Raynard Jackson
BlakPAC Blogger
While there is no denying that Donald Trump has had a terrible past couple of weeks with his dogged focus on some obscure federal judge in San Diego, I think Trump can right the ship, but he has an extremely narrow window to do so.
I will deal with that in a future blog.
This controversy with Trump and the judge has revealed yet again how
unprepared the Republican Party is, in the 21st century, in dealing with
the issue of race, especially, relative to the Black community.
I have advised some of the biggest names in politics, business,
sports, and entertainment on racial and other career threatening crises.
The first thing I have noticed with Republicans dealing with the
issue of race is that they deny that whatever happened was racist. Why
does this happen? Well, that’s an easy question to answer. Republicans
are surrounded by White staffers, who think they know more about the
Black community than Black people do. And I’m speaking from personal
experience, as recently as last month.
Memo to Republicans # 1: Never, I mean never say to the media, “I am
not a racist.” That means you are losing the argument. Remember former
President Nixon’s famous rejoinder, “I am not a crook?”
Again, for purposes of this column, I am not specifically talking
about Trump and the judge, but rather the Republican Party in general
when it comes to issues that have a racial component.
There are absolutely no Blacks in positions of power or influence
anywhere within the Republican Party. There are none within the
Republican National Committee (RNC), National Republican Senatorial
Committee (NRSC), the National Republican Congressional Committee
(NRCC), nor any of the presidential campaigns.
Republicans have all White advisors and consultants trying to advise
them on racial matters impacting the Black community, and they can’t
understand why things keep blowing up in their faces. Duhhhhh!
Memo to Republicans # 2: Don’t just go out and grab the first Black
person you see and come back to me and say, “Now we have a Black, so
please shut up.”
Many Black Republicans are whiter than their White counterparts, and
this is by design. Many Black Republicans have absolutely no connection
to the Black community; nor any skill set to put them in a position of
advising the party on racial matters.
The Republican Party wants Blacks around them who they are
“comfortable” with, not Blacks who will speak their mind and who know
what the hell they are talking about.
You have Black Republicans being pimped by the media to constantly
denounce Donald Trump, because they are media whores who are looking for
the proverbial pat on the head from “massa,” but these same Black
Republicans have laryngitis when it comes to the lack of “real” Black
staffers, consultants, and advisors within the party.
Except for BlakPAC, I have no record of these same Blacks speaking about how White our
upcoming national convention is going to be, how there has been little,
if any, opportunities for Black Republicans to do business with the
upcoming convention. Seems like you have more opportunity to do business
with the convention if you are a Black Democrat—go figure.
How can you have a White twenty-something writing a speech about
civil rights or voting rights for a Republican leader to give? I am not
exaggerating, this is actually happening.
The party needs a plethora of “real” Blacks who have a connection to
the Black community, who understand messaging in terms of
communications, and who have personal relationships with the media, and
understand how to connect all of these into a coherent strategy.
The party has virtually no Black surrogates who can push back in the
media against all the Black liberals on MSNBC and CNN, so a lie that is
repeated enough, becomes the truth.
So, while many in the party are speaking out against Trump (some of
it is well deserved and warranted), I wish these same people would be
just as vehement in fighting against the radical liberal agenda that
President Obama and Hillary Clinton have been promoting.
And to my Black Republican friends, I don’t think all of your
denunciations of some of Trump’s comments are not legitimate, but where
are your voices on other issues that impact the Black community relative
to the party?
BlakPAC is the only organization to get Black students internships with our
congressional members BlakPAC is the only organization to promote legislative
solutions to address issues of particular concern to Blacks (access to
capital for Black entrepreneurs, aide to HBCUs, promotion of school
choice, etc.)?
And finally, Memo # 3: To my Black Republicans, always remember, when all is said and done, there is more said than done.
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