The Mueller Report: Blacks Better Be Careful

As I always say, “Weak people take strong positions on weak issues.”

Exhibit A for this is the recently released Mueller report.  

Democrats have lost their damned minds over this report.  They didn’t get the result they wanted, an indictment of President Trump, so they figured if they keep investigating, they will come up with something they can use to remove Trump from office.

Mueller’s report was very clear, on both the accusations of collusion and obstruction, there was NOT
sufficient evidence to bring charges in either circumstance!  Period. End of sentence.

Was there unflattering information about Trump and his aides in the report?  Yes. Did Trump and some
of his aides walk up to the line between legal and illegal?  Yes. But, in our system of justice either you
violated the law or you didn’t, and Mueller clearly concluded that Trump and his aides did not cross the line.

So, legally Trump and his aides are in the clear; politically is where the problem is-- for Democrats,
especially Black Democrats.

Let’s get one thing straight, Democrats don’t have the guts to actually file articles of impeachment
against President Trump after Mueller has clearly stated there is not sufficient evidence for him to
bring any charges.

Now radical liberal Democrat members of Congress like Maxine Waters and Al Green are running
over each other demanding that the president be impeached.

Hmmm, do you really want to go down that road?

Let me paint a picture for you to consider.

Jussie Smollett, the actor who concocted a fake story about being assaulted in Chicago, had all charges dismissed against him.  Legally, like Trump, he is in the clear.

In all probability, the U.S. Department of Justice is going to file federal charges against Smollett for mail
fraud because he mailed a fake letter threatening himself but made it seem as though the letter was mailed
by someone else.

I can guarantee as clear as day that Waters and Green will be the first to claim that the Justice Department
is only doing it because Smollett is Black, with absolutely no evidence to support their claim.

But wait.  Let me make sure I understand.  Mueller found insufficient evidence to bring forward charges of
collusion and obstruction against Trump; but Democrats say to hell with Mueller, we want impeachment.  

But, if and when something similar happens to a Black, then it is racist?  I am through. I have a headache!

The one takeaway for me in the Mueller report that no one seems to be talking about is how the report made clear that in America we have two systems of justice.  One for the rich and well connected—Jussie Smollett and Hillary Clinton; and one for regular people like Pookie and LaQueesha.

Russian intelligence knew how corrupt and vulnerable the Clinton’s were to their intelligence operations.
They knew that Clinton’s loyalty was to money, not America.

Every country, let me repeat, EVERY country that has the means, spy and interfere in the internal affairs
of other countries.   

I laid this out in a column I wrote two years ago titled, “Russia is Winning the War for American Minds.”

Americans, for the first time in history, have had a front row seat to a psychological operations campaign
live and in living color; in real time.  This, indeed, is unprecedented.

So, to radical Black liberals, you better be careful!  You didn’t like the results of the Mueller report, so you
want to treat Trump as though he was indicted.  

When this happens to someone Black, remember you started it!

In liberalism, the intent is more important than results.  As a matter of fact, that is the sole basis of liberalism
not results.

So, when white folks hold you to the same standard; please spare me your cries of racism!

Democrats are in the process of ensuring the reelection of Donald Trump as president.  They have provided
absolutely no serious vision of where they want to take America.

They have offered nothing but grandiose platitudes to the American people, especially to Blacks; reparations,
DC statehood, etc.

Have you noticed that not one Democrat candidate for president has mentioned anything about the killings
going on in Chicago?  Or the stagnant wages of the Black worker despite the phenomenal Trump economy
for Blacks?

They have spent more time talking about amnesty for the upwards of 30 million illegals because they are too
ignorant to realize that when you increase cheap labor into the marketplace wages go down!

The reason Democrats are obsessing about the Mueller report is that they have nothing of any substance
by way of policy to offer the American people.

The reaction by radical Black liberals to the Mueller report should serve as a cautionary tale for the Black
community.  

