Did you get your customary direct mail piece, e-mail or telephone call requesting you to contribute to a political campaign yet?
If you haven’t, sit tight, it is on the way!
This is an election year and like every election year, voters and non-voters are beginning to see and hear from people that they never hear from before.
According to campaign literature, Facebook pages and Twitter messages, every candidate is the best candidate, every candidate will serve the people best and every candidate loves the communities and districts that they seek to represent.
Every candidate is also very qualified to hold an elected office and to do big things if the candidate is victorious on Election Day.
I may be going blind in my older years but the way I see it is that the only Black people now qualified to do anything in politics are the “Black” candidates.
Black printers aren’t qualified to print campaign signs or literature, Black pollsters can’t do polls, Black newspapers and broadcasters can’t get political messages to Black readers, viewers or listeners, Black ad agencies can’t place Black media and Black strategic political consultants can’t consult.
How do I come to that conclusion? Well, ask any candidate you want to of African descent that has spent some campaign money and inquire whether or not campaign money has been spent with Black professionals or with non-Black political carpet baggers that snake their way into Black communities and Black politician’s pockets to take all of the money they can from the Hood back to the suburbs.
These political tricksters come into Black political enclaves posing as our friends, posing as our supporters, posing as or benefactors, posing as our helpers and pretending that their advice of “Get rid of all your previous Black friends and political professionals and give me all of your campaign dollars.” is the best strategy to win.
How sick can you be?
The truth is that many African Americans are up to here with the lies and false promises of almost all politicians and their beloved blue-eyed consultants.
What is good for the white goose is good for the Black gander. We want what others want. We want political respect and we want political job and contract opportunities.
If you don’t remember anything about this column, remember this, if your favorite candidate does more to help, empower and pay the white men and women he has hired to provide campaign services, the candidate is going to do more for those same people once he gets into office. If they don’t spend money with your newspaper, print shop, sign shop, catering business or ad agency now, they won’t patronize your business in the future.
By Lucius Gantt
There are some good points here. Far too often, people research a political candidate, but not the people who are running his campaign or producing his campaign materials. Regardless of your political philosophy, you should always keep in mind that a candidate is going to help the people who helped him if he gets elected to office!