Sunday, August 14, 2005  Black Republicans  Recently Harry
Belafonte blasted blacks in George Bush's higher administration
as being "tyrants". He earlier raised eyebrows by stating that
Colin Powell was a House Negro. Other well known people such as
Al Sharpton have labeled any people who align themselves with
the Republican Party, or with conservative ideals as being black
in physical characteristic only. As if, there is some litmus
test of socio-political thought that allows you to be a card-
carrying member of the black race. I myself am a Democrat, and I
am more of a centrist on issues. But, overall when it comes to
social issues I consider myself to be liberal. I have no problem
calling myself liberal, and it irks me when people rename
themselves as "progressives" to avoid the "scourge of being
declared a liberal". I recognize the ebb and flow of political
and cultural tides here in the United States, and I remember
when the Republicans were the minority party, the idea of being
conservative was synonymou