The Devil You Know

Cartoon illustrating the fact that the white conservative presence
within the Republican Party means it is NOT the party
Black Americans once knew. Joining the GOP would
be same as fighting on the side of the Confederacy.
Jarvis Christian - How can we as Republicans connect with the African American community?

Muhammad Rasheed - The biggest problem that the African-American needs addressed is the nation’s enduring sin of anti-Black systemic racism. Now that the traditionally pro-racism white conservative has taken up residence there, the Grand Old Party is no longer the partisan platform Black people once knew and it is inherently hostile to their interests, property and persons. In this current “Make America Great Again” climate, what does the GOP actually have to offer Black Americans?

THE PROS
Black people will receive pro-business class tax breaks, favorable interest rates, and other perks that come with joining the anti-capitalist tradition/anti-open free market/pro-crony capitalist/pro-corporate cartel/pro-monopoly partyTHE CONS
Black people will be heavily discouraged from consolidating their socio-economic power and seeking to control their own political destiny which will be the only way the will achieve their ultimate empowerment and economic inclusion goals of true equalityBlack people will be expected to give up all dreams of full citizenship in the USA, and it will be understood that they will be delegated to a permanent second class, supporting the white racist aristocracyBlack Republicans will be expected to take on the “Racism is a fiction! It’s all about culture!” rhetoric and turn a blind eye to abuses other Black groups receive that will in effect subjugate and exploit them to feed the white racist aristocracyBoth white liberals and white conservatives are pro-racism, they merely express the issue in different ways. The liberal dangles empty anti-racism & Black Empowerment promises like the proverbial carrot, but has zero intention of helping Black people achieve these goals as they will distract from their own political aims. The white conservative is traditionally more blunt about his anti-Black hatreds (although he has learned to take on a crude ‘code’ to mask his public face in the ‘politically correct’ era which he loathes), and neither party offers what Black people really need—both representing a lesser of two evils position:
Join the Democratic Party and be champions of the poorer classes without any material benefitsJoin the Republican Party and help prey upon the poorer classes while receiving some business perksTo truly connect with the African-American, serious (and moral) leadership—from whichever party wants to use their vote—needs to meet them where they are and work with them to help them reach their true goal of FREEDOM. To be clear, pretending to work with Black people to reach this goal while actually grifting them out of their vote to enrich your own interests, is NOT how to connect with them.

Jo P. Lindsey - 4 thumbs up.

Henry Rogers - Conservative Republicans are wolves. Liberal Democrats are wolves in sheeps clothing.

Paraphrased from Malcom X.

Sathyajith M S - No offence intended ,but dont the liberals champion your cause ?

Asking everybody to meet you and give you work is almost like asking why God susnt give you a hot girlfriend .

Muhammad Rasheed - Liberal party leadership pretends to champion our cause, but without an active political agenda and aggressive pro-Black representation to be the dedicated "squeaky wheel" to pressure them, it will never be a real thing.