This may be an old, tired issue but it keeps coming up.
Why is it that if a black person decides to be a Republican, they have
somehow sold out their race or some other ignorant phrase the Civil Rights Industry decides to use to depict any conservative of color.
Recently my cousin and brother have been debating issues and it came up that
Condoleezza Rice had advocated racial preferences for college admission but had
not done enough for civil rights. I ask what do prosperous and successful people
of color *need to do* for black people? What obligates anyone to do anything?
People need their souls saved. I am not a preacher nor do I want to be. Its
not a gift I have, so, I will not be saving any souls today.
Conversely, Condoleezza is doing what she is destined to do, be the most
powerful woman in America and an example that while it is harder for people of
color to achieve than it is for white people, success is possible. For me
anyway, all I need to know is that its possible. I can handle the rest.
Why should Condoleezza Rice, or any other successful black who is not a
Democrat activist for that matter, try to go and talk to people who don't want
to hear anything she has to say? She has been lambasted and insulted by the very
people she is supposed to be helping. What cracks me up is that this is
happening for no other reason than the fact that she is not a Democrat nor an
activist.
Why should George Bush come and speak to the NAACP after Julian Bond made
that ignorant move (yes I said he was ignorant and I stand by that
assessment) and allowed the airing of that commercial saying that George W. Bush
wanted to block the hate crimes legislation in Texas and getting the functionally illiterate daughter of James Byrd Junior to do it? Damn that was ignorant.
All it did was scare people even more ignorant who will believe anything that
comes out of his mouth. Ten minutes on Google would reveal why that legislation
didn't pass. Personally I think its unnecessary. Murder is already illegal in
this country and, two death sentences and life in prison without parole is what
I would call justice.
I digress.
Sarcastically, I thought that Democrats were the most accepting of differing
views of any people who have ever lived at any time on any planet in any solar
system in any galaxy in any universe on any plane of reality. I suppose this is
true if you are Mapplethorpe but not if you are a black conservative right?
When I hear things about Condoleezza Rice from the Civil Rights Industry, its
almost always around ideology. Even though there are plenty of policy questions
and blunders she can be criticized for, for them, it always gets back to the
fact that she has conservative views. Ditto for Colon Powell. I have heard that
to say that the Civil Rights Industry, which includes the NAACP, is another wing
of the Democratic Party is wrong and what people are told to say by Rush
Limbaugh and other conservative talk-show hosts.
Ok. I agree with the talk-show hosts. It is.
I would challenge the NAACP to support a single Republican candidate for any
office or, any idea put forth by a Republican. If they really wanted to advance
the cause of black people, they would take a little more balanced view don't you
think? There are ideas, like school vouchers, that are Republican ideas that
really could benefit black people.
Another thing I hear is that the Bush Administration has done nothing for
black people. This is not true. Sarcastically Puff Daddy (P. Diddy) had his
taxes lowered so he can buy more cars and jewelry and bling like never before.
Let me ask this: Why does someone have to *give* you something in order to
considered good for a people or race? Now, let me figure this out, lowering
taxes does not benefit people of color, only white people had their taxes
lowered right? Ignorant.
Condoleezza is neither stupid or ignorant. Did anyone every think that
perhaps she has good reason to believe what she does?