The Rocky Mountain Black Conservatives exists to serve persons of color in the great states of the western USA. We believe:
1. The fact that 90% of black Americans participate in our political system in a very one-sided manner is detrimental to our communities, families and standing as citizens.
2. Political candidates and parties ought to earn our votes through public debate on their stances on policies, not simply as a result of the letter appearing after their names on a ballot.
3. Persons of color in the United States hold many conservative values but live in fear of being stigmatized. As a result we often vote in a manner that is contrary to our interests and the interests of our communities. The Rocky Mountain Black Conservatives brings together blacks and Latinos and helps spread the word that there is nothing wrong with being colored and conservative. Just like there’s nothing wrong with being colored and liberal. We, like all other people groups, are individuals.
4. Neither political party has a lock on virtue or on vice. Party affiliation is not nearly as important as values and personal integrity.
5. Predominantly minority communities are better served by persons and legislation that enables them to build from within. The continuing string of handouts from the federal government are little more than band aids that do not address the root wound. We need to (re)build our communities from the inside, out. No the outside in.
6. It is time the invisible wall of separation between people of color and conservative candidates, party(s) and elected officials be torn down! We only harm ourselves by refusing to engage in discussion with a political entity because we may disagree on specific policies or issues. Even contentious communication is far better than no communication at all.
7. God and country matter. The church has traditionally played a central role in our communities, and still should. Christian/biblical principles of living build a society; secular/humanist ones tear it down.
May GOD bless you with success that surpasses your expectations. “We the people of the United States” NEED you to succeed!!!! Thank you @allenwest for the info.
Thank you so much for being a balanced voice in the midst of this chaos. I am not a person of color but am so grateful to be included in this group, your emails give me hope.
Derrick,
Just received your “Jim Crow” newsletter and it was good timing because I was going to write about it.
Your newsletter wasn’t really enough to turn into an article, but I’m giving you a shout out along with links to your work on my site and a link to your RMBC page.
I hope that’s cool with you.
Thank you for today’s article on Chicago. I have been following RMBC for quite some time as well as Kevin Jackson on The Black Sphere. I appreciate all that you folks are doing.
As a White Christian Male I am pretty much the target for the woke culture. And no matter how many facts I present or ways I try to help people, I cannot help these people. I find todays discourse in America sad and getting worse. At 52, I do not see this ending well.
I am knee deep in “Fault Lines” by Voddie Bauchum and am truly starting to realize how deep these problems are and the level of a cult the anti-racist community really is. My black niece has disowned our family over this and many others are suffering. I pray things will change.
Derrick – your comments at the C.S. public school board meeting were spot-on and inspiring. You are every bit of a sensible, thoughtful American and patriot as I strive to be. Your family and community are lucky to have you as a thought leader. These are strange times in our American journey. Keep speaking, please.
Mr Wilburn , your speech on CRT was powerful and brave . I applaud you, sir . As intelligent adults, living in a country that strives to do better and usually does, does not mean anyone is trying to minimize the heinous treatment your ancestors went through. That is something we could all learn from without judging people today. You are awesome.
We are The Guardians of RE4 in weld county and would love to have you come speak with our group, as well as a few other groups that we would invite. I had the pleasure to to see and hear you at a Perspectives 101 meeting and you were awesome I am in the middle of my Alienated America book you suggested and would Love for you to come to Windsor Colorado Weld County!!! What does it take to get you here?? $$$ Nice dinner with my husband and I ? Please let us know ❤️
Hi! I receive your emails, which I enjoy and learn from. I am a volunteer for Republicans in Virginia, where we have a highly competitive Governor’s race that will be decided in November. We have a fantastic BLACK, CONSERVATIVE WOMAN, Winsome Sears, running for Ltn. Governor. She is fearless! She needs help (money). Can you please share info about her with your members and ask them to donate to her campaign? Time is of the essence as early voting begins Sept. 17. Thank you!
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Yesterday I saw your school board clip on the Dr. Phil show yesterday. Then I heard you speak.
My first reaction was anger. How could a Black man think like this? I think I heard you state that you have been accepted everywhere you went and you had not experienced racism.
While I agree that people should work, they must have an education to get good jobs. There are many blacks that don’t come from a family back ground that stress higher education, they stress survival.
I think you miss that. That is a part of Black History. That is a part of our history that you should know as well as others.
I don’t know if you were born and raised in Colorado Springs, but still the Black population there is very small as it is throughout Colorado.
It is important to know where you came from to know where you are going and how you can bring others along with you IF you are on the right path.
I was born in Denver in 1943. I know racism and discrimination.
Do you know any of Colorado Black History?
Do you know who the first Black Bus Driver was in Denver? He paved the way for other Blacks to get jobs with the then Denver Tramway. It was my father and I am proud of him. He has been left out of our Black Story.
In 1972 I was a part of the Hogue dissent. Three Black women sued the city of Denver because they refused to hire Black women. As a result the department had to hire us as well as more Blacks and Hispanics. I was the 2nd Black female and the 1st Black female Detective on the Department.
It took a lot of courage for my father and me to pave away for other Blacks. Unlike you we could not go anywhere and be accepted.
I think you have forgotten who you are as a Black person. I think that you have forgotten what your grandparents and your great grandparents went through so that you can get the education that you have.
From watching you, I think you are married to a White woman and feel that you have “ARRIVED” and that is the reason that you feel that you are accepted everywhere you go.
