even the majority of Muslims are American hating, World Trade Center smashing zealots. The
reason these groups don't have this collective thought process is because they tend to at least entertain
the thought that other ideas are feasible that maybe everything they may have been taught is not quite what it seems. They will read alternate sources of information, view and process alternate political views and thinking. Black people won't do this for the most part. In private they may question some of the rhetoric but show a collective mindset to whitey.
During the civil rights era speaking with a collective and
coordinated voice was important because that was important in not only getting
out the word but to show a measure of force behind the words and rhetoric necessary
to change the hearts and minds of white America. Also behind that collective
voice meant a show of financial strength as well. This is why you still have
today the “buy black” argument.
Black people in general and so called black leaders have
co-opted the good intentions of promoting civil rights into this one mind, one
thought for the Democrat Party and the liberalism you have today.
Keep in mind although I am conservative I would never advocate
that folks buy hook line and sinker what I said or what any other conservative was selling. Being Republican or Conservative does not mean I am right or have all the answers but I am informed enough, educated enough and enlightened enough that the alternate that is Democratic induced liberalism is complete and utter poison to America and society in general at least as it is being promoted by this current administration.
I don't want nor would I ever advocate that everyone be conservative. Our life experiences plays a role in dictating where we get our political ideology. We all don't walk in the same shoes in other words so there is no logical explanation or rationale that all black people would think, process and vote alike.
I’ve never given a damn who someone votes for or even why as
long as you clearly know why? I’ve said often that I have spoken to far too
many black folks including friends and family and will ask why do you support a
given candidate and I always get the obligatory “Republicans are evil” or some
DNC talking point.
I read so many black websites and listen to black
celebrities or pundits and the arguments are never cohesive or intellectually
sound it’s all rhetoric how some say it, “fire and brimstone.”
For me ever since I was old enough to understand the society
in which I lived and understood how our government worked and politics in general
I would hear black people say this whitey was evil bullshit and it never made
sense to me. While I did encounter the stupid racist white person from time to time, far more were good decent people then they were evil and I never asked for their political credentials.
Fast forward to today’s conversations when it comes to
politics and it is not only whitey is evil, Republicans are evil nonsense. No
reasonable person would or could even believe this crap. If that were the case
Obama would have lost by a landslide because if race trumps politics as black
people say then whitey would have played the race card but they didn’t they
voted for Obama hoping that somehow this would heal the racial wounds we suffer
today. Who care what he stood for or who he was or where he came from.
White people basically put our country and its future and its money at
risk all to make some racial statement. I’ve said before I expect black people
to vote on feelings or something as ridiculous as skin color but not white
people.
Again to your question on who sets the social imperative well
black people have been trained to think on a collective basis otherwise you
would not get the same rhetoric from every black person who supports Obama or
who automatically votes Democrat.
In is not in our nature for all of us to think the same to
have the same thoughts and values and mindset. Not when it comes to deciding on
what car to buy, or what eat, or what to wear or with whom to vote for, that
never made sense to me and as I have said before one of the best gifts my late
father gave me is telling me that just because someone shares my skin
pigmentation does not make them my brother or sister or that they will always
have my best interests at heart.
The thing about who sets the social imperative depends on
who you talk to. Every black preacher, radio DJ, journalists again anyone with
a big enough mouth and enough of a personality will gladly take the lead on
that social imperative not in the best interest of black folks in general but
for their own benefit.
ME: "...Blacks are already fearful of the government and if
they think that saying the wrong thing could get them kicked out of government
housing or that they may lose that EBT card you think a black person is going
to say that they are going to vote for Romney?"
Why are blacks
fearful of their government? Rumors and propaganda? If so who puts those rumors
into place?
Again anyone with a big enough mouth or microphone not to
mention just about every black celebrity, professional athlete. Being an
uninformed mouthpiece unfortunately is the standard in the black community. It
is not the goal to educate and inform.
