Black American Republicans ?

  Yes i know the title of this may be a bit provocative but,

Why would a Black American want to be or vote for a republican ?

Answer:

 Top 10 reasons to be or vote Republican - Capitalist - Conservative.

1. belief and love for large families
2. Support life, not abortion
3. Choose the best school for your child even private school paid for by the tax payers.
4. Hard work and persistence always pays off, you are rewarded for your work ethic. 
5. Personal responsibility builds confidence and encourages massive success.
6. Start your own business its easy because of minimal regulations and SBA Loans.
7. Enjoy a booming economy because of "Capitalism"
8. Republicans have promoted more Black Americans to higher political positions
9. Produced more Black CEO's in all of American history.
10. Cost of living is lower due to small government and smaller taxes.


The following is a list of  Political Black Republicans:


A

    Claude Allen, former White House Domestic Policy Advisor
    Renee Amoore, health care advocate & founder and president of The Amoore Group, Inc.; former candidate for Republican National Committee Co-Chairwoman
    Caesar Antoine, 13th Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana

B

    J. Kenneth Blackwell, former Secretary of State of Ohio, former gubernatorial candidate
    Michelle Bernard, journalist, author, columnist
    Lynette Boggs, former Las Vegas City Councilwoman, former Clark County, NV commissioner, former candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives
    Peter Boulware, former NFL linebacker and Republican candidate for the Florida House of Representatives, District 9.
    Jennette Bradley, former Treasurer of the State of Ohio
    Edward Brooke, former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, first African American elected by popular vote to the U.S. Senate
    Stephen Broden, conservative commentator, Life Always board member (a pro-life organization) and evangelical pastor, 2010 Congressional candidate
    Janice Rogers Brown, a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals
    Blanche Bruce, former U.S. Senator from Mississippi, first African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate
    Keith Butler, Republican national committeeman from Michigan, former councilman for Detroit, minister and former U.S. Senatorial candidate

C
Herman Cain

    Herman Cain, businessman, media personality, and former candidate for President of the United States in 2012.
    Jennifer Carroll, Lieutenant Governor of Florida[1]
    Ron Christie, former advisor to Vice-President Dick Cheney[2]
    Octavius Valentine Catto, civil rights activist and African American baseball pioneer
    Henry P. Cheatham, former U.S. Representative from North Carolina
    Eldridge Cleaver, author and civil rights leader
    William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr., fourth United States Secretary of Transportation, first African American Supreme Court Clerk[3]
    Ward Connerly, political activist, businessman, and former University of California Regent
    Norris Wright Cuney, Chairman of the Texas Republican Party (1886-1896)

D
Frederick Douglass

    Randy Daniels, former Secretary of State of New York, 2006 Gubernatorial candidate
    Artur Davis, former Democratic Alabama Congressman, speaker at 2012 Republican National Convention, potential Republican candidate
    Oscar Stanton de Priest, former U.S. Representative from Illinois
    Robert DeLarge, South Carolina congressman
    Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, editor, orator, author, and statesman
    Oscar Dunn, 11th Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana
    Edward Duplex, Mayor of Wheatland, California (1888)

E

    Larry Elder, talk radio host and commentator
    Robert Brown Elliott, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina
    Melvin H. Evans, former U.S. Representative from, and former Governor of, the U.S. Virgin Islands

F

    James L. Farmer, Jr., civil rights leader
    Michel Faulkner, pastor, former defensive lineman for the New York Jets, a 2010 nominee for New York's 15th congressional district
    Arthur Fletcher, official in the administrations of Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush; considered the "father of affirmative action"
    Gary Franks, former U.S. Representative from Connecticut
    Ryan Frazier, Aurora City Councilman, 2010 nominee for Colorado's 7th congressional district
    Samuel B. Fuller, founder and president of the Fuller Products Company, publisher of the New York Age and Pittsburgh Courier, head of the South Side Chicago NAACP, president of the National Negro Business League, and a prominent black Republican
    Virginia Fuller, 2010 and 2012 Congressional Candidate

G

    James Garner (politician), former mayor of the Village of Hempstead, New York, 2004 Congressional candidate
    Robert A. George (pundit), editorial writer for the New York Post, blogger and pundit
    James Golden (radio personality), producer on the Rush Limbaugh radio talk show

H

    Ken Hamblin, Radio host, political commentator, author, television personality
    Jeremiah Haralson, former U.S. Representative from Alabama
    Bill Hardiman, former Michigan State Senator, 2010 Congressional Candidate
    Erika Harold, 2003 Miss America, delegate to the 2004 Republican National Convention, 2012 Congressional Candidate
    Ted Hayes, activist for the homeless
    Amy Holmes, CNN political commentator and independent social conservative
    Deborah Honeycutt, 2006, 2008, 2010 congressional candidate;
    T.R.M. Howard, Mississippi civil rights leader, surgeon, entrepreneur and mentor to Medgar Evers and Fannie Lou Hamer
    Zora Neale Hurston, Folklorist, anthropologist, novelist, short story writer
    John Adams Hyman, former U.S. Representative from North Carolina

I

    Niger Innis, commentator and activist

J

    Alphonso Jackson, thirteenth Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
    Raynard Jackson, political consultant and political analyst for WUSA*9 TV (CBS affiliate) in Washington, DC
    Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson, first African-American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School; pro-life movement leader; Republican candidate for U.S. House and U.S. Senate[4]
    Wallace B. Jefferson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas
    James Weldon Johnson, first Black manager of the NAACP, president of the Colored Republican Club

K
Alan Keyes, 16th Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs

    Alan Keyes, former member of the Republican party and nominee for the U.S. Senate
    Alveda King, minister, political activist, author, niece of Martin Luther King Jr.
    Martin Luther King, Sr., Reverend, missionary, civil rights leader, father of Martin Luther King, Jr.

