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Name: jazzfan

Comment: Do you notice that JCP NEVER does say that he's proud as a Black man?

Name: jazzfan

Comment: JCP, what do you think about the actions of fellow "Black conservative" Alan Keyes, as chronicled in today's EUR? Did you guys think to check the citizenship of either Bush or Reagan?

Name: TGen

Comment: Reading your post, one would never know the breadth of the racial injustice in this country's history. You make it sound as if people who have acknowledged the REALITY of its racist history are somehow delusional or overlycynical, as if their cynism had no basis. There was NO reason to doubt America, huh? Really? I think this passage in your article is telling: "I do not discount our nation’s founding because of the original sin of slavery; I have always celebrated this nations founding. I do not wish to toss away the Declaration of Independence because of white racism; I want to make the principles found in the document real." In fact, you DO "discount our nation's founding" in your insistence on discounting racism and the effect of racism historically--a MAJOR part of that founding. You completely dismiss it as if it was some insignificant spec on the great landscape of America. No JPhillips, it wasn't a little spec--it was/is/will remain a MAJOR blotch. You don't realize it, but in your dismissing the magnitude of racism in this country's history, you inadvertently take away A LOT of its due praise after this election. You contend that it hasn't really come that far (it was always "great" according to you) when really you should express your great love for your country like this: A country that systematically perpetuated living hell on a group of people have grown so much it actually has elected a member of that community to LEAD it, what a great country! It's kind-of like a prostitute who's just gotten her PhD or something, lol. Don't take away her great storyline by downplaying her journey. It's practically a miracle! Think about it JPhillips...

Name: HarrisThomas

Comment: co-sign you, TGen, since the historic election, Ameican-styled race hatred has stepped up its game

Name: HarrisThomas

Comment: JCP, you are not derided because your worldview is guided by academic conservative principles and perspectives, you are derided because you include yourself among the purveyors of the real-world American application of the conservative worldview that is steeped in classism and racism

Name: musbdherbs

Comment: JCP..first problem w/your article I see. You introduce us to questions that were asked of you. Not content w/dealing w/the substance of the questions, you chose to go another route. "Well, what they really wanted to know was..." Did they ask you that? Or are you playing the aggrieved victim again? Would you have accepted black people interpreting the statement, "Who does Obama think he is" as really meaning, "he don't know his place." Of course you wouldn't and prolly would've written an article about how black need to stop harping on perceived racial snipes because it continues to hold us back. And Yes, how is it that you can be proud to be an american...a conservative...but not black. Yes, many people would see something wrong with that. I can't imagine a woman, a hispanic, a jew, canadian, african or otherwise, writing an article about a member of "their" group being elected as the first POTUS and them not talk about how being a member of that group makes them proud..if for no other reason to talk about the progress said group has made. Even Conservative Republican Condoleeza Rice was able (and it was a first) to articulate what electing Obama meant to her as a black person. You couldn't do that! Shameful...it really is JCP....outright shameful. G'damn man...you're apiece of work.

Name: MrUnapologetic69

Comment: Man, I don't know why I opened up the link to this BS? It's a complete conundrum to me as to why I keep hoping that one day JCP is going to get it and maybe say something - anything that will let us know he made the damn connection. Whateva. I give up.

Name: dcdouglass01

Comment: "...Black conservatives have always felt at home...." Even as they were toiling in their masters' fields? JCP's idiocy never fails to amaze. And the irony of this piece is his guys, the Republicans, are not even conservatives anymore. Bush spent money like a crazy man, allowed his oil buddies to manipulate oil prices, allowed his (unregulated) Wall Street buddies to package worthless real estate securities and sprinkle them around the world, etc: a Bush economy tilted to the rich that is now showing its true colors (check the stock market over the last couple of months). If you had any guts, JCP, that's what you'd use your forum to speak on: how your boy George and the Republican party let you and your fellow so-called conservatives down. Instead you're coming out in defense of a failed adminstration and a failed party. As far as your disagreements with Obama, don't whine too much. I mean its not like you'll be getting a special invitation to his inaugural to sweat over.

