From Christmas to Christmess: A Liberal Journey to Hypocrisy

As I write my last column for the year, I debated what I should write about and these are the thoughts that came to my mind.  So, I hope you enjoy!

As I reflect on the past few decades in our country, there was once a time when the Christmas season was so noncontroversial that it seems the whole country was unified for a period right after Thanksgiving through the new year.

That now seems like a distant memory.

Everything now is so “politically correct.”  I refuse to spend any money with any organization or store that uses “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas.”  Yeah, I know; this is simply my one-man protest of this silly season.

Kids can no longer do nativity scenes at their schools for fear of lawsuits by one atheist or one Muslim.

Now liberals are even trying to make Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer into a homosexual character.  I am not joking.

So, it’s with much amusement that I find the liberal secularists are filled with much hypocrisy versus much joy for their refusal to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas.

They celebrate Christmas, but not Christ.  Please, someone, help me understand this.  Christmas is the celebration of Jesus Christ, thus the name Christmas. 

You can’t have Christmas without Christ no more than you can have a hamburger without meat.  They are both mutually exclusive.  You can’t have one without the other.

Even Burger King admitted as much with the launching of their “meatless hamburger.”  They called it the “Impossible Burger.”  That is the actual name.

They admit that it is impossible to have a hamburger without meat, thus the “Impossible Burger” name.  But yet, they and their customers are telling people they are going to get the new hamburger at Burger King.  Huh? 

They have actually convinced the public that they can literally have a hamburger without meat even though that is an impossibility.

Mind you that these are the same people who are now saying that you can have a penis and yet be a woman, or you can have a vagina and yet be a man.  Though both are scientifically, biologically, and medically impossible.

But, a lie that is repeated enough and goes unchallenged becomes the truth.

This is like saying you love Michael Jackson, but you don’t like music; or like saying you like being on the highway, but you don’t like cars.

You gotta make up your mind.

So, this perverted logic that you celebrate Christmas, but don’t believe in Christ is likewise an impossibility.

We have allowed a few crazy liberals to poison and pervert an innocent celebration of Jesus Christ and the example he left for mankind to follow and turn it into something that is no longer recognizable.

If you choose not to celebrate Christmas, more power to you; but please stop trying to prevent those of us who do want to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas from doing so.

I keep telling y'all what my boy Michael McDonald from the Doobie Brothers said, “What a fool believes he sees, no Wiseman has the power to reason away; cause what seems to be is always better than nothing at all.”

Or what my boys the Temptations told me, “…Every night on my knees I pray, dear Lord, hear my plea, don’t ever let another take her love from me or I would surely die, her love is heavenly when her arms enfold me, I hear a tender rhapsody, but in reality, she doesn’t even know me; it was just my imagination once again runnin’ way with me.”

These are two of my all-time favorite songs.  Both songs are about a man being in love with a woman who they don’t even know; but yet it seems so real that they actually believe they are in love.

In psychology, we have a word for people like this; it’s called psychosis.  This is simply the inability to distinguish between fact and fiction.

So, by having a Merry Christmas, maybe we can help cure the Christmess liberals have created. 

If your psychiatrist or psychologist can’t cure you of believing you can have a penis and yet be a woman, or have a vagina and yet be a man; or believing you are really eating a hamburger from Burger King that doesn’t come from a cow, etc.

Maybe, just maybe you spending a little time this Christmas season to understand the real meaning of Christmas; you just might be able to finally have your blinders removed from your eyes to see that Christmas is not about toys, trees, food, or parties.

It’s the realization that there is a higher power that’s bigger than all of us and the recognition of this higher power is the highest form of enlightenment.  For without this enlightenment, “We are as the sounding brass or a tingling cymbal full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

And with that, a Merry Christmas to ALL!

Raynard Jackson is a Pulitzer Award-nominated columnist and founder and chairman of Black Americans for a Better Future (BAFBF), a federally registered 527 Super PAC established to get more Blacks involved in the Republican Party. BAFBF focuses on the Black entrepreneur.  He is also President & CEO of Raynard Jackson & Associates, LLC, an internationally recognized political consulting, government affairs, and PR firm based in Washington, DC.  Jackson is an internationally recognized radio talk show host and TV commentator.  He has coined the phrase “straticist.”  As a straticist, he has merged strategic planning with public relations.  Call RJA to discuss how they can get you to the next level of your career or business.

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2020 Democrat Primary: Off to The Racists

As grandma used to say, “Boy, the more I talk to you, the dumber I get.” 

I am reminded of this every time I read about the 2020 Democrat presidential primary race.  The more I read, the dumber I get!

