The Continued Marginalization of Blacks By Democrats

Am I the only one who sees the constant marginalization of Blacks by Democrats?

White elitist Democrats have done more damage to the Black community than any person with a white hood over his head, or any Confederate statute resting on the grounds of any state capitol.

One need look no further than the 2020 Democrat presidential field.

Democrats have always considered Blacks to be ignorant and lacking the political sophistication to see when they are being played.

The media appointed Black leaders like Al Sharpton, William Barber, Maxine Waters, are guilty of willingly being used to sell out their own community. 

You also have radical leftist groups like the NAACP, the National Urban League, and the Congressional Black Caucus willingly being used as pawns to destroy their own communities.

As I have stated many times, these groups represent their membership; not the Black community.  There is a big difference.

Have you ever noticed when these presidential candidates go into the Hispanic community, they discuss “specific” policy prescriptions that affect this community?  Amnesty for illegals, in-state tuition for illegals, free health care for illegals, and more Hispanic representation in every aspect of our society, i.e. their staffs.

The same thing for the homosexual community.  These candidates are constantly willing to dilute the standing of Blacks to give more to other groups.  When did homosexuality become a civil right?  I don’t recall anyone asking the Black community about this.

These candidates want to bring homosexuals under the Civil Rights Act of 1964; again, specific proposed legislation.

Now, juxtapose the above to when they speak to the Black community.  They talk about reparations, “white privilege,” social justice, or naming a Black as their running mate, with the full knowledge that this will never happen.

WTF???????  What kind of policy proposal is that?  What the hell does white privilege mean?  What is social justice?

How many jobs will these idiotic pronouncements create for Blacks?  How will they prevent one more Black kid from being murdered?  What the hell does any of this have to do with the here and now?

Why is it that liberals can offer specific policy prescriptions to every community other than Blacks?

Deep down in their tony, private, ritzy Georgetown parties, radical liberals really do think Black folks are stupid; and they know IF and when a few media appointed Blacks like Sharpton or the NAACP raises their head to complain about something, all they need to do is simply throw them a few dollars or take a picture with them and they will come down with a sudden case of laryngitis.

Don’t believe me?  I thought Sharpton, the NAACP, the National Urban League, the Congressional Black Caucus all called for the governor and attorney general of Virginia to resign after admitting their use of blackface.

Last time I checked, they are still in office and these Blacks have moved on to talking about how Trump is supposed to be a racist; but obviously, it’s ok for Democrats to be racist.

Democrats don’t take Black folks seriously, never have and never will.  They know all they have to do is show up at these groups’ annual conferences, invoke the name of King and Kaepernick and keep it moving.

And yes, even the Black presidential candidates are guilty of the same thing.  They are quick to do an Obama.  “I am not running to be the Black president; I am running to be president.”

Remember when Newsweek called Obama the “First Gay President?”  He didn’t object to that.  As a matter of fact, he openly embraced it.  He only objected to being called a Black president.  Hmmmm

Can someone explain to me why Booker and Harris wouldn’t hire a Black campaign manager?  Blacks of today are more concerned about multiculturalism more than creating opportunities for their own.

Liberals “claim” they care so much about Blacks, but there has never been a Black to head a major Hollywood studio; homosexuals claim to be so into equality, but why has a Black never led any of their homosexual organizations, like the Human Rights Campaign? Why has the Humane Society of America never had a Black leader?  Just a thought.

These Black presidential candidates seem to have more high-ranking Hispanic staffers than they do Blacks.  How the hell is that even possible?

Say what you will about Jesse Jackson, but without his two failed presidential campaigns from 1984 and 1988, there would be no Donna Brazile, Ron Brown, Alexis Herman, Leah Daughtry, Minyon Moore, etc.  They all are rooted in the Jackson branch of Democratic politics.

Al Sharpton and Obama have no branches extending from their presidential campaigns when it comes to the Black community.

If Blacks don’t open the doors of opportunity for their own people, why should we expect whites to do for us what we are not willing to do for ourselves?

This is why Black voters are not taken seriously by liberals!

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. For more information about BAFBF, visit www.bafbf.org. You can follow Raynard on Twitter@Raynard1223.

Democrats Are Anti-American

Democrats are anti-American.

Yes, I said it and I will not apologize for saying it.  Being an American citizen has almost become a liability in our country based on the actions of Democrats and the Democrat Party.  Err, correction, being an American has become a liability in America.

