Send in the Black Conservatives

I guess you can point to Obama for this new resurgence in black conservatives running for office.

Among the many reverberations of President Obama’s election, here is one he probably never anticipated: at least 32 African-Americans are running for Congress this year as Republicans, the biggest surge since Reconstruction, according to party officials.

I think one thing the GOP should do is point to the fact that they have been champions of equal rights and that the Democrats were the party of the bigots in the South. It was Democratic filibusters that kept the Equal Rights Amendment from being voted on. Also it was the Republicans who started many of the traditionally black colleges. I also think that the GOP should push the fact that black people are not any better off financially after supporting the Democrats for 30 years.