For many, many years the base of the Democrat Party screamed that their presidential primaries lacked a diversity of candidates; meaning, racial diversity.

Of course, liberals are never satisfied and no solution is ever good enough for them.  So, they forced the issue of diversity to now include, gender, sexual preference, transsexual, geographic, height, weight, skin color, favorite cartoons, hair color, etc., etc., etc.  The last few I am being somewhat facetious about, though not totally.

I have never supported diversity simply for the sake of diversity.  I don’t think many would argue against racial diversity on your police force, in the military, and within your foreign service; but there is absolutely no place for sexual preferences, transsexual and other foolish criteria being included in their definition of diversity.

Political campaigns, whether for local, state, or federal offices, are the ultimate in free-market expression.  There is one man, one vote.  Michael Bloomberg has the same number of votes as Pookie or LaQueesha in the hood.

Isn’t that the ultimate form of equality?  In Democracy, markets don’t lie.  If the public likes your food, then they will patronize your restaurant.  If the public likes your music, they will buy your CD.  If the public likes your campaign platform, they will vote for you.

IF they don’t support any of the above endeavors, then the people have spoken.  Even if they don’t support you based on your race.  That is their right and that is their choice.

When Democrats claim, with no evidence, that not having a Black in the Democrat primary is racist; do they not realize that they are saying that their own party is racist?  I thought only Republicans could be racist. 

At least that’s what radical liberals like Roland Martin, Joy Reid, Joe Madison, Richard Princess and Whoopie Goldberg would argue.

Remember, when liberals talk about diversity; they don’t mean it in terms of equal opportunity, they mean it in terms of equal outcome.

When New Jersey Senator Corey Booker or California Senator Kamala Harris entered the presidential race, according to this perverted logic; they MUST win because if they don’t the reason MUST be because of their race or gender.  It couldn’t possibly be that the American people simply we're not buying what they were selling.

WTF? Wait a minute, I thought ONLY Republicans and the Republican Party and Trump supporters could be racists?  Hmmmmm.

If South Bend Indiana mayor, Pete Buttigieg, doesn’t win it must be because Democrat voters are homophobic.  Again, I thought ONLY Republicans and the Republican Party and Trump supporters could be homophobic?

How many times must I say to Democrats, NEVER blame your customers, i.e., voters?

Booker and Harris had absolutely no relationship with the Black community until they caught the presidential bug.  Name me one piece of legislation either ever championed that was to the direct benefit of the Black community.

They spent all of their time pushing legislation on issues promoting homosexuality and amnesty for illegals rather than anything of relevance to the Black community. 

The voters are speaking with their votes and money and they are saying they don’t like what either is offering.

Former Secretary of HUD, Julian Castro, had this insightful statement regarding this issue of diversity, “What we’re staring at is a DNC debate stage in a few days with no people of color on it, that does not reflect the diversity of our party or our country.”  Yes, it does!!!!!

The Democrat Party voters are saying that the candidates offered up does NOT reflect the type of diversity they want, duhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

And Sen. Booker had this deep thought to add to the conversation, “There are more billionaires than Black people who’ve made the December debate stage—that’s a problem.”  And his point is what?

Is he proposing voting until he gets the result he wants?

Dr. King fought for equal opportunity, NOT equal outcome.  The Civil Rights movement was about making sure that any and everyone who met the criteria to seek public office was not denied the opportunity to do so.  Nowhere in the movement was a condition that every Black who ran must be guaranteed victory.

According to this perverted liberal logic, hockey, cricket, and soccer are racist sports simply because most teams have no Blacks.  Or could it be that most Blacks have shown little to no interest in these sports?

Or can we use the inverse of this logic?

Can we say that Hip-Hop and rap music are racist since there are few to any whites involved?

This push for diversity was indeed needed and justified back in the day because whites were unwilling to give Blacks what the U.S Constitution had already guaranteed us—full citizenship, with all the rights and privileges thereof.

But as usual, liberals keep expanding the definition of diversity to the point that it has because unrecognizable and silly.  That is why there is such a backlash to the 21st-century incarnation of “diversity.”  It has little to do with race.  For example, there is a push to have one’s choice of hairstyle “protected” under the Civil Rights statute.  I am not joking.

Again, diversity for the sake of diversity is bad.  Everything and everyone cannot be legally codified as a protected class.  There is absolutely no need for any new discrimination laws to be added to the books.  If we simply enforced existing laws, new laws are not necessary. 

But it is nice to finally see the Democrats publicly admit to what we have known all along; that they indeed are the party of racists.