Anti-American means against America or American citizens.

The Democrats, sprinkled with a few Republicans, constantly advance policies that are to the detriment of the very American citizens they claim to represent.  States like California, Maryland, Texas, and Florida, to name a few, offer in-state tuition for those in the country illegally. 

In California, the average cost of in-state tuition and fees is $ 9,680 versus $32,590 for out-of-state tuition.  So, an American citizen parent who has a kid that lives in Virginia must pay almost four times the tuition of that of a person who is not even a citizen.  How in the hell is that even possible?

In sanctuary cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco, Jose is serving time in prison for murder.  ICE puts a detainer request in so that when he completes his time he can be deported.  But, nooooooooooo, since Jose is locked up in a sanctuary city, the police doesn’t honor the retainer; thus, Jose is released from prison without notifying ICE and he is free to commit another crime, which happens far too frequently.

Juxtapose that with Raheem, an American citizen, in jail for a drug charge and wanted in another jurisdiction for an unrelated crime.  Before he is released from jail the sheriff calls the neighboring jurisdiction to see if they want to pick Raheem up on charges related to their jurisdiction.  Yep, you heard right.

What about criminal justice reform for American citizens?

These are not extreme examples, but rather these are common examples, unfortunately.

Isn’t this discrimination against American citizens?

Al Sharpton, the NAACP, the National Urban League, the Congressional Black Caucus, why have you come down with a sudden and severe case of laryngitis? 

An illegal crosses into the U.S. and makes a claim for asylum.  He is given a court date and the judge says, “scouts honor” that you are going to show up for your court date?  Of course, the illegal tells the judge what he wants to hear and is released. 

The illegal simply disappears into American society and never shows up for his court date.  His punishment?  Democrats want to reward him with citizenship.

Pookie, an American citizen, is arrested for two thousand dollars worth of unpaid parking tickets.  His car is impounded and he is locked up in jail until he pays the parking tickets in full or he MAY be released on some type of bond, but he still will have to come up with a few hundred dollars to guarantee he will show up for his court date.  No “scouts honor” for him because he is an American citizen.

This is not a hypothetical example, this is a real-world example.

Oh, and what about family separation?  If Pookie can’t raise the bail money to get out of jail, he is separated from his kids, and literally put in a cage.

Where are the Democrat’s cries of inhumanity?

Illegals in our criminal justice system get more deference than American citizens.

Where is Van Jones, the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, the National Bar Association (Black lawyers)?  Where are radical journalists like Don Lemon, Joy Reid, Roland Martin, Richard Princess, Joe Madison, or Jason Johnson?  Do they not claim to be “unapologetically Black?”  Whatever the hell that is supposed to mean.  They lose their minds when it comes to illegals, but have nothing to say when it comes to American citizens.

When Raheem and Pookie get caught up in our criminal justice system, they get the book thrown at them, even for civil offenses like a parking ticket; but when it happens to someone in the country illegally, they get rewarded with a social security number, a job, free housing, free healthcare, and free transportation to the American city of their choosing.  And the possibility of American citizenship.  All for committing a series of illegal acts.

When did looking out for the interest of America and its citizens become immoral? 

If putting America first is “nativist” then, I plead guilty as charged; if putting American job security before an illegal is "xenophobic" then, I plead guilty as charged; if wanting federal monies to be spent on American babies who are in poverty and in need of medical treatment is “immoral” then, I plead guilty as charged!

I make absolutely no apologies for my “America first” attitude; and if that means I must suffer all the usual radical liberal name calling, I am more than happy to endure it.  But, if Democrats continue to put the interests of illegals before American citizens, then Trump will be reelected next year, Republicans will regain the majority in the House, and we will expand our majority in the Senate.

Only a radical liberal Democrat would disadvantage their own family, America, to benefit a total stranger from another county; a person he has never met and has absolutely no relationship with.

This is the very definition of anti-American!

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. For more information about BAFBF, visit www.bafbf.org. You can follow Raynard on Twitter @Raynard1223.

NABJ’s Continued Hypocrisy

The sky is blue, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, Obama did nothing for Blacks, water is wet, NABJ is hypocritical.  Yadda, yadda, yadda!

The radically liberal National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) has once again proven their irrelevance. 

They have been lambasting CNN news for not having any “diversity,” i.e., Blacks in executive decision-making positions within the network.

