No one in the Republican Party should beg for a black vote. Sensible, issue-oriented black Americans find it very comfortable to be arm in arm with Americans who believe in the Constitution and are basically conservative in their values. These are Conservatives and Independents who see a future with a Conservative Republican Party.

The Tea Party folks are making it abundantly obvious that they are not going to accept liberal Republicans who act like socialist Democrats once elected.

If black Americans want a Socialist-Marxist country, they should continue to vote for the Socialist-Marxists in the Congress, Democrats, and the White House. If black Americans want a country where we all have an opportunity to succeed built on our ability and hard work and believe we should preserve and protect our Constitution and Declaration of Independence go to a Tea Party Rally and meet some like people of all colors.

Another thing black Americans should consider, dumping lying organizations like the NAACP who are slandering good American people in the Tea Party Movement as racists. The day you can call someone a racist and it sticks…is OVER.

Open your eyes, use your common sense, read, talk to other people who believe the government is NOT the answer, it is the problem. Then VOTE.

As for the parties ignoring people, I'll agree with that. Republicans are increasingly leaning towards corporate and religious interests and seem to have lost their core concept of fiscal responsibility. Also, if the Republican platform is budget cuts and heavy law enforcement, how does that appeal to black voters? Democrats are just weak, plain and simple. They know that their voters are anyone who is just horrified with Republicans. They don't need to reach out to anyone since their voters are trapped by "not voting for Republicans." I guess the question is this, if you aren't going to vote Democrat, then who are you going to vote for? It's a rotten situation but we're all in it, not just black people.

Chasing Glenn Beck


Commentator’s message on point – and progressives know it

Published Monday, August 30, 2010 6:02 pm

By Harry Alford, NNPA

I never thought it would have gone this low so fast. 

On the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech the major civil rights groups or should we now say “human rights” groups coalescing together not to celebrate the anniversary but to protest a white cable television icon’s celebration of the event.  Something is very strange about this.  It is like there is no agenda any longer for our human rights groups from an African-American perspective.  They are now fighting for immigrants, gays and lesbians and ex-offenders regardless of their color.  Direct action for African- Americans is fading fast and that is not a good thing.


Just why are they upset with Glenn Beck?  I believe it is because of his criticism of President Barack Obama. It seems that President Obama’s administration can fend for itself but these groups feel it is their duty to defend the honor and reputation of this publicly elected official.  What it has come to is Democrats versus Republicans even though these groups are 501(c) 3 organizations which are supposed to be nonpartisan. The truth is they are terribly partisan to a fault. In essence, former civil rights groups are now human rights groups terribly influenced by the labor movement (unions) and hopelessly directed by the Democratic Party. They represent the Democrat machine not the people. Please be aware of this fact.


From my black viewpoint, Mr. Beck has been on the “1” in discussing the contributions of Frederick Douglas, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver and many others.  
So why are these human rights Democratic groups bashing him.  Could it be the money they receive from the DNC that is doing it?  Probably, it is reported that the Department of Education is giving one organizer $1.5 million to talk about education with Secretary Arne Duncan, who attended the protest rally, by the way.


I went on the Glenn Beck show last December after a series of regrets.  I finally relented just to see what would happen.  We talked about the racist innuendos of California Senator Barbara Boxer and the discrimination by construction unions in employment and contracting.  The professionalism of his staff was very impressive.  More than that, they were quite diverse with blacks interacting at the management level.  My wife and I must admit that the professionalism of his staff is probably better than that of any other talk show host. 

Here's hoping that neither the African American nor human rights community, of all colors, will allow themselves to be so taken for granted that we tolerate that—genocide, in the heart of Africa.