Black Voices: Paul Shepard: More Than 30 Blacks Running for Congress (As Republicans)
The (Offending) Article:
Maybe, just maybe, Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele isn't quite the complete political buffoon he has appeared to be during his years running the national GOP strategy.
Maybe in between making embarrassing statements, feuding publicly with Rush Limbaugh, clumsily trying to use hip-hop language in his speeches and earning thousands for speeches that former RNC chairs made for free, Steele has actually been doing some work to benefit his party.
According to the National Black Republican Association, 32 blacks will be on the ballot for Congress in the upcoming elections.
Honestly, while the vast majority of these candidates stand little chance of getting elected to Congress, Steele should be commended for opening up the closed ranks of Republican candidates to new black faces.
While I have little love for black Republicans, it's important for black people to have candidates on both sides of the political ledger.
It's clear that Democrats pays more attention to the needs of black people than Republicans, so it's no accident that every black person in Congress is a Democrat. Same goes for the first African American to live in the White House.
The problem is that Democrats could begin taking blacks' interests for granted, knowing we have nowhere else to present our grievances.
There is no reason in the world why both political parties don't take the concerns of black people seriously. If some black people can work themselves to leadership positions in the GOP, black people may actually get to choose politically.
This is the most frustrating consciousness that a Black person can have in my estimation.
The author is more appeased by those who "pay attention to the NEEDS of the Black community" than he ventures to detail a few more important points:
- Have the COMPETENCIES of the Black Community been enhanced after our "needs" have been attended to?
- Is the "American Political Domain" the only means by which our "needs" can be addressed?
- Though the author "does not like Republicans" does he value the need for DIVERSITY in addressing problems where he will not be the one firing the fatal shots against these Black Republican candidates, as he pursues the goal of maximizing the Democratic Party hegemony over the Black Community and the Rest of America?
In summary the author proclaims that the Democratic Party, and by extension "progressivism" is more POPULAR with the Black community than is its "Republican" or conservative alternative. Please note that the author never talks about EFFECTIVENESS of this popularly chosen track.
With Mr Shepard being a part of the array of loosely conjoined Black Establishment operatives he continues the trend of self-diagnosis, self-prescription and self-appraisal. With the Democratic Party being the uncontested establishment WITHIN the Black Community where does Mr Shepard step back and scrutinize the existing "all Democrat" array of forces that control the Black community? He knows that to do so would require a bit of self-indictment.
Certain ironies are likely missed by Mr Shepard. The irony that this week the home town of the "first Black President" who is also a Democrat having calls for the deployment of National Guard troops for the protection of Black people as they strive to live in peace in their own communities. As an opinion columnist who is inclined to proudly proclaim the "mission accomplished" with the election of President Obama into office Mr Shepard is disinclined to note that Chicagoland is "Democratic country". Despite having "the party that he likes" in power the interests of the Black Community appear to be stuck in the form of "Little Rock 1957", where the national guard was needed to insure our protection just the same.
Beyond the question of "Democrat" or "Republican" - attributes of the "American Political Domain" I make the claim that our choice is not binary. Despite the one party rule of the Black Community our "needs" have not been addressed. I don't believe that the "Lampblack Yellow Journalists" who function as marketing machines for the Progressive Establishment are going to ever venture to ask IF there are other models that exist which might address our problems. More importantly address our problems by deploying our own HUMAN RESOURCES as the primary agent of salvation.
Who among these journalistic voices are going to make note that despite the "WINS" that the Black Establishment has lined our votes up to assist in our fundamental "needs" still have not been addressed? TRYING HARDER is not the appropriate disposition to take in securing this success.
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