Name: mamacita22

Comment: I was wondering when JCP would end his pity party and address the history that has just been made. Apparently the pity party continues. Poor little black Republican...so misunderstood. Good luck with that, JCP. To the irrelevant pile you go...along with Tavis, Jesse, Julian and 'nem.

Name: HarrisThomas

Comment: off topic, check the maps presented at the following link that show black voting patterns for Obama in 2008 correlated to cotton growing in 1860: http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/330-from-p ickin-cotton-to-pickin-presidents/

Name: MzTee

Comment: Jazzfan...yes, I noticed how JCP didn't state that he's proud to be a black man. Why is that? Is it that JCP fears he'll NOT be seen as a true Republican and/or conservative if he embraces his blackness? I just don't understand his mentality in terms of claiming pride in all other things that he feels is part of his makeup except his racial heritage. That speaks volumes to me. And, I as a proud black woman hope to never experience a post-racial America because there is nothing wrong with folks taking pride in their cultural and ethnic heritage. Part of what makes America so unique is its wonderful mixture of various cultures. What is wrong is the promotion of one racial group as being better than or superior to other racial groups. America has had enough of that throughout its 232 years of existence. And, that notion was soundly rejected on November 4, 2008 when Barack Hussein Obama become the 44th POTUS. TGen...kudos on your post. Very well stated.

Name: queeniebunz

Comment: I don't know why I opened this, either. Maybe for the same reason why I slow down to see how badly a car is mangled when I drive past a car accident. Yeah, I am one of the few who will admit to slowing down a bit. If it's bad, I say to myself, "Dayum! That car is f***ed up! Sorry for you but better you than me!"...well the same applies here, "Dayum but this man's thinking is f***ed up! Sorry for him but better him than me!"...driving right on by...

Name: Calidee

Comment: This article does not surprise me. It's typical JCP. I usually do not agree with his views on the issues but I certainly support his right to hold those views. JCP is a Black man. I have never gotten the impression that he is not a proud Black man. When I read about how he lives his life, loves his wife and takes care of his sons, in my book he is a proud Black man. I think he underestimates how much race matters in this country, but I certainly don't think he doesn't care about Black people. JCP does not need to prove his pride or Blackness any more so than Barack has to prove his. What gets me is that some people who are running around talking about how much they support Obama and how proud they are, but yet they are doing things that are very disruptive to our community. It's one thing to talk about pride it's totally differenct to show your pride.

Name: musbdherbs

Comment: Calidee...there is not a group (ethnic or otherwise) in the United States of America who doesn't expect their members to prove their bone fides. So in this case, blacks are no different. JCP has to "prove" that he's a loyal republican in order to for him to individually benefit from the party. Same thing.

Name: musbdherbs

Comment: I would've used a democrat example but Lieberman kinda disproved that notion. lol

Name: HarrisThomas

Comment: an aspect that ticks me off about Republicans is that they claim to be the party of Lincoln: it's not an accurate claim because the Democratic and Republican parties have evolved in stages to become the parties that many of us know today . . . . . . each party has completed a 180 degree turn since being founded . . . . . . [thumbnail Wikipedia overview] the pro-slavery Democratic party was founded by Andrew Jackson which also embraced strict constructionist interpretation of the Constitution, exercised hands-off (laissez-faire) approach to economics, beat down elites/aristocrats, disbanded the Bank of the United States, hated modernizing programs that would build up industry at the expense of the taxpayer, facilitated Manifest Destiny, expanded white male suffrage and expanded the spoils system (patronage). ______ the Republican party of Lincoln formed in 1854 in opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act that would have allowed the expansion of slavery into Kansas. The Republican activists denounced the act as proof of the power of the Slave Power—the powerful class of southern slaveholders who were conspiring to control the federal government and to spread slavery nationwide ______ In the century after Reconstruction, the white South identified with the pro-segregation Democratic Party. The Democrats' lock on power was so strong, the region was called the Solid South. Before 1948, the southern Democrats saw their party as the defender of the southern way of life [you know, lynching and assorted other reprehensible human rights violations], which included a respect for states' rights [no respect for human rights] and an appreciation for traditional southern values ______ in 1937, by his unexpected plan to “pack” the Supreme Court, Roosevelt alienated many conservative Democrats which resulted in the GOP gaining 75 House seats in 1938. Conservative Democrats, mostly from the South, joined with Republicans to create a conservative coalition, which dominated domestic issues in Congress until 1964 ______