Raynard Jackson is a Pulitzer Award-nominated columnist and founder and chairman of Black Americans for a Better Future (BAFBF), a federally registered 527 Super PAC established to get more Blacks involved in the Republican Party. BAFBF focuses on the Black entrepreneur.  He is also President & CEO of Raynard Jackson & Associates, LLC, an internationally recognized political consulting, government affairs, and PR firm based in Washington, DC.  Jackson is an internationally recognized radio talk show host and TV commentator.  He has coined the phrase “straticist.”  As a straticist, he has merged strategic planning with public relations.  Call RJA to discuss how they can get you to the next level of your career or business.

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The Republican Party’s Brand Problem

Can you imagine anyone using basketball legend Michael Jordan to promote the sport of Cricket?  Can you imagine anyone using the face of a famous vegan to advertise McDonald Hamburgers?  Can you imagine inviting a board member of Planned Parenthood, an extreme pro-abortion group to give a keynote speech to the Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life organization?

The answer is an unequivocal NO.

Can you imagine the Republican Party hiring an all-white band to perform at a Black History Month event?  Can you imagine a presidential campaign sending a Black millennium, a military veteran who is homosexual into the Black community to represent them with the intent of trying to get Blacks to vote Republican?  Can you imagine a non-registered Republican who has never voted for a Republican being used to get Blacks to join the Republican Party?

The answer, again, is an unequivocal NO because we don’t have to imagine it; this, unfortunately, is actually happening right now.

Republicans are supposed to have some of the brightest minds in politics working with them and I believe they do, but somehow these same smart people are very ignorant when it comes to the Black community.

I have said many, many times before and I will continue to say it; having a Black on your staff is not the same as having the right Black person on your staff!

When my party engages with the Black community in the manner described above, it is typically because they are not serious about moving the needle within the Black community.  They are most likely looking for “race” insurance.

We can’t be racist because we have “a” Black on our staff, or we can’t be racist because the one Black person they talked to told them that it was a good idea.

The few Blacks this party talks to measure success by likes, tweets, and followers; people like me measure success by victory.

As someone who makes his living from strategic communications and messaging, I think I know a little something about this subject matter.

I have been telling anyone and everyone in this party who will listen that until we “rehabilitate” the Republican brand within the Black community; there is absolutely no messaging that will resonate within the Black community.

Or as grandma used to say, “Boy, your actions speak so loud, I can’t hear a damn thing you are saying.”

How many people do you think are going to fly on the infamous Boeing 737 Max jet whenever they are cleared to fly again by the FAA? 

After two of their planes fell from the sky within six months of each other, Boeing recognizes that they have a brand problem.  They realize that once these planes are cleared to fly again, the public will be extremely hesitant to fly on them, and rightfully so.

Boeing is planning on spending multiple millions of dollars in advertising to convince a skeptical public that their planes are safe to fly.

I most assuredly guarantee you that on the first flight of the newly certified planes, the CEO of Boeing along with other executives will be on the flight; along with all sorts of media.

In a similar manner, the Republican Party has been “accused” of hating Blacks, promoting policies that are leading to the death of Blacks, and having absolutely no interest in the issues that are of particular concern to the Black community.

The party needs to be “re-certified,” not by the FAA; but by Black Republicans who have credibility within the Black community as well as the party.

Who should be part of this “re-certification” process?  People like Bob Brown, Herman Cain, Jennifer Carroll, Shannon Reeves, John Burnett, Ron Langston, Allegra McCullough, Curtis Hill, Lynn Hutchings, Dave Steward, and John Sibley Butler just to name a few.

If you “claim” to be a Black Republican and don’t know who these people are, then you should have your Republican card revoked!

None of these individuals have lots of tweets, followers, or likes; but they know how to win elections by moving the Black vote by way of their stature within the Black community and within the party.

The Republican Party must decide if their goal is to get tweets, followers, or likes in the Black community; or is their goal to get votes so that we can win elections.

In the short term, you can’t have both; in the long term, you need both.

Raynard Jackson is a Pulitzer Award-nominated columnist and founder and chairman of Black Americans for a Better Future (BAFBF), a federally registered 527 Super PAC established to get more Blacks involved in the Republican Party. BAFBF focuses on the Black entrepreneur.  He is also President & CEO of Raynard Jackson & Associates, LLC, an internationally recognized political consulting, government affairs, and PR firm based in Washington, DC.  Jackson is an internationally recognized radio talk show host and TV commentator.  He has coined the phrase “straticist.”  As a straticist, he has merged strategic planning with public relations.  Call RJA to discuss how they can get you to the next level of your career or business.

