Project Logic Ga

For years, I want to hear a conservative congressional candidate who came from our community and who would just stand at a podium and bring it.  Flat bring it…straight bring it…make it plain.  I respect conservative leaders who look like me but speak the traditional conservative viewpoint.  For example, J.C. Watts was a good congressman who helped people understand that he was not congressman for Black people but a congressman who was Black. The brother came from a district in Oklahoma with few Blacks so that is how that should have been and the same can be said for a several Black GOP congressional candidates around the nation.

But, we are in Georgia and I want a candidate here who embraces the unique conservative nature we have here  (Yes, many Black voters in the South are conservative in their daily lives.)  One who will get someone “told” but with genuine concern for the state’s future rather than animosity based on our past.  Basically, we need a sista with credentials who understands our journey since arriving in Savannah in the mid 1750s in the hulls of ships.

Think about it like this: we need someone who can do politically what M.C. Lyte does in hip hop because the messenger needs to “commandeer the ear” of those who can’t hear.  I have always like the way Lyte and LL Cool J carried themselves and respect their personal and professional growth over the years.  One of LL’s famous lyrics applies to the state of Black conservatism in the South, “I said, “No need to rehearse,” then I made my approach..said, you got a good team, girl, but you need a new coach.”

This LL line sums it up for me.  The GOP in the South could makes some real connections in our community with a new coach.  A coach with the smooth intelligence of M.C. Lyte, LL Cool J, Barrack Obama, and Sanford Bishop.  See, the first rule of coaching is learn from the other guys success.  Where can they find such a coach?  The same place where the slaves arrived and strangely, the coach resembles Lyte and is equally stern.  Of course, they will go with a “traditional” coach and follow the same old playbook.       

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzf6Lpb-5Qg

LL -The Do Wop