The television screens shimmer, their speakers echoing with the same truisms they apply to the Republicans presidential year after presidential year. All three themes are misleading and essentially wrong. Most politically active blacks favor big government and entitlements. They choose to vote Democratic. The Republican Party favors limited government and devolution of government power.
Racial prejudice has little to do with the Republican convention.
Libertarian-conservative blacks become Republicans. In fact, a growing number of Americans have become Republicans since the 1980s as the Democrats decline. As for the Democrats' charge that Republicans are extremist, the journalists should be more critical. Since the early 1980s the Republican Party has increasingly gained the electorate's trust. Throughout the 1990s it gained control of Congress, most governor's mansions and many state legislatures.