L

    Stephen N. Lackey, fundraiser, philanthropist
    John Mercer Langston, former U.S. Representative from Virginia
    Jefferson Franklin Long, former U.S. Representative from Georgia
    Mia Love, mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah, 2012 Congressional candidate
    John Roy Lynch, former U.S. Representative from Mississippi

M

    Lenny McAllister, political analyst, community activist, and author
    Angela McGlowan, political analyst, 2010 Congressional candidate
    James Meredith, civil rights leader
    Thomas Ezekiel Miller, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina
    Eric Motley, former Deputy Associate Director, Office of Presidential Personnel in Bush Administration
    George Washington Murray, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina
    E. Frederic Morrow, first African-American to hold an executive position at the White House. He served under President Dwight D. Eisenhower as Administrative Officer for Special Projects from 1955 to 1961.
    Steven Mullins, Connecticut politician, Planning & Zoning Commissioner, City of West Haven, 2009 Republican nominee for Mayor of West Haven, 2002 Republican nominee for State Comptroller

N

    Charles Edmund Nash, former U.S Representative from Louisiana
    Sophia A. Nelson, Lawyer, author, political commentator
    Constance Berry Newman, U.S. diplomat; former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; member of International Republican Institute

O

    James E. O'Hara, Congressman from North Carolina

P
Colin Powell, 65th Secretary of State

    Rod Paige, seventh U.S. Secretary of Education
    Sherman Parker, Missouri state representative, ran for U.S. House of Representatives
    Vernon Parker, mayor of Paradise Valley, Arizona, 2010 Congressional candidate
    Star Parker, author, political commentator, 2010 Congressional candidate
    Edward J. Perkins, first African-American U.S. ambassador to South Africa
    Jesse Lee Peterson, civil rights activist, founder of Brotherhood of New Destiny
    Joseph C. Phillips, actor, columnist, commentator
    Pio Pico, last governor of Mexican California. Formed the Republican Party in California.[5]
    Samuel Pierce, former HUD Secretary
    P. B. S. Pinchback, twenty-fourth governor of Louisiana; first African-American governor of a U.S. state
    Colin Powell, 65th United States Secretary of State
    Michael Powell, 24th Chairman of the FCC
    Pierre-Richard Prosper, former Bush Administration war crimes official

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R
Condoleezza Rice, 66th Secretary of State

    Joseph H. Rainey, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina, first African American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives
    James T. Rapier, former U.S. Representative from Alabama
    Hiram Rhodes Revels, former U.S. Senator from Mississippi, first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate
    Condoleezza Rice, 66th United States Secretary of State
    Jack E. Robinson III, former party nominee for U.S. House, U.S. Senate, and Secretary of the Commonwealth in Massachusetts
    Vernon Robinson, former candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina
    Joe Rogers, former Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, youngest Lieutenant Governor in Colorado history
    Carson Ross Mayor of Blue Springs, MO, Fmr. Missouri State Rep
    Jackie Robinson, baseball player (changed parties after Goldwater nomination).

S
Michael Steele, 64th Chairman of the Republican National Committee

    Paul H. Scott, Michigan State Representative
    Tim Scott. Representative, South Carolina's 1st Congressional District
    Marvin Scott. Congressional Candidate
    Winsome Sears. Former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 2004 Congressional Candidate
    Robert Smalls, South Carolina
    Joshua I. Smith, appointed commissioner of Minority Business Development by President George H. W. Bush
    Princella Smith, 2010 Congressional Candidate, She PAC member
    DeForest "Buster" Soaries, former New Jersey Secretary of State
    Thomas Sowell, economist, writer and commentator
    Michael S. Steele, political commentator, former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, former candidate for the U.S. Senate and elected chairman of the Republican National Committee
    Shelby Steele, author
    Thomas Stith, III, former member of the city council of Durham, North Carolina, 2004 Candidate for Lieutenant Governor, 2007 mayoral candidate for Durham, North Carolina
    Lynn Swann, former NFL player, former Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate

T
Clarence Thomas, Associate Supreme Court Justice
Sojourner Truth

    Noel C. Taylor, mayor of Roanoke, Virginia from 1975 to 1992[6]
    Clarence Thomas, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court
    Thurman Thomas, former Buffalo Bill, Republican activist, supported and campaigned for 2010 New York Republican Gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino
    Sojourner Truth, abolitionist speaker and suffrage advocate
    Harriet Tubman, abolitionist speaker and suffrage advocate
    Benjamin S. Turner, Alabama Congressman
    David Tyree, former New York Giant, anti-same-sex marriage advocate

U

    James L. Usry, former mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey

V

    William T. Vernon, Register of the Treasury under President Theodore Roosevelt[7]

W

    Dale Wainwright, Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court
    Eric Wallace (entrepreneur), pastor, entrepreneur, serves on the African American Advisory Board for the Republican National Committee
    Josiah Walls, former U.S. Representative from Florida, and one of the first African-Americans to serve in the U.S. House
    Booker T. Washington, educator and activist
    Maurice Washington, Nevada State Senator
    J. C. Watts, former U.S. Representative from Oklahoma
    Ida B. Wells, civil rights advocate, co-founder of the NAACP
    Allen West, Representative, U.S. House of Representatives (FL-22)
    J. Ernest Wilkins, Sr., Assistant Secretary of Labor under President Eisenhower[8]
    Armstrong Williams, radio and television commentator
    Michael L. Williams, Texas Railroad Commissioner
    Walter E. Williams, author, commentator, economist
    Vern Williams, member of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel
    Barb Davis White, 2010 Congressional Candidate

Y

    William F. Yardley, anti-segregation advocate, first African American candidate for governor of Tennessee (1876)

Z