The Frederick Douglass Foundation will hold its second annual Leadership Summit from March 18 through March 20 at The Washington Marriott at the Metro Center in Washington DC. Speakers will include RNC Chairman Michael Steele, Congressman Mike Pence, and many more.

To all the Democrats out there that think Black Republicans are ” fighting to be accepted” by our party, please stop making claims that you cannot prove.

Governor Palin is an ethnic escapist dream where simple rural girls best slick urban intellectuals.

Angela McGlowan today held a news conference in Oxford, Miss. to formally announce that she’s seeking the Republican nomination for Congress. The GOP is hoping to unseat Rep. Travis Childers (D-Miss.), who has held Mississippi’s 1st Congressional District seat since mid-2008.

There was a time in my life when I believed there was this system purposefully set up to keep Black people subordinated. Somehow, in the midst of that phase, I naively internalized that liberals were the only ones who acknowledged the proverbial “system”, and did everything in their power to change it. Then I found out about how liberal policies negatively impacted the Black Family. Liberals instantly became the object of my disdain.

So, naturally, if liberals were so “evil” the only place left for me to go was the other side, right?

To the Black media, I say, give our people the means by which we can educate ourselves on all of the issues. From every perspective. Provide fair coverage to Democratic AND Republican candidates. Maybe the Republicans won’t convince African-Americans to vote for them. Maybe they will. But at the end of the day, our people deserve the right to make their own choice.

One of the greatest shows in all of sitcom history is probably “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”. Remember Carlton Banks (played by Alfonso Rebiero)? He was the quintessential Black Republican! He was rich, out of touch with his consciousness, and surrounded by white people who loved to sing Tom Jones.

If you want to get a reaction out of a largely black audience, tell them you’re a black Republican. Black members of the GOP are the butt of jokes from comedians, in TV shows and in movies. A member of al-Qaeda probably would give a black Republican a run for his money in terms of who is more disliked in the black community. The sense of being a turncoat against your race is pervasive.

As this election season hits high gear new faces are emerging to take there place in the Republican Party. One such person is former NFL Star Damon Dunn. Born in 1976 in Arlington, Texas to a 16-year old single mother, Damon Dunn grew up in dire poverty; living in a three-bedroom trailer with ten people. Damon grew up hunting and fishing as means to provide food, and wore Salvation Army clothes. From these humble beginnings, Damon learned the value – and the rewards of hard work, which he has demonstrated throughout his life.

James Farmer Jr. is, perhaps, most well-known as the founder of The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) whose tactics were the backbone of The Civil Rights Movement. Having been influenced by the passive, non-violent resistance techniques of Mohandas K. Gandhi of India, Farmer imparted the principles of non-violent resistance to his disciples drilling into them the error of using aggression in The Civil Rights Movement

By Nadra Enzi
Black Republicans would do well to distance themselves from the popular view, rightly and otherwise, that they are chocolate-covered clones of Pat Buchanan, a commentator routinely thought to be THE “racist White male Republican” in many Black and progressive circles.
Conservative and right of center thought isn’t gross copycatting of reactionary rhetoric.
One major contributor to this perception is the relative silence of the Black GOP on racial justice issues or, in some eyes, its vocal support of causes unpopular with the Black establishment, i.e ritual opposition to affirmative action and other sacred cows of the Left.
One ironic topic where …

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By Richard Ivory
 Some interesting reading I happened to stumble upon while glancing the Wall Street Journals Online edition. Karl Rove the former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President Bush has an interesting article in which he actually mentions the number of black Republicans who voted this year for Barrack Obama. I find this interesting given that the media and the GOP assume that there only “5″ of us. Of course, our numbers are not as high as the Democrats but there hidden within the pages of this article Mr. Rove mentions rather casually “811,000 votes came from …

Race has thrust its way back on to the national scene as a topic of dialogue in light of recent events in the campaign. I, for one, think some of the statements being made about Senator Obama with a wink-and-nod give me pause for the ugly underbelly of American politics they appeal to.