REAL TALK

This morning I hope to bring you something that maybe you had not thought about concerning what we are hearing and seeing due to the fight to confirm or not confirm Brett Kavanaugh. 

This is a very sensitive subject and my hope to make sure it gets treated like by me today. 

I am not a professional in this area so, these are questions I have that maybe we can gently walk through. 

I want to talk about projection.

I trust we can have a discussion.

It has been since the 1960's have we seen such political upheaval. Some of the issues were different, the war in Viet Nam was front and center in most protest while our involvement in the Middle East hardly gets a mention. Race, of course, is still a protest go-to and now attacks on capitalism are more prevalent. 

So might say that the 1960's propelled us into the life we are living today and thus were effective. Others might say that it was just a brief youthful rebellion and things settled down and what we are seeing today is the same or similar.

No matter the side of the aisle you are on during this circus that is the Kavanaugh hearings what you should be wary of is that we are at this level of discourse in government and as a society. 

Accusations are enough to ruin a person's life.

It is the heinousness of the accusation that matters most NOT the evidence.

The burden of proof has shifted from the one bring accusations to the accused. 

Trust me this is NOT how any of us want to run a country of a judicial system.

You may hate Trump and everything Trump but you need to take a step and look at this particular case. Put yourself on the other side for just a second. 

Would any of us survive the pressure of these attacks?

Well, here in this community we hear that we must elect Black politicians in order to be sure Black communities are represented. I live in a pre-clearance district which is really a "set-aside" for Black communities. The thought is that Black communities need/want Black leadership. What I want to talk about is there any evidence that having Black elected officials have been beneficial in Black communities. 

This is not a conversation that is designed to disparage anyone or to suggest that all Black elected officials are bad. What I hope to get across is the importance of accountability. Black communities IMO do not hold Black politicains accountable to a high enough degree.

Today's political environment is highly charged. It is super easy to set off bombs with just the wrong phrase. It seems people are on a "hair-trigger" anymore. Almost everyone is ready to shout you down at the drop of a hat. I wonder sometimes about the content and the context of most political rancor. I wonder is it ever have much to do with where and how I live. As a conservative Black man, I have long since stopped being a photo-op for politictWhite Republicans that barely knew what part of town I lived much less any of the real concerns of those living in the urban core.

When I was attending meetings and gatherings I would make sure that I was long gone before people started to gather on the stage to take pictures with the guest speaker.

At first, I was of the mindset that it was important that people saw a Black face at Republican meetings. I under the delusion it might encourage more conservative Black people to come out. I was all kinds of wrong and I got tired of being everyone's BBF ( Best Black Friend). So for a long time, I had no ties with tradition outlets for conservative politics other than my work here on BTR. 

I also took a long look at my Democrat contemporry and wonder if they though the same thing I had. For some, our thought patterns on these matters were in synch.

So that brings me to the question should Black people still involve themselves in mainstream politics other than maybe voting.

I am sure you have seen or heard what is going on in Washington concerning the confirmation hearing of Brett Kavanaugh. Tonight I comment of this for the first time. It all seems insane to me on so many levels. but wait... THE PLOT THICKENS!!!

The Democrats seemingly over the top efforts to prevent Kavanaugh from being confirmed may work against them in the November elections. I am thinking that they need a campaign rallying effort and stopping Kavanaugh has been likened to protecting Roe V. Wade and the right to murder children.

Today I will talk about the number of conversations I see being had in a myriad of places by a myriad of people. There is so much conversation going on I have to wonder if anyone is listening? 

Between the failing flailing media sources like FOX, MSNBC, CNN and the soon to be deceased entities like the Washington Post and New York Times combined with all of the conversations on social media from reasonable to rachet, much is being said. How do we sift out what we can use and what we can throw away?

Tied up in the maze of what is acceptable and offensive, I think that racism has taken a hit. What I mean is that the definition has been lost to an extent and is now this broad term to describe words and behavior that people just don't like,

Wow I have to say I have been in this game for a while and I did not see this coming in the way it has. I thought that pulling 2 to 3 percent of Black people into the conservative column every year was going to be the way forward for the foreseeable future. What I missed was the same thing everyone else missed. the rise of the 30-something non-liberal non-democrat Black person! More and more we are seeing that the counterculture amongst some young Black people is away from tradition democrat liberalism.  

In the midst of the "woke" movement something unexpected has happened, more and more young Black people are deciding to think for themselves and speak out about it.

I long ago disconnected Republican and conservative. This is a connection made by the intellectually lazy and media. Over the time I have talked about such things I have learned that sometimes Republicans and conservatives have very little if anything at all in common. 

One of the things that they do have in common is the practice of cannibalism.  Well of the political type. We have talked about the concept of shoot the wounded before. But both groups are ripinge and ready in a Pharoh Fashion they are becoming good at eating their young too.