Jun 12, 2020
Kathy Barnette, author of Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: Being Black and Conservative in America. Kathy is also currently running for U.S. Congress in the 4th District of Pennsylvania.
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets across America again Sunday, with peaceful demonstrations against police killings of black people overshadowed by unrest that quickly ravaged parts of cities from Pennsylvania to California.
City and state officials had deployed thousands of National Guard soldiers, enacted strict curfews and shut down mass transit systems, but that did little to stop many cities from again erupting into unrest.
Protesters in Philadelphia hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails at police, officials said, while masked crowds broke into upscale stores in a San Francisco suburb, fleeing with bags of merchandise. In Minneapolis, a truck driver drove into a massive crowd of demonstrators nearly a week after the death of George Floyd, a black man who pleaded for air as an officer pressed a knee into his neck.
Conservative political
commentator Kathy Barnette shares how liberal
leadership has failed the black community and how being a democrat
is not synonymous with your skin color.
During his first historic run for the presidency in 2016, Donald
Trump made an impassioned plea to the black community. "Give me a
chance," he said. "What the hell do you have to lose?"
According to Kathy Barnette, black Americans have nothing
to lose, except for crime ridden communities, neighborhoods that
have become shooting galleries, more social welfare programs, and
the mocking indifference of the Democrat
party. Barnette argues that even a cursory look into the
black community reveals the destabilizing effect liberal policies
have had on the black family.
There was a time when Barnette bought into the same lie
as everyone else-that if you're black, you must be a democrat. In
fact, she was born into the Democrat party just as much as she was
born into brown skin. There was no point of separation. Until she
began to understand what it truly means to be black in
America. Barnette contends that being black is more than
just the color of her skin. It's a culture and a consciousness,
too.
In NOTHING TO LOSE, EVERYTHING TO GAIN, Barnette writes
about why liberal policies have failed the black community time and
time again - and will fail the larger American community as
Democrats rush to the hard Left of the party. From the "Great
Society" to Kanye West's ongoing war with the liberal
establishment, this book provides sharp, eloquent commentary on the
most pressing issues facing black Americans today: broken family
structure, loss of identity, the legacy of slavery, and more.
Barnette argues that President Trump has not been willing to
presume that the "black vote" is a foregone conclusion resting
comfortably in the back pockets of Democrats. With his plainspoken
style and willingness to face harsh truths, the president has done
more for the black community than any president since Abraham
Lincoln. Barnette insists the time is now to get back
what has been lost, to fix the brokenness, and to recognize and
support those who are actually working in our favor.