it was the left who proffered America’s first half-black president, any criticism of him is immediately labeled racist. An intriguing concept, when you consider that the Left got what they wanted, yet America has worsened racially…and in about every other way.
Sexy Brilliance offers real solutions for Republicans and Conservatives, while also being a self-help reference for recovering Liberals. Sexy Brilliance enhances what my book The BIG Black Lie did: Empower Conservatives[1] to embrace their political identity.
Will Republicans seize the day and capitalize on the failures of the Obama administration? Will Republicans continue to ride the momentum of the Tea Party movement and the November 2010 election and find their way back? Will Republicans embrace the mantra of the grass roots, represent the people, and more importantly follow the Constitution? Will Republicans get serious about attracting youth and minorities?
What will the Tea Party movement look like in the near future? Will the Tea Party morph? Will a leader emerge or perhaps leaders? Or will the Left continue to win the narrative?
Sexy Brilliance will make you laugh at politicians on the Left, but it skewers the Right where appropriate. Parts of the book will have you rolling on the floor with laughter at the insanity of our elected leaders, but the book never forgets to educate.
I hope you enjoy my take on what politicians serve up routinely, as well as the lunacy that brought America Sexy Brilliance.
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[1] It just needs to empower a lot more Conservatives, say 250,000?
The Worst Kind of Criminal
Paul is an acquaintance of mine and a native of Chicago—the South Side of Chicago; where Bad Bad Leroy Brown got into a ruckus and ended up looking like a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone. That was the South Side back in the ‘70’s. It’s much worse now.
I enjoy my conversations with Paul. He lives a life that I could have lived as I discussed in my first book. God saw to it that I avoided that life. Paul was not as fortunate, however. The streets got him, and eventually so did the criminal justice system.
Paul reminds me of my Uncle Ray who did time in the joint as well. I have to admit I have a fascination with the lives Paul and my Uncle Ray led. Make no mistake about it, I’m happy I avoided the penitentiary; but there are very few black kids who don’t have some level of intimacy with prison; too many second-hand and way too many more first-hand. That closeness to prison life may be part of the allure for young black men.
Paul brings to our talks both street wisdom and the wisdom that comes with Paul having made lots of mistakes. It’s difficult to describe, but he brings a rawness that makes our talks fresh every time.
One day Paul and I were discussing his conversion from being a lifelong Democrat to becoming an Independent, and he said to me,
“You know Kev, when I was in the joint, I had a cellie[1] who was a serial rapist. The dude told me that he was the worst kind of criminal, because he would rape a woman, and then convince her that it was her fault.”
I said to Paul, “I believe the worst kind of criminal is the guy who rapes a woman, and makes her believe that somebody else did it.”
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It’s not whether you win or lose; it’s where you place the blame.
I won’t belabor the point that slavery was the beginning of black victimization[2], because that’s obvious. For almost a century Democrats raped blacks literally and figuratively.
However, there was a time around the 1950’s when the Democrats were losing the battle to control black people. Black people were building and growing businesses. We had strong families, and education and character were stressed.
Democrats did all they could to demoralize blacks, with all sorts of onerous rules and laws, even corralling black people into certain urban areas, in an attempt to demoralize us. It didn’t work. Back then, black people were strong of body and mind, as fit as Navy SEALs. We relied on our belief in God, and that right would conquer might. We believed in excellence.
Democrats found out that the black “cities within cities” were thriving.[3] Business was booming, as blacks had to be self-sufficient. Some people say this was the unexpected benefit of Jim Crow.
Black kids today might find it hard to believe that there was a time when blacks owned the businesses in the neighborhoods where we lived, which at the time were called “the black side of town.” Today the black sides of towns are entire cities like Detroit, Compton, Philadelphia, and Newark.[4]
This independence that was happening in the black community had to be derailed. The policies were in place, like welfare, and so on, however that was not enough. Blacks needed more dependence on government, to see government as their best, if not only alternative to a good life. All that was left for the Democrats to acquire was a boogeyman.
Around the 1960’s, Democrats established the profile of the boogeyman. He was that guy who was always trying to help black people by interfering with Democrat policies. Republicans were the guys shooting the rope with which Democrats were trying to hang black people.
“Hey, whatcha doin’ shootin’ at that Nigra man,” Democrats exclaimed. “You OK boy? This hangin’ thing we was about to do to you, well that was just bidness; but that Republican, well he was showly tryin’ to shoot you, and for no reason!”
There you had it. The Goldwater Effect[5] Democrats began pointing the finger at Republicans as the perpetrators of all past heinous crimes against blacks, and they set the stage for the future demonization of Republicans and Conservatives of today.
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It took almost a century for Democrats to get all their ducks in a row. It began with Democrats deconstructing Reconstruction.[6] I don’t think most people really understand Reconstruction and its impact on the white community, past and present. You read that right, I did say that Reconstruction had a major impact on whites.
Imagine a group of people who had been treated like animals for decades finally getting a seat at the table. Black people literally went from the fields as slaves to Congress in a few short years. There were 21 black congressmen and two senators during the Reconstruction era—all were Republicans. Can you even imagine the discipline that people who were slaves brought to the white community?
And like a man being released from prison because of new DNA evidence, blacks had little animosity about slavery. They were just glad to experience freedom. Because of strong belief systems, black had toughened in all those years of adversity, discipline taught by slavery. Long days with no pay, but actually accomplishing something.
If Reconstruction had lasted longer[7] and the work ethic of blacks had been allowed to permeate Congress, just imagine what the production of Congress would be today. We certainly wouldn’t have a group of people who believe they deserve salaries that make them “rich”, along with multiple paid vacations, fat pensions, limos, taxpayer funded private jets, federally funded staffers,[8] and war chests that allow them to repeat the process.
Blacks were in Congress to teach whites what it was like to do an honest day’s
