The Patriot Post® · It's Time for Black Voters to Shake Things Up

Cal Thomas: “Given the failure and cost of [poverty] programs and the blaming of racism as the main reason too many African-Americans remain mired in poverty, in prison and without fathers in the home, why do more than 90 percent remain loyal to a political party that has robbed them of hope? The answer must be in the voices they listen to, including the voices of teachers in failing public schools that Democrats won’t let them escape from, students in those schools who bad-mouth successful students for ‘acting white,’ preachers who preach of a political salvation that never seems to arrive, instead of genuine salvation that can transform a life by changing the way one thinks, and politicians who pretend to be the friends of African-Americans on Election Day, only to abandon them the very next day. When the last votes are counted in this election, many African-Americans who vote for Democrats will likely not find their lives improved by the crafty politicians who used racial scare tactics to court them and get them to the polls. On Nov. 5, the race deck will still be stacked against them. Maybe they should try the other party just to shake things up.”