I don't want there to be any misunderstanding. Black people hate what Alan Keyes stands for.
I'm sure that some people like the guy, there are some useless fools who call themselves Republican. who do, but to most black people in America, he is simply a traitor. He betrays the community, the culture, everything good about being black.
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Now, I know being black isn't easy, and some people, unfortunately, are driven crazy. I mean did Keyes try to lighten his skin? Bathe in milk? Why did he have to try so hard to adapt the way of his masters.
It isn't even that he's a conservative. There are lot of people who are black and conservative, at least socially. But Keyes crossed over and decided to take stands which would hurt black people, to prove he wasn't like us. He wanted to be a special negro, one white people would like, would let run something.
But of course, they would no more do that than let him marry their daughters.
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People need to understand that black conservatives are our shame, our embarassment. People driven mad to assimiliate at ANY cost, their soul, their dignity, common sense.
Look at the respect people like Tom Joyner, Tavis Smiley and even Oprah gets. They don't debase themselves for the approval of white people. They have character and dignity. Look at the gollum which is Alan Keyes and you see something entirely different, sadder, but different.
Unsurprisingly, what Steve said here (of which the above is only the briefest excerpt) gets to the very heart of the matter.
Sprinting into the lead of the GOP Crazy Olympics, it's Alan Keys:
"Obama is a radical communist and I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it is coming true.... He is going to destroy this country and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist....
"The man is an abomination.... That is a man with such a seared conscience, I can't even understand why anyone in their right mind would consider him worthy of political support....
"[He is a ]usurper occupying the office without constitutional warrant."
"He has refused to provide proof that he is in fact a natural-born citizen....
"Refused to provide proof" as in posted it on the Internet. Obama's "Fight the Smears" website, as of last June:
Keyes:
I'm not even sure he is president of the United States."
Heck, he's not even sure what year it is. Or where he lives. He's been under 72-hour observation longer than anyone else in history.
Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton was endorsed Saturday by retired Gen. Wesley Clark, who sought the party's nomination in 2004 and whose sterling military credentials could bolster her bid to be the first female commander in chief.
Clark, the former supreme allied commander of NATO, praised the New York senator as ''a remarkable person'' with the skills and experience to be president.
''She will be a great leader for the United States of America and a great commander in chief for the men and women in uniform,'' Clark told reporters in a conference call with the former first lady.
Definitely a big pickup for Clinton. Makes me wonder if a Clinton-Clark ticket is a possibility, even if that would be a little Arkansas heavy.
After two previous runs for U.S. president, former Reagan diplomat Alan Keyes has announced he's again seeking the White House in the 2008 election, and he'll take part in Monday night's Republican presidential debate here.
Keyes told syndicated radio host Janet Parshall he's "unmoved" by the lack of moral courage shown by the other candidates, among whom he sees no standout who articulates the "key kernel of truth that must, with courage, be presented to our people."
Newt Gingrich is moving closer to a presidential nomination bid in a severely divided Republican Party.
"I will decide based on whether I have about $30 million in committed campaign contributions and whether I think it is possible to run a campaign based on ideas rather than 30-second sound bites," the former House speaker told The Washington Times yesterday.
I bet I could beat Newt Gingrich in a Presidential campaign, and I am not even old enough to run. The country would pass a constitutional amendment allowing someone else to become President before it would elect Gingrich. Go Newt, go!
