That’s because the left offers hand outs to minorities and it’s totally natural for any human being to accept free benefits, especially when government provides a education that spends the entire month of February drilling into the heads of impressionable kids that black folks in particular are never-ending victims and thus deserved of entitlements. That’s pretty hard to fight against.
I feel what you’re saying, but I think maybe people are getting tripped up on the semantics of “irrational”. That’s a hard one. Because it’s a rational conclusion to come to that mankind is inherentally racist due to an impulse to gravitate toward those who appear to have closer genetic relatedness. But it’s irrational not to hire someone or even communicate with them simply because of their race, with no regard to their personal qualities. In fact, i think that we can all agree that racism is UNPRODUCTIVE. In fact, counter productive in many ways. Dialetics, Philosophy, Economics, Biology and the very evolution of Language itself all work upon the same organic principle of of competing traits. The Free Market of Ideas must have competition and hateful racial collectivism would end the competition of ideas.
i see more minorities in the movement now, but I live in Philadelphia and here I’m the minority. But you know what I mean. More black folks are getting into it because they’re often not going to reach out to the Republican Party (and for good reason I would like to add) yet wish to reject the entrapments of the Democrats and the left.
If you’re interested in recruiting, then take it from me: what works is front groups, and knowledge of demographics. I used to be a radical. I was an anarchist. Mostly an individualist, but it’s dominated by collectivists and people who are essentially communists and I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I was drawn in to a little of that in my youth. But what i did learn was that the left really, really knows how to organize. If you’d like to see more black folks or other minorities in the movement you have to know the demographics to look for.
First and foremost: Welfare Recipients and many Muslims are OUT. Forget it. Start with the world the way that it is. Form a bloc of people that are close to our ideas and they will guide the others through example. Remember, most revolutions are fought by about 5% of the population. Everyone else just sits back and waits to cheer for whoever wins. You need to recruit a few shining examples and I’ll tell you what to look for. You want conservatives? Church. Recruit SOCIAL conservatives. People who don’t go in for the gay agenda and that sort of thing. Throw around the term social conservative. Get more black folks to understand that it doesn’t meet Republican, just traditional family values and belief in private property and a strong military. When they are interested in a political philosophy that supports that, introduce them to libertarianism.
The other big demographic - and this is how I recruit black folks into the movement - Black Entrepeneurs. Self starts, businessmen and the self employed. Meetup.org or facebook can be a place to find folks like that. First you start throwing around ideas about taxation and Austrian economics. But you don’t hit them with everything because it turns them off. That would turn anyone off. But get them into Howard Bloom or Hayek, maybe Rothbard. Have them listen to a more sensational position on an issue from a libertarian perspective, then when THEY ask you tell them you are a libertarian, and a conservative. Because, ultimately people have to come to the movement on their own terms. It’s got to be about self discovery and self education. The best we can do is raise curiosity and to do that you gotta know your demographics.