There will be a “Black” version of Donald Trump and he will be subjected to the same treatment as our
current president.  When it happens just admit that what’s good for the goose is good for the gander; and
it has nothing to do with race!

Raynard Jackson is a Pulitzer Prize-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.

One Moment In Time

Last Sunday, on my flight back to Washington, DC, I, like millions of people all over the world, was captivated and mesmerized by the play of Tiger Woods during the final round of the 2019 U.S. Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia. 

As Woods tapped in his final putt to ensure his victory, there was a loud cheer that went up throughout the entire golf course; there was also a very audible cheer that you could hear throughout my plane.

For those of you who don’t follow golf, Tiger Woods had totally dominated golf in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Woods turned pro in 1996 at the age of 20.  In 1997 he won his first Masters by a historic 12 strokes, making him the youngest player in history to win this tournament.  In his first ten years as a professional, Woods won thirteen majors, which was and is unprecedented.

Tiger was so dominate in golf, that the majors began to redesign golf courses to make them more difficult; thinking this would give Wood’s competitors a better chance of defeating him.  This was called “Tiger-proofing.”

During the next decade, Woods encountered all sorts of personal and professional problems; marital infidelity and numerous health issues.  Many of Woods detractors and the so-called experts predicted that Tiger would never win another major and was all but washed up.

His Masters win on Sunday was his first major victory in eleven years.  Tiger’s victory on Sunday will go down as one of the greatest comeback stories in sports history. 

So, while everyone was celebrating Tiger’s improbable comeback on Sunday, my mind drifted in a different direction.

I heard the voice of Whitney Houston singing the 2008 Seoul Olympic theme song, One Moment In Time.  One of the verses goes like this:  …”I want one moment in time, when I’m more than I thought I could be, when all my dreams are a heartbeat away, and the answers are all up to me, give me one moment in time, when I’m racing with destiny, then in that one moment of time, I will feel free, I will feel eternity.”

For one moment in time, the world and America specifically, didn’t see race; for one moment in time Tiger Woods and America was great again; for one moment in time, Blacks and whites were hi-fiving; for one moment in time, there were no enemies.

What was it about this golf tournament, embodied by Tiger Woods, that gave us a brief respite from all that divides us?

The answer is very simple, my friend.

Tiger Woods is the American story of defeat and triumph; sin and redemption; agony and ecstasy. 

Oh, and did I tell you that Tiger Woods is also Black?  Tiger was celebrated not because he is Black, but because he overcame and excelled.

Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, this is what makes America great.

America was birthed in sin with its treatment of the Indians who were already here and the importation of Blacks as slaves.  We have overcome these issues with the various treaties signed with Indians and the various Civil Rights laws that have been passed to make America more equal.

I know my white conservative friends like reading my columns when I call out radical liberals like Holder.  But like in algebra, there are two sides to every equation in a math problem. 

Why was Tiger able to excel?

This answer to, my friend, is very simple.

Tiger was able to excel because he knew what the rules were upfront.  No one started the match with an advantage. 

Income didn’t matter.  Race didn’t matter.  Family lineage didn’t matter.  Religion didn’t matter.  Nationality didn’t matter.

Everyone played on the same golf course.  Everyone was subjected to the same weather conditions.   Everyone’s equipment was based on the same set of standards. 

To qualify for the Masters, either you met the cut-off score or you didn’t.  Once you have established a system based on fairness, then your talents and skills will take you as far as you want to go.

America has come a long way in this regards, but we are a long way from where we ought to be. What makes America great is that we are on the road to redemption from our past; we still have work to do. When our justice system treats everyone the same for identical crimes; when our legal system is no longer tilted in favor of those with wealth; when our school systems are not based on one’s zip code; then, maybe we can have that one moment in time.

That one moment in time when “the answers are all up to me…that one moment of time I will feel free, I will feel eternity.”

Raynard Jackson is a Pulitzer Prize-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.

America Is Great When It’s Unreasonable

Last week I was totally mortified when I heard former U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder ask on national TV, “Exactly when did you think America was great?”

