Prominent Black Republicans, BV At The RNC

1. Oh well since Spanky has some crazy white broad as his running mate, I think I will switch sides once again and vote for Osama oops,I mean Obama in the election.America,don't you just love this place. You can switch sides in a heartbeat in these dumb elections and who gives a fat dead rat's ass. This is how I feel today,However, Tomorrow I may change my fricking mind!

bigdrob1[pain in the keister + the mouth of the south] at 3:48AM on Sep 1st 2008

2. With the exception of Martin Luther King Jr and Colin Powell, the rest on this list can go to hell anyway.

SHEILA at 1:40PM on Sep 1st 2008

3. Wel, remember many of these individuals are loyal to the original party that liberated them from slavery,at that time the democratic part( for the people: the white people)fought or their rigtsto own slaves, in addition, after the civil rights movement, the democratic(for the pople) now included minoities....

Xiomar at 3:11PM on Sep 1st 2008

4. Let's be for real here,These people were social misfits in school and life. so they latched on to the first thing that came down the pike.We've always had self hating,white people worshiping porch monkies.We just need to stop giving them safe haven and we need to call them out.They are scared anti intellectual syncophants.

Ty at 5:21PM on Sep 1st 2008

5. Yes, even the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican.

debbie sanders at 7:12PM on Sep 1st 2008

6. I find your inclusion of Dr. King on the list of black Republicans to be offensive and misinformed. He did not have a political affiliation. He fought for Civil Rights and an end to poverty--NOT for tax cuts for the rich, and unjust war. The Republican & Democratic parties that we know today have CHANGED over the last 50 years.

zqkingdream at 8:37PM on Sep 1st 2008

7. I was born poor white trash according to some people. Ate and work with Afro-American (I mean side by side) in the south in the fifty. I am not rich or even comfortable. I am also a Republican. I was in the south before a lot of you were born and I say Dr. King was a Republican. Do your research. Take off the blinders. God Bless whoever wins this election.

Dolores Chamberlain at 10:55PM on Sep 1st 2008

8. If you remember your history, the Republican Party WAS the Anti-Slavery party. The only thing the Democratics did for blacks was to create the welfare state and maintain the status quo that keeps intelligent free thinking blacks in a state of ignorance and poverty. To vote for Obama just because he is black is to miss the point and the big picture. He is a dangerous radical who will destroy America. You`ll be sorry!

bad hat at 11:38PM on Sep 1st 2008

9. Lincoln was a republican so it follows negroes j;ocked too republican party until late 60's rise of nixon's southern strategy.....and hard right reared it s ugly head....

wallace handerson at 12:01AM on Sep 2nd 2008

10. As an African American I never realized Dr. Martin Luther King was a Republican. After seeing it here I looked it up. Every African American should read this link. http://www.nationalblackrepublicans.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.DYK-Why%20MLK%20was%20a%20Republican

Lucy at 2:09AM on Sep 2nd 2008

11. Never read or heard MLK was a republican but even if he were his actions certainly were republican. The prominet republicans listed here include one who killed twice and a couple who say they will vote for Obama. Colin Powell is the only one on the list I respect. Me being a Democrat, Colin Powell is the only republican I would even consider voting for President if he had chosen to run.
Maybe next time it'll be Colin Powell and Barack Obama running for the oval office?

Ron at 7:27AM on Sep 2nd 2008

12. Just read the page referred to above and this is something I knew, only thing is everything has changed. Yes it's true Democrats back in the 1800,s and early 1900's were racist, the party of the KKK who lynched blacks, burned black homes.
My grandfather waw a republican and told my dad he never thought one of his sons wouold vote for a Democrat! that was in the late 1930's and 1940 elections when FDR won the presidency. Jump forward to the 1960's when MLK was fighting for civil rights legislation and the civil rights bill was passed, those racist democrats jumped party in huge numbers, they now control the republican party.
The KKK suddenly became republicans, the racist men in Washington who were Democrats jumped parties. If the Democrats started welfare and all the other programs, they were started out as a help for those held captive by a racist nation rather they were Democrats or republican.

Ron at 7:42AM on Sep 2nd 2008

13. I can't believe TD JAKES is a republican he just lost me, and wasn't Martin Luther King III. at the DNC.

MzChea at 2:50PM on Sep 2nd 2008

14. The parties actually had an ideological switch at some point during the fifties or sixties (I think), and all of the segregationists ended up flocking to what we know as today's republican party. As for all the achievement through hard work, "American" values, etc. that today's reps seem to identify with, I don't understand why people feel it is their duty to be submissive to the goverment and allow themselves to be run over and abused by its policies time and time again. Of course the concept of the American dream is a wonderful thing if you've got mad $$$$$$$$$ and you're in a position to make laws, or, at the very least, strongly influence them. As long as I continue to pay a single cent in taxes to our corrupt government, I'm going to demand that the government do things for ME in return. Is that so terrible to have tremendous expectations of the goverment? I'm going to get as many "handouts" from the government as possible!

Mephisto at 6:17PM on Sep 2nd 2008

15. Hello, I work directly with T.D. Jakes public relations. He is NOT on the short list of Black Republicans. Wehave repeatedly and consistently remained non partisan. Please remove his name and call us before making such assertions... This type of unprofessionalism causes needless confusion and we are offended about not being consulted!!!

David Martin at 7:07PM on Sep 2nd 2008