Party of Lincoln: We Care A Lot

...cannot seem to fathom why black voters do not vote for them. This is the party of Lincoln, afterall, and you would think they would be hellbent on protecting that legacy, or at least, appearing to.

The thing is, I kind of feel sorry for Black Republicans in that there is a question of racial authenticity (see Obama) because they are Black and Republican; they do not conform to the what the Democratic establishment and its agents think is "authentically" black, whatever that means. This is a question that does not appear as often among working class white Republicans, who were also traditionally Democrats, except in strictly defining the binary. Reagan Democrats have now morphed into the authentic real Americans because they vote Republican, whereas Black people would not be authentically black for the same reason, at least in the black community.

However, when any group gets in the business of mandating "authenticity" on others, you are about a mustache hair from National Socialism, Stalinism, or any other totalitarian ideology that works within such ridiculous binaries, so when Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney get to decide who is an "Uncle Tom" (a race traitor, in other words) or a "Liberal" vs. being "Black" or an "American", you find this ideology churning hard and fast, making specious distinctions between people and groups, you are way closer to that totalitarian mind set than I am ever willing to go.

It is the right of every American, regardless of their ethnicity, class, or religion, to vote against their self interests and buy into the the most ostensibly empowering bullshit imaginable. Our humanity makes this possible. Having said all of this, for the Republican frontrunners to call in sick for a black hosted debate is a disgrace, and feeds in the idea, which they are seemingly clueless about its origins, that they don't give a hot fuck about black people.

Let's pull back for a second, and say, instead, that they don't give a hot fuck about most people. If the GOP, as it is now constituted, were to truly debate in front of its constituency, its real constituency, it would in a closed boardroom somewhere in Dubai, and they'd pipe it in to the so called social conservatives in the rich suburban megachurches can continue their infantile apocalyptic fantasies about Jerusalem and revelation through auto de fey.

Still, for the Party of Lincoln, it wasn't much of a party at all: I mean, they had to roll out Alan Keyes, for crissakes...