Truth, Lies and In Between

Black Conservatives getting a bad rap from other blacks. Seems that those black folks that can’t see through their own color are the ones with issues. As in racist issues. I see more racism coming from black Democrats, and Democrats in general, than from Conservatives, or Republicans.

The Democrat party is the party that tried to block the civil rights movement. The Democrats were the ones voting against every civil rights issue that came to bear. It was a reluctant Johnson that signed the Civil Rights Act, which came from a Republican Congress. It’s high time for black people to see the Democrats for who they really are, racists.

Black conservative tea party backers take heat
By VALERIE BAUMAN

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – They’ve been called Oreos, traitors and Uncle Toms, and are used to having to defend their values. Now black conservatives are really taking heat for their involvement in the mostly white tea party movement—and for having the audacity to oppose the policies of the nation’s first black president.

“I’ve been told I hate myself. I’ve been called an Uncle Tom. I’ve been told I’m a spook at the door,” said Timothy F. Johnson, chairman of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, a group of black conservatives who support free market principles and limited government.

“Black Republicans find themselves always having to prove who they are. Because the assumption is the Republican Party is for whites and the Democratic Party is for blacks,” he said.

Johnson and other black conservatives say they were drawn to the tea party movement because of what they consider its commonsense fiscal values of controlled spending, less taxes and smaller government. The fact that they’re black—or that most tea parties are white—should have nothing to do with it, they say.

“You have to be honest and true to yourself. What am I supposed to do, vote Democratic just to be popular? Just to fit in?” asked Clifton Bazar, a 45-year-old New Jersey freelance photographer and conservative blogger.

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