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Last week, Joyce Jones, a columnist for BET.com wrote an article titled, “The Loneliness of the Black Republican: What attracts young African-Americans to the GOP?”  Although the article was off-base on so many points – No I won’t waste my time listing them here – it got me reflecting on this younger generation of Black Republicans.

Undoubtedly, young Blacks are attracted to the GOP brand more than older Blacks. If Jones could have tapped into that phenomenon, it could have been an…

October 9, 2013

By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist

As it is written, “there is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” - Proverbs 14:12

What an appropriate statement to describe the continued denigration of the moral fabric of American society. I am fed up with everyone trying to be accommodating of homosexuals when they refuse to reciprocate towards those who disagree with them.

Let me explain.

Most of you probably…

Within the Republican Party, there is what I call this mystery of the Black conservative.  Let me explain.

Over the years, I have had this conversation with people from the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Ollie North, Mike Huckabee and Haley Barbour, etc. They would argue that there was this growing trend of “conservatism” within the Black community.  I told them all categorically that this was bull.

Blacks have always been conservative or, more accurately,…

By Raynard Jackson, 8/27/13 ~

  Earlier this week, the Republican National Committee (RNC) and its Chairman, Reince Priebus hosted a great 50^th anniversary commemoration of the March on Washington.  It was truly wonderful to see the best of what America stands for.  In attendance were Blacks, Whites, Hispanics, Asians, Democrats, Republicans, Independents, males and females.  In other words, it was America.

As I sat there and listened to the various speakers during…

When I read the recently released report by The College Republican National Committee (CRNC), titled, "Grand Old Party for a Brand New Generation," I immediately thought of two cartoons: the Flintstones and the Jetsons.

The Flintstones was an animated, prime-time TV show that debuted in 1960. It was a cartoon about a working class family in the Stone Age. The Jetsons was a cartoon that debuted in 1962. The show was about a futuristic family who lived 100 years in the future…