Maggie's Farm

Local Control is a growing issue among urban blacks. They're not going to be Tea Partiers anytime soon, because of the effective well-poisoning by MSM and the Democrats (but I repeat myself). Alliances, coalitions, and common cause along these lines may be possible, however, especially around single issues - schools, for example - in defined locations.

For cultural reasons - which I confess I only partly understand - African-Americans tend to make political alliances in chunks rather than in ones and twos. Whole neighborhoods are more likely to adopt a position on an issue than a few each from many neighborhoods. (Rural NewEnglanders are likely on the opposite end of that scale.) So don't be discouraged about convincing them over the long haul just because the short-term response hasn't been encouraging. The AA community learned to stick together because they believed they were otherwise powerless and without influence. That some black people had some clout struck them as a better deal than none of them having any. As they do not have significant power among progressive elites, however much that fact is papered over, that alliance is unstable.