A Different Way to Think

I am definitely on the Herman Cain bandwagon right now.  I’d never really read his story or listed to his ideas until recently, but he definitely creates some intrigue.  I’ve been among the group that hoped to see a Palin or a Trump earn the nomination early on.  I saw Cain as a fringe candidate with no chance at all like an Alan Keyes or Jessie Jackson.  But then my mind was changed when I saw something unexpected.

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Since I had no phone to listen to in my car today I had time to think (2 hrs) on the way to and from work. Thinking back I was always somewhat conservative but didn’t know it.  My experiences working a series of bad jobs helped me discover myself politically in an environment where my race blindly follows one viewpoint and doesn’t nurture or support the opposing views.

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It’s sad that 99% of black people are democrats but for no real reason.  They get caught up in the retoric and believe they are entitled to be propped up by the government to make up the achievement gap instead of getting there through personal responsibility.  Not only do Democrats reinforce the entitlement and try to mandate it through the government, but they continue to depress black people by assuming that our worst enemy isn’t ourselves, but some pale skinned boogeyman with a Republican party membership.

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Just two years ago there was a huge shift in American politics.  Independents and the normally non-voting black population got on the side of Obama and won the White House, while democrats were already in charge of Congress.  The media had all but sounded the death toll on conservativism, saying that America had changed too much for Republicans to win.    There was a small rumble from the Tea Party movement which feared what a Democratic led government was planning to do.  Fortunately for Conservatives rather than being intelligent and transparent with the agenda, the Obama regime decided to ram everything thru Congress early so that once the laws were made we could see how great they would be.  Of course if you take those kinds of chances even when passing something that America doesn’t appear to want like the healthcare reform, you get people mad at you.  That anger has forced the independant voters back to the right.  Add that to the fact that black voters don’t seem to care to vote in the other races when there isn’t a black candidate and the conservative movement has gotten a shot in the arm from the uber liberal president. 

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As a black Libertarian I am no stranger to the flawed backwards looking thought process of black people in America.  I have had to debate the merits of forward thinking and big picture thinking and seeing us as Americans and not as a separatist culture of pseudo-Americans.  If you dig deep enough you’ll hit that point at which any black person exposes their own prejudice and racism.  The problem is that they have been raised to think that their separate African America is the better culture and that the rest of the world is racist and only moments from re-instating racism.  All the shortcomings of black people are the result of others.  Anything a white person says that doesn’t agree with black culture is racist, yet black people can’t be racist.  I’m here to introduce a new, truly progressive way to view black people.  We are not the seperate group of people who are special because we look the same.  We are Americans who happen to have brown skin.  Our equality will not come through the actions of others but through our actions.  There is a reason there are some people who are extraordinary and successful, but most black people are not.  Because the successful look to the future and work on securing it instead of living in the past.  But I have strayed beyond the point.  The point is that there are plenty of Shirley Sherrod’s in the real world who are not being taken out of context from a dated speech.  They say the things we thought Sherrod did in today’s world.  Here’s a chat transcript from a friendly debate I had with one.