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Republicans Have Eyes But Cannot See and Ears But Cannot Hear

In the Bible, Job 3:25 states, “For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.”

How appropriate after last week’s Republican loss in the Louisiana gubernatorial race.

Republicans have lost two of the three governor’s races this year; Mississippi being the only race that we won.  The other governor’s race we lost was in Kentucky.

In Kentucky, the incumbent Republican lost to a Democrat; in Mississippi, the incumbent Republican governor will be succeeded with another Republican; and the Louisiana incumbent Democrat beat a Republican.

So, Republicans had a net loss of one seat, meaning in January, Republicans will control 26 statehouses and Democrats will control 24.

Needless to say, my party is heading in the wrong direction!

In last week’s column, I wrote about the precipitous decline of the Republican Party of Virginia.  Similarly, I predicted we would lose the Louisiana governor’s race because the Republican candidate made a conscious decision to write off the Black community.

Blacks are 32% of the state’s population and 31% of the voting-age population.   Republicans begin their campaigns by writing off nearly a third of the state’s voters or 450, 243 potential voters; therefore, they need to get a significant percentage of the white vote just to be competitive; and there are not enough of them to secure victory.

Before the election, I talked with friends of mine in Louisiana who are political operatives in both parties.  The one common theme I heard throughout the state, from both sides, was that early voting turnout among Blacks was at historic levels.  

Blacks accounted for 31% of the early voting last week for the runoff versus 25% during the primary voting, a 6-point increase.  This means there was approximately 30,000 additional votes cast by Blacks for the Democrats.  The Republican candidate lost by only 40,341 votes.  You do the math.

The Republican candidate only got 7% of the Black vote in last week’s election.  Just think if our candidate would have spent time and money to get somewhere between 10-15% of the Black vote; he would be governor right now.

Because our Republican candidate had no Black operatives around him, they were totally unprepared and unqualified to respond to the Democrats race-baiting radio spots that ran on Black radio.

One Black group ran a series of ads comparing the Republican candidate to notorious racist and KKK member David Duke.

The ad stated, “What is the difference between David Duke, Eddie Rispone (the Republican candidate), and Donald Trump?  The only difference is that Rispone will be governor if you don’t stop him.”

Any Black operative worth his salt would have been prepared for this tried and true Democrat trick and would have prepared the candidate to anticipate this. 

Democrats have no positive policy proposals for the Black community, so they always revert back to the only thing they know—playing the race card!

Trump carried Louisiana by 20 points in 2016 and all the statewide offices are controlled by Republicans other than governor; there is only one Democrat in Louisiana’s congressional delegation.

There is absolutely no reason why a Republican can’t get double-digit support from the Black community.  Sooner or later they will have to face the fact that whites are increasingly becoming a smaller percentage of the electorate; therefore, Republicans must be able to cobble together a coalition from various ethnic groups in order to remain a viable party.

Like Job in the Bible, “For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of, is come unto me.” 

This continued Republican strategy of focusing only on white turnout is the thing I am most fearful of, and election after election they make my fears a reality.

My readers know that I have written frequently on the need for Republicans to cultivate substantive relationships with the Black community. 

I am reminded of the fifth chapter of Daniel in the Bible.  King Belshazzar, the son of Nebuchadnezzar, threw an elaborate party for himself and out of nowhere mysterious handwriting appeared on the wall.  The king brought in all of his wise men to interpret the handwriting, but they couldn’t do it.

His wife knew about Daniel, who was a Godly man; she summoned him and he interpreted the writing and basically told the king that he would be overthrown from his kingdom.  He was overthrown that very night.

Being Black in this Republican Party makes me feel a lot like Daniel.  I have seen the handwriting on the wall for years when it comes to the party engaging with the Black community.

I talk to any and everyone in the party who will listen to me about the value of engaging with the Black community, the handwriting is on the wall.  But, like Belshazzar, maybe we need to suffer a few more loses to see the light.

I pray that God will open the eyes and ears of this party and let those with eyes to see and ears hear; see and hear the handwriting on the wall! 

Raynard Jackson is a Pulitzer Award-nominated columnist and founder and chairman of Black Americans for a Better Future (BAFBF), a federally registered 527 Super PAC established to get more Blacks involved in the Republican Party. BAFBF focuses on the Black entrepreneur.  He is also President & CEO of Raynard Jackson & Associates, LLC, an internationally recognized political consulting, government affairs, and PR firm based in Washington, DC.  Jackson is an internationally recognized radio talk show host and TV commentator.  He has coined the phrase “straticist.”  As a straticist, he has merged strategic planning with public relations.  Call RJA to discuss how they can get you to the next level of your career or business.

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