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Also by Earl Ofari Hutchinson:

The Ethnic Presidency, February 2008
Paperback
The Emerging Black GOP Majority, July 2006
Hardcover

The Emerging Black GOP Majority
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

This is a no holds barred book that will shatter myths about black liberalism, the Democrats and blacks, makes a deep probe of black historical ties to the Republican Party, and tells why many blacks are and have always been black and conservative.

Middle Passage Press
July 2006
On Sale: July 19, 2006
204 pages
ISBN: 1881032191
EAN: 9781881032199
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Political

Included are comments about why Clarence Thomas, Condoleezza Rice, and Colin Powell are not aberrations., why Bush’s blacks are the Democrats worst nightmare, and why the GOP wants and needs blacks to keep winning and winning big. The book examines the explosion of the black evangelicals as a potent political force, reveals the great untold story of campaign 2004 of how blacks helped dump Bush back into the White House.

In July 2004, President Bush thundered to the throng of delegates at the National Urban League’s annual convention in Detroit, "What have the Democrats done for you." It was bold, audacious and touched a raw nerve. The mostly black, and overwhelmingly Democratic, crowd erupted in spontaneous applause. The question was not a question but a challenge to black America.

Top Democrats and civil rights leaders sneered at Bush’s political dig. At first glance their sneers seemed justified. There’s never been a Republican in the Congressional Black Caucus. Black Republican congressman refused to join. Nearly all black elected state and local officials are Democrats. The top civil rights leaders have always been Democrats.

That seemed to be changing. Bush bumped up his black support in 2004 by several percentage points nationally over 2000. That increase helped put him over the top in the battleground state of Ohio. Bush and the GOP leaders believed that bigger and better things lay ahead. They had good reason to think that. During the past century, the GOP has had a tortured, conflicted, and contradictory, but deep and profound relationship with black America. In that century, the GOP pandered to white racists, but proclaimed itself the party of Lincoln, liberty, justice and civil rights. GOP presidents played the race card, and used quotas to make black appointments, but denounced quotas and championed a color-blind society. GOP presidents used racial code-speak, but railed against racism.

The GOP on the big ticket public policy issues opposed Great Society programs, welfare, and government entitlements, but backed anti-lynching and civil rights laws, expanded government programs, welfare, and entitlement programs.

The dangling question in 2006 as it will be in the 2008 presidential election is can the GOP could overcome its legacy of racial contention and convince blacks that it offered more to black America than the Democratic Party. One thing is certain the historical love hate relationship between the GOP and blacks presents profound possibilities and even more profound dilemmas for the GOP.

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