Name: HarrisThomas

Comment: in 1948 Democrats alienated white Southerners in two ways. The Democratic National Convention adopted a strong civil rights plank, leading to a walkout by Southerners (Dixiecrats). Two weeks later President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981 integrating the armed forces ______ in 1958 the Democratic party made dramatic gains in the midterms and seemed to have a permanent lock on Congress, thanks largely to organized labor. Most southern Congressmen were conservative Democrats and they usually worked with conservative Republicans. The result was a Conservative Coalition that blocked practically all liberal domestic legislation from 1937 to the 1970s, except for a brief spell 1964-65 ______ By 1964, the Democratic lock on the South was decisively broken. ______ The degree to which the Southern Democrats had abandoned the party became evident in the 1968 presidential election when the electoral votes of every former Confederate state except Texas went to either Republican Richard Nixon or independent George Wallace, the latter a former Southern Democrat. ______ Integration and the civil rights movement caused enormous controversy in the white South, with many attacking it as a violation of states' rights. When segregation was outlawed by court order and by the Civil Rights acts of 1964 and 1965, a die-hard element resisted integration, led by Democratic governors Orval Faubus of Arkansas, Lester Maddox of Georgia, and, especially George Wallace of Alabama. These populist governors appealed to a less-educated, blue-collar electorate that on economic grounds favored the Democratic Party, but opposed desegregation. After 1965 most Southerners , believing themselves betrayed by the Democratic Party, moved toward the Republican Party ______ The Republican Party adopted a so-called southern strategy which refers to a Republican method of carrying Southern states and conservative Democratic voters in the latter decades of the 20th century and first decade of the 21st century by exploiting racism among white voters and alienating black voters from the party. In addition to its white middle-class base, Republicans attracted strong majorities among evangelical Christians, who prior to the 1980s were largely apolitical. ______ Democrats who supported many conservative policies were instrumental in the election of Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1980. The "Reagan Democrats" were Democrats before the Reagan years, and afterward, but they voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 (and for George H. W. Bush in 1988), producing landslide victories. Reagan Democrats were mostly white ethnics in the Northeast and Midwest who were attracted to Reagan's social conservatism on issues such as abortion, and to his strong foreign policy . . . . . the next time you hear Republican claiming to be from the party of Lincoln, recognize the lie as a bold and brazen myth

Name: oldschoolbrother

Comment: As it is with Shelby Steele, Armstrong Williams, Alan Keyes and other black conservatives, for some reason they feel being black can be ignored due to their taste of politics. But one thing that is never ignored is our skin color. Granted, it should never weigh on you, but being black is a reality and believe me, when you are in the workplace, you cannot ignore that. JCP, whatever ails you, get over it, we got at least 4 years of Barack and he got plenty of pain medicine.

Name: McNasty

Comment: Uh JCP - wipe some of that shat off your nose and pay attention. Conservative rethuglicans made this election about race the saving grace is that Obama had sense enough not to pay too much attention to it or the columns you wrote continually trying to make yourself look more qualified for the position of potus. You spoke of him like he has intelligence but not the kind that you have that leaves you blind to your own ignorance about conservatives and their politics. Too bad you're so busy jocking Obama's shorts that you can't see that the shape we're in is the sole responsibility of the very folks you claim kinship with. We already see you for what you are - you're the only one that's confused but through history - each generation has had its own group of house niccas. I would have only been disappointed had you changed sides of the fence.

Name: McNasty

Comment: The 6th paragraph of this article is jcp personified. To say he feels at home means he's gotten so used to turning a blind eye and accepting racisim and all it's ills he truly believes what he's saying. That's the shame of it - he believes his hype and that goes hand and hand with him thinking himself colorless and accepted by them. JCP and Alan Keyes - you know native africans wouldn't allow these two to keep speaking - they would have long ago given them that hot tire treatment!lol

Name: Lemonhead2

Comment: Round and around we go! JCP, could you please answer the freaking question? I wounder if you could say, "Say it Loud I'm Black and I'm Proud". Black moderate, conservative, whatever how could not feel proud of what Obama accomplished?

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