I have a confession to make. I am a black republican. Well, at least in theory. In practice, I have never voted republican in my life. But I wholeheartedly value several conservative principles such as:

• Low taxes (especially for business)
• Personal responsibility
• Small government
• Personal liberty
• Capitalism

In an ideal world, these principles would push me towards a republican vote. However there is one glaring thing wrong about the modern day republican party. They just don’t like black people. I can’t vote for a party that gives a f**k less about my people’s prosperity. Republicans have demonstrated throughout recent times that they have approximately zero interest in the progression of Black America. According to the republican rhetoric, black people are lazy, feed off the government, and hinder our nations economic progress. Now I’m not going to lie, some of that ish is true. We as black people definitely need to step our game up, educate ourselves and become economically independent. But that’s another argument for another day. The point I am making is that republicans seem to be more concerned with making us extinct than making us better. They choose to completely ignore us, rather than provide us with insight to how their party and ideas can help grow America. I am convinced that the republican message could resonate with black voters if anyone actually took the time to address us. The big thing in politics nowadays is getting the “Latino vote”, no focus is put on securing the “black” vote.

So in essence we are stuck between two evils. On one hand we have republicans telling us we are second class citizens, ignoring our concerns, and acting like we don’t exist -  On the other hand, democrats and big government are doing a terrific job of keeping us dependent on government programs, and teaching us to be “happy where we are” instead of educating and creating wealth, economic empowerment, and independence for ourselves. They are both evil. It’s just a question of which one is the lesser of the two.

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