Please. It would be ludicrous for me to believe that people do or should think like me. I could care less. But how dare a black person, in good conscience, align themselves with a party that holds them in contempt, as "group-think". Are you or is anybody here blind to the gravity that the Tea Party presents? The Tea Party is the extremist right wing of the Republican Party. What would be its' leftist equivalent? The environmental activists, who want to strap themselves to Sequoias? Sorry, there is no extremist left wing of the Democratic Party. And certainly no wing that advocates racism, bigotry, or overthrowing the government, with visible firearms at the ready.
I have never understood black Republicans, or black conservatives. The only viable reason a black would be a Republican is if one is wealthy and could benefit from the generous provisions for the wealthy provided in the Republican platform. It's not called the "party of the rich", for nothing. Look at Allen West, and Herman Cain....singing the praises of the Republican Party, which clearly benefits no one but its' main constituency, "conservative white males". They seem like house negroes, pointing the direction to Massa in which runaway slaves, had taken off, in quest of freedom and opportunity. They are, in fact, "race traitors", who have collected their 30 pieces of silver (i.e. the prospect of public office and influence), in exchange for selling out their fellows to the Republican Party, intent on marginalizing blacks and persons of color, and ignoring their concerns and interests, which hardly supercedes their own.