According to their own press release, “…NABJ is concerned about the lack of black representation within the ranks of CNN’s executive news managers and direct reports to CNN President Jeff Zucker.  This concern, coupled with Zucker’s refusal to meet with a four-person NABJ delegation, has prompted NABJ to place CNN on a special media monitoring list...CNN has no Black executive producers, no Black senior vice presidents and no Black vice presidents in the news operation.”

Woooo, I am sure CNN is shaking in their corporate boots!

NABJ has been enjoined in this issue by other radical liberal groups like the NAACP, the Color of Change, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc, etc.

NAACP president, Derick Johnson stated, “Until concrete steps are taken by CNN, the NAACP stands firmly with NABJ and asks Warner Media Group to conduct a diversity and inclusion audit of all its news divisions.”

What do all these radical liberal groups have in common?  They all are bigger hypocrites than the very media outlets they are targeting.

You want an audit?  YOU WANT AN AUDIT?  You can’t handle an audit!

Let’s talk about diversity. 

Can anyone explain to me why all these radical liberal organizations claim to be non-partisan, but, yet during all of their national conventions most of their speakers are all liberal Democrats?

I have been a dues-paying member of NABJ for years, though I am not a journalist, I am a columnist.  I attend many of NABJ’s regional and national conferences and 99.999999% of all their speakers and panelists are liberal Democrats.  Most, if not all of their executive board members are liberal Democrats.  Some will play the “I am a registered Independent” card to provide political cover; but that’s like saying I am a liberal, not a Democrat.

So, how about this NABJ, NAACP, Color of Change, A Phi A, I want you to do an audit of how many Black Republicans and conservatives you have in your leadership.  How about an audit of how many Black Republicans and conservatives you have as speakers and panelists at your events throughout the year?

Unless you are arguing that diversity only encompasses race and not diversity of thought.

When will you fight for my right to be on CNN, MSNBC, and NPR?  I am one of the top Black Republican consultants in the country; worked several presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial campaigns, am a syndicated columnist, and a dues-paying member of NABJ.

Isn’t the diversity of views just as important as racial diversity within the media?  Or is your objective simply the promotion of liberal orthodoxy?

Shouldn’t the Black community be represented in the media both in terms of race and point of view?

I think NABJ can and should be a lot more powerful and influential than they currently are.  I have told this to anyone who will listen to me for decades.

NABJ has decided they are a vestige of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).  They have made the conscious decision to be a radical liberal organization versus an organization of professional journalists.

Is it any wonder that NABJ’s membership gave Hillary Clinton a standing ovation when she spoke at their 2016 national convention in DC and they applauded throughout her speech?

You want an audit?  NABJ, can you tell me if you have ever had a Black Republican as a keynote speaker at any of your conventions in recent years?  If so, when and who?

At last year’s convention, you had panels sponsored by Planned Parenthood and various groups promoting homosexuality; I assumed because they offered you money.

Would you accept sponsorship from the National Rifle Association (NRA)? Or a pro-life group?  Just curious.

So, while these radical liberal groups are being filled with righteous indignation about CNN’s lack of diversity; I wish they would be just as upset about the lack of ideological diversity running rampant in their very own organizations.

How can they hold CNN to a standard that they are not willing to live up to?

But, isn’t that the essence of liberalism?  You can’t have liberalism without hypocrisy.  They want to browbeat others into doing things that they only rhetorically support. 

NABJ wants diversity at CNN, but they won’t do it within their own group.  All I want from NABJ is for them to be what they are looking for.  If they are just slaves to the DNC, just admit it!

But don’t tell me you are a non-partisan group when everyone who is honest knows that everything about the group is promoting liberalism in the media.

How many conservative students have the executives of NABJ placed in jobs?  How many conservatives work in their national headquarters?  How many conservatives are on the planning committee for their upcoming convention?

When all is said and done, there’s more said than done!

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. For more information about BAFBF, visit www.bafbf.org. You can follow Raynard on Twitter @Raynard1223.

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The Republican Party and C-PAC’s Continued Infatuation with Minstrel Shows

Having just concluded the nation’s month-long celebration of Black History Month, the Republican Party and the conservative movement had one of the most disastrous months in my lifetime.

I have warned anyone who will listen that race will be the most dominant issue as we head into the 2020 election cycle, and the party and conservatives are totally ill-prepared and incapable of dealing with this issue of race.

