Question: Why don't more blacks vote for Republicans?

It's because historically, no matter how much Republicans reach out to blacks, their message has not, and will not resonate. Look at what passes for black leadership these days; race baiting hustlers like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, who make their living off the emotional and economical upheavals of their own people.

Blacks are constantly told that America is out to get them in every way, shape and form. Their culture has been poisoned by the notion that they themselves are incapable of taking care of their own needs and goals because they are taught from birth that the odds are stacked against them.

The moment a black person becomes an educated and successful member of society, they are called sell-outs and Uncle Toms. Instead of looking at successful blacks and holding THEM up as role models, they are excoriated, for all things...of acting white.

Every attempt Republicans have made to reach out has been met with criticism and negative press. It's not that it's too difficult (speaking is easy), and they certainly don't avoid it out of laziness(they have tried for years). It's because, in my opinion, it has gotten to the point where the negative press and media presented on such events now supersedes any measurable benefit when looking at how many people actually listened and changed their mind. I hate it, and wish it were different, but it has unfortunately been what has come to pass.

Let's say for the sake of argument that I were running for office and I decided I was going to address a black audience who came to hear my ideas. I give it my best shot and explain how dependence on government programs has taken away their sense of independent identity, and that through hard work, education and self-reliance, they can achieve anything. I stand up for successful blacks and tell them why they should be their role models. I explain how I was raised and how the lessons I learned from the time I was a young man helped shape my views of the world and have aided me greatly in life.

The reaction and the way this event would be covered would unleash the most scathing criticism I would ever receive in my political career. The reaction to my speech would be one of apoplectic shock for the audacity of a white man to address a black audience and even begin to suggest to them how to live their lives, let alone having a conservative point out to them the very reasons behind their never-ending problems. "Easy for you to say!" or "Who the @#$! are you to tell us what to think!?" or "You don't know what it's like to be black in America!!"

The only thing that would be televised and brought up on the news would be this hatchet job of coverage that wouldn't concentrate on what I said or the sincerity of my ideas, but of the reaction I would receive.

Democrats have so successfully sunk their claws into the hearts and minds of blacks that they have created a solid, concrete base of supporters and voters for themselves. Can anyone honestly tell me that if conservatives efforts to reach out to blacks started taking them away from the democrat base that democrats would be star-struck at the love and support coming from conservatives? Hell No, democrats would whip it into high gear and start the process all over of telling blacks what lousy racists we are and how we want to take away their civil rights, and if that kind of bullshit rhetoric is what we have to deal with just so blacks won't think we're trying to re-introduce slavery, forget it. And if appealing to blacks means that we have to moderate our stances on welfare spending or the negative consequences of affirmative action, then to moderate those stances means abandoning the majority of our own concrete base that believes in the opposite. So again, it's not worth it in that case, either.

Consider the following: Republicans are the party that led the vote to abolish slavery. Lincoln was a Republican. Republicans were the majority of the people that voted for the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Ronald Reagan appointed Samuel Pierce as secretary of Housing and Urban Development. George HW Bush made Colin Powell the first black 4-Star General and nominated Clarence Thomas as the first black Supreme Court justice. George W. Bush chose Condoleeza Rice as his Secretary of State, Roderick R. Paige as his Education Secretary, and John McCain pushed Clinton for Colin Powell's son to run the FCC.

Despite a clear historical record of nominating qualified and intelligent blacks into positions of genuine power and policy making, Republicans never get credit for doing so. Rather, woman and minority candidates that serve in Republican administrations are ridiculed and subjected to scathing criticism and endless objections to their loyalties and qualifications for the positions they hold, regardless of their abilities and talents.

The bottom line? Ideas like independence from government, self-reliance and overcoming adversity though hard work are not resonating because blacks by a large margin have been conditioned into a group-think mentality that tells them that none of those things matter. Every election, over 90% of blacks vote democrat, and in light of the entrenchment of their cultural leanings, no amount of outreach can overcome that until the likes of Sharpton and Jackson are dead, buried and forgotten.

That's why. There's your reason. It's ugly, it sucks and I wish to God it was different, but it's the truth.