WOW!!!!

You have got to be kidding me.  This, from a man whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from Barbados and their child, ended up being the first Black U.S. Attorney General in the history of our country.  

Really?

I wrote a column about this two years ago and stated, “…Here are a few questions for my liberal friends. If America is so racist, how did we elect a Black man as president? If America is so racist, how did we have two consecutive Black secretaries of state (Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice)? If America is so racist, how did we have two consecutive [Black] attorneys general (Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch)? If America is so racist, how are African-Americans making millions of dollars in sports, music, business and technology?... America was great when former President Lincoln freed the slaves. America was great when Congress passed the Civil and Voting Rights Acts in the 60s. America was great when they elected the first Black president in 2008. America was great when we witnessed, yet again, the peaceful transfer of power to Donald Trump from Barack Obama, despite just witnessing one of the nastiest presidential elections in our nation’s history.”

America is still great when a white Republican congressman friend of mine, Rep. Paul Gosar from Arizona’s 4th congressional district, asks me to work with him to put together a economic summit of some of the top minority entrepreneurs from across the country because he wants to know how he can help them grow their firms and  find out from them what their concerns are so he can be a facilitator for addressing their concerns.

We had a packed hotel ballroom of Blacks, Asians, Hispanics, Indians and even the Vice President of the Navajo Nation.  Attendees came from all over the country.

What is more indicative of America’s greatness than diversity?

A white congressman, co-hosting a major economic forum with a Black from the hood of St. Louis.  Minority entrepreneurs from across the country who would normally never be in the same room together discussing ways they can work together.

A liberal media described “racist,” President Trump thought enough of our event to dispatch three of his top aides to join us:  Henry Childs, II, National Director of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA); Michael Platt, Assistant Secretary Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, U.S. Department of Commerce; Anthony Foti, Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, U.S. Department of Commerce.

Congressman Gosar, by any measure, has one of the best staffs in Washington, DC.  His Chief of Staff, Thomas Van Flein and Leslie Foti, Director of Scheduling & Administration, are two of the sharpest staffers in DC; they are all in on promoting minority entrepreneurs. 
America is great when freshman Congresswoman, Debbie Lesko, from Arizona’s 8th congressional district, makes time to participate in our summit and asks me to visit with her in her DC office to find out how she can work with me in my efforts to help minority businessmen.

America is great when the elected Vice President of the Navajo Nation, Myron Lizer, plainly states that he wants to find ways to do business with the Black community. 

America is great when the newly elected chairman of the Arizona Republican Party admits that the party need to do a much better job engaging with the minority community throughout the country; and wants me to work with her in this pursuit.

I told Congressman Gosar that we have definitely struck a vein with our economic summit.  He is reconvening us back in Phoenix in June to execute our next steps. 

The attendees, without exception, have committed to staying engaged with our initiative and are excited that we are totally focused on helping them produce new revenue streams.

We have already begun to receive calls from across the country asking us to bring our show to their cities.

If the Republican Party begins to focus on what makes America great, we can make major strides within the minority community.

America’s diversity is its greatest strength.  If you take our diversity and tie it to the American entrepreneurial spirit, that’s a helluva combination that has broad appeal to the minority voter.

Those who follow my columns know that I have been a big critic of the party’s lack of substantive engagement with the minority community, but I am very encouraged that people like Congressman Gosar and Lesko and Kelli Ward seem to really understand the potential of the minority business community.

As I stated during my remarks at last week’s summit, “the reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man adapts the world to himself; therefore, all progress is dependent upon the unreasonable man.”

I hope the Republican Party and the Trump administration begins to become unreasonable!

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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We Are “Us”

Two weeks ago, I went to the theater to see Jordan Peele’s latest movie, Us.  This was his follow-up movie to the box office hit Get Out.


Peele is an extraordinarily gifted writer.  He has written for shows like Mad TV, Key & Peele, The Last O.G., etc.


