Black Republicans Offer Hope After Obama's Historic Failures
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 6:08 AM
The Obama presidency has not led to a post-racial America, says Toby Harnden, but black Republicans in Congress could help break down barriers.
They’re already calling the race for Republican Tim Scott. Republicans Allen West in Florida and Ryan Frazier in Colorado are also in very close races against democrats.
Tim Scott at his office in Charleston. Scott will be the first black Republican congressman from the Deep South in more than a century. (AP)
The Telegraph reported:
Barring a cataclysmic upset, Scott will be elected to Congress on November 2nd. There, he will be a ferocious opponent of Obama, to whom he gives a withering “failing grade” for his presidency.
“Obamacare’s an atrocity around the necks of average Americans,” he told me. “His intentions might be good but he’s leading us towards the brink of bankruptcy. Right now, the American people are simply saying they’ve had enough.”
Scott will be the first black Republican congressman from the Deep South in more than a century. Republicans hope to elect at least two other black candidates to Congress next month. Allen West, in Florida, and Ryan Frazier in Colorado, both with distinguished military records, are in very close races against Democrats.
There are currently 42 black members of Congress, all of them Democrats. Republicans haven’t had a black congressman since J.C. Watts stood down in 2003. Ironically, opposition to the policies of the first black President on a whole range of economic and social issues are a key motivating factor for this new wave of black conservatives.
Rather than ushering in a post-racial era, Obama’s election to the White House appears to have intensified racial divisions in America. This is not, as the Left asserts, because Right-wing opponents are full of white-hooded bigots who refuse to accept a black man as President. Obama’s own strange myopia on race has played a big part.
Someone needs to send this to the haters at the NAACP.
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 91 Comments
Oldpuppymax commented:
AGAIN with the “failures” nonsense. Hussein’s is an AGENDA OF DESTRUCTION, not a misguided course of failure.
Averagemelon commented:
God has an excellent sense of justice.
StrangernFiction commented:
There is no Republican I am rooting harder for than Lt. Col. Allen West. If you told me that I could only have West or Angle elected, I would take West. But ofcourse since I despise Barky I am a racist.
Kathy from Kansas commented:
And speaking of wonderful conservative black candidates named Scott (yes, there’s more than one!)… don’t forget Dr. MARVIN Scott, running for Congress from Indiana’s 7th District!
http://www.drmarvinscottforcongress.com/
Marvin Scott is running to unseat the horrible Andre Carson, who’s not only far, far left, but also the second Muslim ever to be elected to Congress. (Carson is a Farrakhan disciple, and a member of a mosque whose imam has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.) [see Andrew McCarthy's must-read new book, "The Grand Jihad," pp. 354-355]
Jose Rivera commented:
Rock on my brothers, whatever your color, because I don’t notice color like the small minded, hypocritical left Democrat.
gus commented:
Marvin “Dred” Scott. He is free to disagree with the LIBTARD TEMPLATE.
proof commented:
Obama talks about being “post racial”. “Just words” I think is how he characterized it.
These men will actually do something about it.
Libertyship46 commented:
Lt. Col. Allen West will, hopefully, one day be the first CONSERVATIVE Black President of the United States. A man of honor and integrity, he is dedicated to conservative principles and values. He is a stubborn fighter and he’s the real deal when it comes to stopping business as usual in Washington. He is a fine candidate and certainly deserves to win. Help him out if you can on November 2nd. You will be proud to have voted for a solid American like this.
bg commented:
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Scott will be the first black Republican congressman
from the Deep South in more than a century.
Amen & here’s why..
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eaglewingz08 commented:
Want to bet these republicans of color are banned from the Congressional Black Caucus?
Finncrisp commented:
If there was a “White” congressional caucus, it would be labeled as racist. We really don’t need anything other than “American” as our adjective. All of these things are so yesterday if we are serious about moving forward as the united States of America.
Stuart commented:
Isn’t it amazing that we have to rely on U.K. media to find out what is really going on in America. Maybe the Europeans could beam radio programs over here like we did in the fifties with Radio Free Europe. Maybe the Germans will do it. It looks like they are belatedly coming to their senses with regard to European style Socialism.
Indy Voter commented:
There others in the South, Bill Randall is running in NC-13
Star Parker is running in CA, bottom line is there are a number of outstanding candidates running, good luck to all of them!
Peggy commented:
This is just a beautiful thing. Bring on more such patriots.
While I don’t consider myself a Republican, they are the only alternative to the Democrats and the only party with even a ghost of a chance and a real post-racial America and an end to the balkanization that characterizes the Democrats approach to race.
We are all Americans first. May this election be the beginning of the end of the odious practice of dividing us from each other by race, particularly in the realm of politics.
Here is to a future where people group together just based on their shared ideas and values!
Reaganite Republican commented:
Obama worsened racial divides in this country, it’s true… but the real crime is that it was intentional.
But his whole career has been based on rabble rousing… that’s what community organizers do, work one group against another for shameful political gain