It is that syndrome of Black men with White wives and they discriminate against Black women and Black men that don’t have White wives.
Being conservative in your thinking is one thing. I can appreciate that because I am conservative in some of my views. It quite another to be racists against your own people.
Maybe you should visit the rural south and some of the impoverished areas of the country.
I think you need a real eye opener.
I will pray for you because you don’t know your Black history.
I/we get a lot of racist, ignorant, bigoted letters, (all from leftists, btw), most of which I allow to be posted & to exist on their own merit. But this letter of yours is so ignorant, so racist, so full of bigoted views that it must be responded to for FEW of the hateful letters we get rise to this level. As I go thru your awful letter please note all of the backwards-looking, past tense words (words ending with “ed”), references and discussion of the past. (Which basically is your entire screed.)
So there is a prescribed way that Blacks are supposed to speak & think or not speak & think? We are not allowed any individuality. We must all think a certain way, or you get ‘angry’ with us. This is about the most bigoted, racist thing ever typed. I get angry with people who insist we live inside their preconceived boxes about what Blacks are supposed to be like. I’ve got news for you – we Blacks can be conservative or liberal, we can be doctors or drug dealers, sailors or skateboarders, priests or panhandlers. Stop placing us into boxes. Contrary to what racists like you believe, there are no requirements for how we must think based on our skin color.
So Black history is families that do not stress higher education. Ok, fine …that’s the problem! We should stress education. If that’s our history, good, let’s let it remain history and change it! My parents stressed higher education & my sister and I earned degrees. I stress it and now my children are earning them as well. Let that history go and embrace a new paradigm today.
I was not born and raised in Colorado. You are right, the Black population here is small. Meaning you have it exactly backwards. If White-against-Black racism in America is so bad then we Blacks who live places like Colorado, where there is a higher % White population, should experience MORE racism. But we don’t.
Agreed. Which is why we run the People of Color Capitol Interns program, to help bring others along.
Left out by whom? Who do you blame for this? All of Denver is run by leftists. The school system, the city gov, the county gov,…everything. So if your father has been left out – who has done the leaving?
Yesterday, yesterday, yesterday. Good for you, good for your father and thank God for you both. But you are obsessed with yesterday. You “could not” go anywhere and be accepted THEN, but you can NOW. Yes we need to know history, but we can’t live in it. We don’t live in 1885, or 1948, or 1972, we live in 2022. We’re not still stuck in those days. ..well, most of us aren’t, you apparently are.
What my grandparents went through I do not have to go through. I’ve never entered a restaurant and been told “We don’t serve your kind here, boy.” Not once. I’ve never been denied a loan because of my skin color. Etc. None of those things have ever happened to me. Yes they did happen to my grandfather – but I am not my grandfather, I’m me.
The only people who ever worry about the race of someone else’s spouse are you RACE OBSESSED liberals. What difference does it make who a person falls in love with and marries? Or are you one of these bigots who believes people should only marry within their own race? You make Archie Bunked looks like Gandhi. I don’t feel that I’m accepted everywhere I go because I’ve “ARRIVED”, I’m accepted everywhere I go because I’m accepted everywhere I go. If you choose to walk around with a chip on your shoulder from 60 years ago, fine, you do that. I live in the freest nation on earth and refuse to carry that hate in my heart.
Wow, project much? “They” discriminate? Just what exactly do you think you’re doing? Again, you RACE OBSESSED liberals are the only ones who care so dearly about this. Ask yourself why.
Kindly explain exactly how I’ve been racist against my own people? I simply said that I am not oppressed. And I’m not. That isn’t racist against anyone. It seems quite evident who the real racist is here. You place limitations on how we Blacks are allowed to think, behave and whom we can marry – yet you point the finger of racist accusation at someone else??! Might want to check the mirror, b/c whenever you point a finger there’s three pointing right back atcha.
What do you think is going on in the rural south? Do you think crosses are still being burned into Black folk’s lawns? That we’re being lynched? That there are no Black entrepreneurs, no Black business owners who are thriving, that no Blacks are getting an education, that we’re just stuck living at the whim of the KKK? Is that what you think? Perhaps you are the one who needs to pay a visit and get her eyes opened. This isn’t 1952. We Blacks have come a long way.
While we appreciate your prayers, what causes you to think I do not know Black history? Saying “I am not oppressed” = not knowing history? That doesn’t even make sense. What I said was the I am not oppressed, not that Blacks in America have never been oppressed. That’s clearly what you heard, but its not what I said.
Look how much time you’ve devoted to examining the past. In his writing to the people of the church in Philippi the apostle Paul gave himself credit for but one thing; “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,” (Philippians 3:13-16) I know Black history perfectly well, the difference between us is that I know it, but I choose not to continue living in it. You cannot make the same claim.
The Lincoln Public Schools have BLM posters on the walls. I’ve been to the LPS school board meeting three times trying to have them removed because I think they are racist and divisive. I’ve had no luck. Do you have any advice?
Could try circulating a petition and, assuming it garners widespread support/large number of signatures from the community, present it to the board. They are (supposed to be) “representatives.” And/or next election cycle run for and displace a member on the board, encourage others to do the same for other seats up for election.
You go Derrick! I also saw you on Dr Phil and feel he did not give you a fair shake. Dr Phil kept saying we will answer that after the break, but never did. Evidently Dr Phil wants to push his CRT agenda.