He won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his horror movie, Get Out; which was also his directorial debut in 2017.


His latest horror flick, Us, is also receiving rave reviews.  It starts off kind of slow, but when it does pick up, you are taken on an emotional rollercoaster ride in the vein of Alfred Hitchcock.


Note to millennials, civilization did not start when yall came out of the womb; nor is Friday the 13th a horror movie; it is simply a blood and guts movie with absolutely no substance to it.


If you want to know what horror movies are, then seeing Get Out and Us is a must!


In this column, I will not give you the typical movie critique, but rather give you a unique observation on Peele and his two hit movies, Get Out and Us.


What Peele is doing is so mind-blowing and so historic, I am truly hoping that he sets off a series of copycat movies, and not for the reason you might think.


Not only is Peele the Alfred Hitchcock of our time; but more importantly, he is the Bill Cosby of our time.


His movies send you on a g-force ridden ride and then drops you back down to that sunken place only to repeat itself again and again, and again.


Just like Hollywood told Cosby that America was not ready for a prime-time Black family that was intact and fully functional; Hollywood, to this day, believes you can’t cast a Black in the lead role of a major movie and have the broad appeal that will make money.


Of course, the movie Black Panther destroyed that myth, but Hollywood said that was because it had an African backdrop and was targeting a Black audience.  Let’s concede these points for purposes of this column, even though I could dissect this erroneous premise.


Us is a “mainstream” movie with not only a Black lead, Lupita Nyong’o, but she is also extremely black in skin tone.

Hollywood and most Asian countries are still under the ignorant notion that a very dark-skinned person is not as marketable as a fair skin Black like Halle Berry, Regina Hall, or Gabrielle Union.


Nyong’o is joined in the film by 13-year-old Shahadi Wright Joseph, a very cute dark-skinned actress.  They both are major characters throughout the film.


In Get Out, the lead actor was Daniel Kaluuya and the main supporting actor was Lil Rel Howery, both very dark-skinned actors.


Kaluuya is of Ugandan heritage and Nyong’o is of Kenyan heritage.  So, Peele is not only destroying the myth that Blacks can’t carry a movie, but he is also proving that Africans can also carry a major Hollywood production and still have global appeal while making money.


I am not sure people truly understand how Peele is making global tectonic shifts in how Blacks who have dark skin are viewed.  This will have a generational impact on Hollywood.


The other issue no one seems to notice about Us is the Wilson family, which the movie is centered on, is a totally functional Black family.  There is absolutely no dysfunctionality in this family.  They work professional jobs, don’t use or sell drugs, the daughter is not having sex or is not pregnant, the son is put in check by the father every time he gets out of line.

They are the Cosby family in a horror movie without sacrificing the Cosby family values for marketability purposes.  This is a major accomplishment for Peele


When was the last time you saw a major Hollywood movie that had no sex, very little cursing, no using of the n-word, and absolutely NO promotion of homosexuality?


There was no Trump bashing or Republican trashing.  There were no overtly political messages or the promotion of Hollywood liberalism.


Us, truly allowed you to escape, for two hours, the reality of all of your daily cares and to actually be entertained in a way that was truly “escapism.”


If Peele stays true to this type of movie making, I think he single-handedly can change the way Blacks, especially those of a darker hue, are viewed by Hollywood; and ultimately the world.


Yes, Black actors can carry a movie globally and profitably; yes, Blacks can be portrayed in substantive, positive roles; and yes, Blacks do have many functional family units, with mom, dad, and children.


Peele is showing the world that there is a full range of possibilities lying dormant within the Black community.  He has chosen to use his platform in the most positive of light; tearing down the tired ole stereotypes that never did properly show who Black folks really were.


This side of the Black community is not an aberration; it is more common than the media or Hollywood will ever show.  Peele is simply one of the few Blacks in Hollywood who has chosen to exercise his power for good by showing that “we are Us.”

Raynard Jackson

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.