Black Conservative Clears Up Allegations of Racism

RUSH: Paul in San Antonio. Great to have you, sir. Thank you for waiting. Hello.

CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush. I am a conservative who just happens to be black. And I wanted to personally thank you for your commentary, but more so than your commentary, I wanted to thank you for the information you provide with it, because that’s what ties everything together.

RUSH: Thank you. I appreciate that, sir, very much.

CALLER: I wanted to give you a brief explanation of how I came upon this journey of being conservative, especially coming from the black community. As you would say, at 17 I was a young skull full of mush. I was beaten over the head and terrified that if I didn’t vote for Jimmy Carter in my first election we were basically gonna go back to slavery. Well, I did notice that after he was elected it got worse, not necessarily for black America, but just for America in general. So I chalked that one up.

Then Reagan came along, and I really heard, we were about to get lynched, we were about to basically go back to slavery. And that didn’t happen. And I noticed that America actually got a little bit better overall. I’m like, okay, what’s going on? I’m the kind of person that needs to know why. So your show came along. And at the time I heard somebody talking about how you were racist. So, much like the Mueller investigation, I embarked upon a journey to find out, to see what was going on.

So after 20 years, just like the Mueller investigation, I finally had to close the investigation down after finding out that you have not colluded with or have ever been a racist. And just like the Mueller investigation, people are not happy with it, and they’re still spreading the propaganda that you must have somehow been this way and there’s no way to disprove it. So after 20 years of investigation, you’ve been cleared, and I just wanted to personally let you know that.

CALLER: And the people who wanted me to initiate the investigation are not happy and they’re still determined to say that you’re racist, just like the Mueller investigation. No matter what you do, you must be racist. Which leads me to my final point if I could make it.

RUSH: Yeah.

CALLER: You’ve often asked in the black community why it is black America, though they have mainly conservative values, totally rejects conservatism and conservatives for the most part. And I think I have the answer to that.

RUSH: What is it?

CALLER: If you’re in the black community — and most blacks do practice conservatism, anti-abortion, free speech, gun rights — but to embrace conservative ideology and those who represent it well, you would in fact have to dismiss all that you have been taught and admit that those who taught you were wrong in what they presented to you, which would be much akin to having a father that you thought was the greatest person in the world and then realizing he was either a criminal or a bad person. It’s hard to reconcile — from somebody that you trust.

RUSH: It’s an excellent point. … Okay. So you are sitting out there, and you’re fully expecting the country to go spiraling down. You’ve been told that Reagan is gonna bring back slavery and racism and the exact opposite happened. So while that’s happening, while America’s getting better all around you, what are you thinking?

CALLER: Well, Rush, I’m the type of person, I gotta know why. So I’m always in search of facts or something to prove or disprove. And one of the theories that I have is, in this situation, minus the absence of information, it makes it easier to control people with emotion. So since I was in search of facts, I was starting to get out of the emotional tie that I had to what I was being taught. Because every time I would listen to you, and I started looking for other sources and I’m like, okay, I’m hearing this mostly in my community and in this segment of the media, but in reality, as they used to say, here’s the rest of the story. And the rest of the story is usually where all the important information was.

RUSH: So you were able to rely on not just my opinion. You were able to tell, no, I’m not just telling you what he thinks, and you were able to relay information that you heard backing all that up?

CALLER: Rush, you’re kind of like a treasure map. You’re not actually digging up the treasure, but you gave me clues as to where to find the treasure. And the treasure would be the truth.

CALLER: (laughing) And it also led me to my three P’s, which I think are important and I try to relate this to people that I talk to, and that is always vote policy over party or personality. Because party and personality are two things that vary with the wind. Policy, out of all of them, that’s usually what’s gonna stay in effect and change your life over a longer period of time. And it’s hard to get people to see that because they get so invested into a personality and/or a party, both of which can let you down. A policy is what it is. It states this and it’s supposed to do this, and, yeah, sometimes it’s subverted and used in the wrong way, but overall it’s the safest way to make the right decision.

RUSH: Right. ‘Cause if you find out what a person’s policy really is, you’ll find out who they are, not by virtue of what they say or how they say it. Look at their policy. It’s like an identity. It can’t be denied.

CALLER: And one last thing, Rush, I just want to thank you again because with the tools that I’ve — with my journey, I’ve been able, I’ve been invited to — because I’m the lone conservative most of the time.

So when somebody needs an opposing view, I’m usually the one. And I had all three elements of what you usually fight against at one local event not too long ago. I had an auditorium full of college students, I had an NAACP president, and I had two local activists and I was the lone conservative up there. (laughing)

CALLER: Can I tell you one last thing? I did use one of your ploys at the end of the meeting. One of the college students got up, I had said that there was no such thing as systemic racism at this time, and they jumped up and there was a line of people to ask me about this, “Well, how can you say that?”

I said, “If there’s systemic racism, that means everybody’s involved. So if everybody’s involved, what makes you think that you protesting against your oppressors and telling them to stop oppressing you is gonna work?” And she couldn’t answer that. I was like, that makes no sense. I said, “Think about it. All the cities that you’re talking about, these shootings and the police, are happening in, the same people that say they’re on your side, which would be the Democrats, are also the ones that run these cities, which makes them run those police departments. So how much sense does your argument make?”

CALLER: Yeah, they were taught what to think, not how to think, and that’s what I try to do whenever I get a chance. And I’ve learned not to get frustrated

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