I mentioned in another post that I had a dear friend basically
say that although they may not like what is going on with Obama that they had
to vote for him because they heard that if Romney got elected that he and the
Republicans were going to eliminate student loans for poor people. This is not
only unbelievably erroneous but so ridiculous on its face that I would never think
anyone reasonably intelligent person could believe that.
This person is not dumb or stupid in fact much smarter and hard working than I could ever hope to be, but that is what they believe.
I understand that when we have busy lives and other fish to fry as we go
about our busy day we get bits and pieces of information from our friends and
family and if we tend to communicate with uninformed people that is what we
ourselves become... uninformed.
I hear and read all kinds of ridiculous stuff on black radio
stations and black blogs but the thing is only back people listen to those
stations and read those blogs.
Black people will only pay attention to what another black
person says or does and most black people get their 411 from whatever church
they go to. So unless they are willing to explore other informational resources or open themselves to the possibility that what they hear from these sources are crap they will never change their thinking.
ME: "Black
people and in particular black children are murdered all over this country,
black unemployment is at a record high for black people, the black family is
all but disintegrated, 70 percent of black children are born to single mothers,
almost 70 percent are dropping out of high school none of these fact will ever
get a headline but the fact that these same black folks won’t support a GOP
candidate is news worthy?"
Very easy to ask
pointed questions that mean little. Very hard to ask questions whose very
answers require a close look at yourself. Bill Cosby spoke about some of these
issues and I commend him for his strength in speaking out. Black families are
disintegrating. Why? I can remember when black families stood together. Now?
Not so much. I remember when blacks valued an education so much that they
risked their life to go to a good school. Today? Not so much.
This situation has
to be driven from somewhere. Why is it being driven in the suicidal direction
it find itself in today and who is driving it?
I’m not sure if I have the answer, I honestly have little
hope take me for example. I’ve been blogging since 2005 and with a few
exceptions any black person who has ever come to any of my previous blogs or
this one see me as some evil scientist Uncle Tom sellout.
After all these years and with all the evidence at their
disposal Democrats have completely failed blacks at every turn, yet as you say
blacks still philosophically head towards the mental cliff or suicidal direction
as you say.
I’m here to say that will never change and I say that
because the days you spoke of when the black family was whole and supportive of
one another, where freedom of thought and expression was celebrated, when black
businesses thrived, when education was encouraged, when freedom and righteousness
was championed that no longer exists.
The black family has eroded, education is non-existent and
Obama has driven a stake in the American mindset and promoted division and I
dare say anarchy.
You can’t change the mindset of folks if they are uneducated
and unwilling to look beyond their own narrow world view.
Again I don’t care who you vote for, or where your political
affiliations lie, the only thing I care about is that you are informed and open
to the possibility that you don’t have all the answers and are willing to explore
thinking that just might be outside of your current realm of thinking.
Black people think the way they do not out of logic but
simply because they are black. There is no hope of that changing in my
lifetime. It is a bleak outlook I know and exactly why I don’t blog because I’m
trying to change anyone mind or outlook. I honestly blog because all of this
crap on the internet both the good and the bad is forever.
I want some smart dude in the future and hopefully that is
some black individual who helped prove me wrong and helped changed the mindset
that black people had to think with one mindset to read my diatribes to
understand that not all of us were part of that 95 percent that voted Democrat
on cue, who blindly followed the silly rhetoric spewed by so-called black elite, sycophant journalists, bloggers,
rappers and preachers.
These blog posts to me these days are my electronic versions
of a message in a bottle.
I don’t know what else to do these days but vent on occasion
and hopefully some young inquiring blogger will read this and inquire and question
maybe disagree but that would be OK. You can’t change anyone’s mind unless you
change their heart.
I don’t agree with most black people on the surface but I’m
not here to label those with whom I disagree with as evil or stupid. No other
racial or ethnic group thinks with one mind and one voice unless you are a communist.
If we are to take “free at last” seriously does that also
include freedom of thought?
Sorry this may be slightly disjointed, I have been writing
throughout this busy day at work.
I wish more people would be willing to share their thoughts
on this. All I can do is put it out there.
Peace, Gaius













