Two issues are now at the forefront of the national agenda that the GOP could capitalize on to regain (slowly) the black vote:  school choice and gay marriage.  And, strangely enough, the opportunity to begin to take advantage of this is in DC itself.  It is becoming increasingly obvious that the Democrats’ priorities do not align with that of black Americans, and this needs to be articulated not only in public forums but also via grassroots efforts among local black communities.  The GOP likes to debate how to “expand the tent;” well, this would be an appropriate way to do it.  It does not involve giving up our core conservative values; instead, it involves marketing them to a constituency that actually shares them with us.

The first issue – school choice – is apparently overwhelmingly supported by DC’s minority residents, most of whom are the beneficiaries of the voucher program Congressional Dems are gutting.  Let’s not also forget about the support of the current and previous mayor and many DC officials.  Today there was a sizeable rally that took place in DC, mostly attended by the minority residents who benefited from the voucher program.  The GOP should have been out there in the midst of this rally, if not leading it.  This is a winning issue for the party to begin to reshape black support for the GOP and call out the painful costs of providing a blank check of support for the Democrats.  Black America supported Democrats overwhelmingly, and they are repaid by cuts to the only program that proved successful and allowed parents to rescue their children from failing schools.  The Dems are essentially imprisoning minority children in a broken school system that severely limits their ability to succeed.

The second issue is gay marriage.  Blacks, by at least a 70-30 percent margin, oppose gay marriage, and many are insulted when advocates attempt to equate the marriage issue to the historic struggle of equal rights for blacks in this country.  The Democrats are clearly the party that is going to allow marriage to be redefined, which will have severe ramifications on our ability to practice our religions freely and hinder our ability to teach our children what marriage actually is.  This, like school choice, directly affects black Christian families.  You could even raise abortion as a similar issue on which the GOP and black America are aligned, which has been responsible for a holocaust inflicted on black America because black children are disproportionately targeted by Planned Parenthood and many more black children are denied a chance at life than white children.

As the Democrats continue to impose their fiscal mismanagement on America, to include cap and trade and other tax hikes on the lower class, I believe the case will become clearer that the Democrats no longer have the best interests at heart for black America.  The GOP must begin to make its case NOW.