Aug
Aunt Thomasina
Being a Black Conservative woman in today’s world is a tough sell.
Sure, Black Conservatives and Black Republicans have been in this country since the Civil War.
Why then is being a Black Conservative a dirty word in the African American world?
What has happened to the black community that we condemn, blast and hate anyone who claims the label of Black Conservative.
THE BELOW PARAGRAPH IS COPIED FROM WIKKI
From Reconstruction up until the New Deal the black population tended to vote Republican as the Republican Party, particularly in the Southern United States, was seen as more racially liberal than the Democratic Party, primarily because of the role of the southern wing of the Democratic Party as the party of segregation and the Republican Party’s roots in the abolitionist movement (See Dixiecrats for more on this). Blacks started to shift in significant numbers to the Democrats with the election of Franklin Roosevelt[6], whose New Deal particularly benefited economically disadvantaged minority communities and helped forge the New Deal coalition which dominated American politics for the next 30 years, and continued with the election of John F. Kennedy, an Irish-Catholic Democrat who pioneered racial equality legislation while in office, resulting in a flight of conservative Democrats in the South to the Republican Party
These statements seem to suggest that black conservatives where excluded from the Republican party with the advent of FDR and John Kennedy.