The Republican Party and the conservative movement have done NOTHING, let me repeat NOTHING to show that they are serious about engaging the Black community in any meaningful way.

Put another way, if the Republican Party and the conservative movement were accused in a court of law of wanting “meaningful” engagement with the Black community; would there be enough evidence to convict them?  The answer is a loud, unequivocal NO!!!!!!!!!!

They continue to promote and showcase minstrel shows like Diamond & Silk; and the Black community’s version of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Candace Owens.

Political sycophants like Lynn Patton “willingly” allow themselves to be used as props and pawns all in the name of getting a condescending pat on the head by their overseers.   Congressman Mark Meadows was WRONG for the stunt he used with Patton.  Let me repeat HE WAS DEAD WRONG! 

I know Meadows and he is a very decent guy and I know first hand that he wants to see more Blacks involved with our party, but again, what he did was wrong and stupid; not racist!

The blame is to be placed on Patton.  She should have had the “integrity” to tell Meadows that she would not allow him to use her as a prop, but instead would be willing to submit for the record her account of her personal relationship with the Trump family.

Memo to Black Republicans:  STOP trying to explain Patton’s situation away.  She was willingly used as a prop!  End of sentence.  Lynn, you are NOT a martyr, you simply got used.  Admit it and move on.

In order to have credibility within the Black community, you must call out foolishness when it happens and stop trying to explain it away by giving cover to those who offend us.  There is no explaining away what Meadows did nor what Patton did!

As if the above minstrel shows were not bad enough, it gets worse.

My longtime followers are well aware that the Republican National Committee (RNC) has for several years tried to copy my Black Republican Trailblazer Awards.  They are far too incompetent to successfully imitate me; despite them suing me in court over the very event that even they admit I created.  To read more click on this link:  http://thyblackman.com/2016/02/01/the-rncs-continued-disdain-for-ol-blacks/comment-page-1/.

So, last week the RNC had its perverted knock-off of my Trailblazer and, as is par for the course, they turned it into another minstrel show.

The venue was at a nightclub.  Yep, you heard me right, a nightclub.  They took what was supposed to be a very solemn event that was supposed to recognize Black Republicans that met three criteria:

Made significant contributions to America, significant contributions to the Black community, and significant contributions to the Republican Party. Their honorees were jokes and in no way met the criteria for the award.

Not only was it at a nightclub, but the owner is also a Black liberal who contributes thousands of dollars to the Democrat Party.  What are the odds of Maxine Waters hosting an event at the Washington Times conference center, owned by conservative Republicans?  Hmmmmm

Kamilah Prince, the Black Republican staffer who oversaw the event, should be immediately fired for sheer incompetence.  And if her incompetence wasn’t enough, they hired a white band to provide the entertainment.  I am not kidding; a WHITE band for a Black history event!!!!

Can you imagine Soul Train having a country music artist on its program or the Grand Ole Opry having gangsta rapper Ice T perform? 

Only a Black Republican would do something this stupid!

Memo to white Republicans:  Having a Black staffer is not the same as having a credible Black staffer.

You had a Black female literally showing her ass at the event like some hoochie mama.  Check out the video:  https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/28/rnc-trailblazer-black-conservatives/. 

Now juxtapose this with the honorees I have saluted at the “real” Black Republican Trailblazer Awards:  http://www.bafbf.org/events/.

February 2019 gets better.  C-PAC continues to provide an annual stage for Black Republican minstrel shows like Diamond and Silk, Candance Owens and other Blacks who will say the most ignorant and incendiary things. 

I remind you that C-PAC is the same conservative group that spewed the most racist attack on former RNC chairman, Michael Steel, last year.  Steel was the first and only Black to lead our party.

C-PAC even had some no-name Black, Maj Toure, who said he was both using the conservative movement and being used by it.  “If you can’t be used, you’re useless.”

Former British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, once told me, “To every man there comes a time in his life when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a great and mighty work; unique to him and fitted to his talents; what a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared or unqualified for the moment that could be his finest hour.”

In my hypothetical court question above, the Republican Party and the conservative movement has been found unprepared and unqualified for the moment that could be its finest hour when it comes to the Black community.

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. For more information about BAFBF, visit www.bafbf.org. You can follow Raynard on Twitter @Raynard1223