The GOP turns to Jesus.

If you are a person of color and you are trying to get paid, this might be a good time to grab that bible that has been sitting around the house and brush up on your scriptures.

In case you haven't heard, the GOP is trying to reach Negroes of faith. I suggest that you start a church and start reaching out to those GOP folks. Apparently they have some money to spend. And don't worry if your church only has a congregation made up of you, your cousin, and a couple of childhood friends. It's all good. Republicans will not know the difference. It's not like they are ever going to go into your neighborhood to find out if your church is real.

"As Republican Party state officials across the country continue to give restrictive Jim Crow voter ID laws the modern spin, their cohorts on the national level are reportedly reaching out to a certain sect of the Black community. But how do you “reach out” to a community you’re purposely trying to keep away from the voting polls? Exactly.

In a recent piece for New York magazine, writer Grace Wyler reports on the GOP doing “something historic at an Evangelical confab in Iowa.” That would be an organized attempt at drawing the Black Christian vote with the aid of Black church leaders. As pointed out in the report, it’s not exactly a brand-new concept. After all, former President George W. Bush made similar attempts during his time in office.

Still, the GOP is taking it one step further — organizing as a party versus just allowing its candidate do the leg work for them.

But in Iowa last Friday, minority church leaders finally got a seat at the table, when a group of about 20 Black and Hispanic pastors joined 400 Iowa evangelicals in Des Moines for a two-day Christian Right confab. The pastors heard speeches from Senate Tea Party darlings Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and sat down with Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus to discuss how the GOP could better establish relationships with churchgoers in Black and Hispanic communities.

Republican strategists said that Friday’s meeting was the first time in recent memory that the Party has made a concerted effort to include Black and Hispanic church leaders in developing the GOP’s minority outreach strategy. While individual candidates — most notably former President George W. Bush — have brought on Black Christian leaders to advise their campaign strategies, the party proper has lacked a cohesive plan to build relationships with Black and Hispanic Evangelicals in between election cycles.

Former Oklahoma congressman J.C. Watts has long pushed his party to reach out to minority voters. In the article, Watts laments, “The party has done very little to bring Black and Hispanic Evangelicals in to the fold. If you’re going to tell me that’s too harsh, then I’ll say, Fine. They’ve not done much. You can probably put in to a thimble what the RNC has done to create any kind of network.”

He went on to add, ”It’s about having relationships, and that covers a multitude of sins." [Source]

"THE FIELD NEGRO DELIVERANCE TABERNACLE". How does that sound?

*Pic from Eurweb.com.