Shifting Focus
It's rough being a Black Conservative. I experience many moments of cognitive dissonance. I'm constantly second guessing myself. What do I believe? What do I really believe? How do people define me? How do I really define myself? Am I catering my message for my audience? Am I just regurgitating Conservative Republican talking points? Is my 'black and conscious' side coming out enough in my writings?The other evening, I spoke with my buddy Akindele Akinyemi a fellow Urban Conservative who is 'down for the right cause' and also an educator-like myself. We spoke at length about what Black Conservatives can do, but haven't been doing to help the Black Community release themselves from the psychological dependence on Democrat's and government.
So, I'm shifting gears a little bit. I am still going to be the same sardonic Afroconservative that you all have grown accustomed to reading. However, I am going to be more solution-focused as opposed to criticizing and impugning members of the left all the time (they deserve it-I know!
). I don't want to be so reactionary. It's time for some public policy proposals from the Nappy Head Republican! Most of you who read this blog regularly already agree with me, but I want more Black people who don't think they agree with me to be able to come and read my viewpoints-without me coming across in a bellicose manner. The crazy thing is, part of me likes the caustic, brash tone of my writings (Sssh! Don't tell anyone!).
Realistically speaking, that's not going to win more people like me over to the 'right' side of things. It's just 'entertainment' for people who already agree with me. Black people need to hear the conservative message from someone who looks like them and truly understands the plight of being a Black American. I'm not complaining about a 'system' or the proverbial 'man', but if you don't look like me, there's somethings you just won't understand (and vice versa, of course).
Thanks for reading. I really appreciate you all. Some of you come everyday-even when I don't post for two weeks!!! Ugh! I'm working on being more consistent too!! Outside of this blog, I'm a singer, a pianist, a graduate student, a fulltime counselor, and The one true God's daughter. No excuses. I know. I'll do better!
We won't always agree, but you'll always get honesty from the Afroconservative.
God bless,
Vanessa
P.S. I am working on my first (of many) books. Writing a book requires resources. I know times are hard, but if you can, please donate a few dollars. I'm working on finding an agent also. So if you know an agent, or a publisher who would be interested in my book please email me (vanessa@afroconservative.com). The book will be about liberals and their hand in the destruction of the Black Family. Surprised??? lol
Thanks in advance. 
totally love your idea! i'm one of those who likes what you write no matter what but I've been getting to the point of being apathetic because i'm just tired of ranting and nobody listening. so what I need to do is come up with public policy ideas that are conservative based. conservatives need to be more innovative anyway
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Tried to donate, but nothing happens when you click the Donate button. Can you get that fixed?
As far as what you can do, one very important thing is to identify conservative blacks willing to run for political office. There are a few now, but we need many, many more.
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Hi I applaud you for this change of direction from the typical mean spirited hate speech that republicans like limbaugh are known for.This was the one thing that always turned me and most blacks off from the republican party is they claim to be a party for God.But would Jesus approve of the hate talk and derision that you hear on the republican noise radio.Just go visit some of these conservative blogs and see the hate being spewed.Anyways good luck and maybe show true christian love maybe the races will abandon the ship.
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Here is the comment I left at SolidPrinciples.com regarding Craig and AfroConservative’s Vanessa on their outstanding podcast. Please help us spread the word on why black conservative’s best interests are served by a rebuilt and much more conservative Republican Party!
~~John Cronin~~
http://www.solidprinciples.com/blog/?p=1811
1. john says:
October 21, 2009 at 7:09 am (Edit)
I believe we have just discovered a future Republican superstar. This podcast performance by Vanessa from the AFROCONSERVATIVE blogsite is just outstanding.
Vanessa reminds me of a younger, female version of Dr. Thomas Sowell. So well read, so much a student of history, so much insight.
Craig and Vanessa, major kudos for a job well done. We have got to get this podcast widely distributed, so that these “conservative principles” reach as many liberals as possible and start the process of the re-examination of the leftist dogmas that have proved to be so ruinous to this country.
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I want to thank my friend for sending me to this website. I am White, but I have been talking my head off to my Black friends, and my Black clients. I try to appeal to them as fellow Christians, and fellow Americans, and I tell them that they are Conservatives, they are just buying the poverty pimps b.s., and holding themselves down. If poor people, and downtrodden, incompetent Blacks learned that they did not have to be downtrodden, or that they weren't incompetent, what job would the liberal whackadoos have? Of what purpose would they serve? I am going to send my friends and my clients who are Black (and my White friends, too), to this website and the other Conservative Black Blogs I have been visiting. Finding these websites only confirms what I already knew, but became solid in November. My need to reach out to the Black population and focus them on their Conservative principles became stronger this past November. I wanted to scream that it was oke to want a Black president, but there are too many decent, Conservative, intelligent Black men and women to settle for this guy. Black men who share your values and principles and concerns. In PA. I voted for Lynn Swann, a Black Republican. I asked many of my Black friends and clients who they voted for, and they mainly voted for Rendell, a sneak, filthy creep, and slimey pig. He tried to take Veterans Day away from the city when he was Mayor. He is disgusting. I have stories galore about his sliminess. I asked why they would vote for this crud when a decent Black man was running. They did not even know he was running. You want to have Blacks in government, great, go for it, but look at who you are supporting, and go for character. I recommend many Black authors for them to read, but I don't think they hear me. I don't know if it is because I am White and they think I don't understand anything or what the problem is, but, knowing where to challenge them and send them and let them hear Conservative Blacks talking, maybe then they will listen. Don't give up and don't stop spreading the Conservative word.
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Hi, Vanessa...I've been thinking...perhaps "liberal" is the wrong word for conservatives to be using in describing our true opponents. "Liberals" actually seem to fall nowadays into the slot marked "moderates". The ones from the Saul Alinsky school of thought, which is where the more radical elements of the left seem to germinate from, are better labeled "progressives", which is what they are calling themselves these days; but anyone familiar with the rhetoric of Lenin, and the old Soviet Union, will instantly recognize the word as a euphemism for revolutionary Marxists. Alinskyites, not being content (or really believing in) the Marxist dialectic, which states that capitalism will fall under its own corrupt weight, instead began to systematically undermine capitalism and its underpinnings. How? By the creation of an ever-growing dependent underclass, using class warfare, human nature, and language which appealed to the noble instincts in us all (War on Poverty, etc) and made those opposed to such language and programs seem cruel and racist, even if their opposition was based on nothing more than the recognition that these ideas were basically unsustainable, and had failed everywhere they had been tried. It is time for progressives to come out of the closet, and announce themselves for whom and what they truly are---Socialists/Communists.
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