re: How do we feel about this Bill Maher business?

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Are conservatives more racially understanding than liberals?

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Neither side of the aisle has a monopoly on racism.

The left is habitually more ruthless when it comes to minorities who don't toe the party line, however.

Bolstering my point. That's in no way a good thing and you would not believe the level of vitriol a black conservative gets from most other black people.

Like, the level of racist invective SJWs fantasize all conservatives as having towards minorities pales in comparison

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More black people would vote conservative if the GOP would stop holding them in contempt

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The GOP isn't doing this at all. The groupthink among the demographic is the driver.

Honestly, it almost doesn't matter what Ds or Rs say during/between election cycles at this point. Both can really only pay lip service.

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Black people are more conservative than most people realize...even they themselves. Sit down and talk to some, especially the college educated. You'd be surprised.

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This has long been a point of mine. Which goes back to the groupthink overriding so much of what would make sense otherwise.

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Black people are voting for what's perceived as the lesser of two evils. If they found a "home," they'd vote for that side for life.

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This is another problem. I'd feel uncomfortable even as a conservative myself if the pendulum swung the other way and 95% of black people voted GOP. The groupthink has to stop, especially as black people come from increasingly eclectic backgrounds.

When a demographic can be counted upon to vote almost 100% one way, that demographic has effectively abdicated their voting power.

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Its hard to fight against groupthink when a majority of policy and rhetoric focuses on hammering the worst-off

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I'm afraid I must disagree with that premise. If anything, the GOP has been an overwhelming advocate for incentivizing the worst off to better their station. This doesn't go over well with the left, who predicate their social policy and rhetoric upon convincing the worst off to increasingly lean on the government, not themselves. The democrats have habitually preyed on the worst off, and fend off any overtures from the right as racism of some sort.

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One example is Nikki Haley ordering the Confederate flag to be removed from public grounds after the Charlestown shootings, but she was hammered by her own base. Work to do. 

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Step in the right direction. I concur.

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Colin Powell is a true conservative patriot who never felt he had to disown and hammer black people to "fit in" (i.e. Sheriff Clarke). 

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Sheriff Clarke is the epitome of a patriot. He doesn't feel the need to sugarcoat his commentary regarding the problems people face just because their melanin content is similar to his. If more black men....more black FATHERS, specifically, comported themselves like Clarke, it would ameliorate so many problems that the government has been trying in vain for years to solve with ubiquitous programs.

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Many black people are pro 2nd amendment, but feel ostracized by the NRA because of the recent silence on police shootings, especially the Philando Castille killing. So now the NAAGA is gaining support. There shouldn't be a need for the NAAGA. The NRA needs to realize they have many loyal black members who are pro 2A, and believe in responsible, law abiding gun ownership. 

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Both of my parents are longtime NRA members. I will be as well within a year or two. I believe the NRA doesn't bear a responsibility to have commentary on every single national story when it comes to gun violence or police shooting. The overwhelming majority of the time, the civilian in question wasn't even an NRA member/legal gun owner, or, as was the case in the PC shooting, there was fault on both sides of the incident. Fault that the NRA and any CHL class worth their salt drill into you repeatedly how to avoid. Ad nauseum even. I think when a gun incident occurs, some folks try to use the NRA as a scapegoat, which is highly disingenuous.

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I remember how patriotic this entire country felt after 9/11. I wish we could feel that way without it being a response to a tragedy.

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Politics thrives in and actively cultivates animosity. The biggest change in the social landscape since 9/11 is the advent of social media. SM is not the problem in and of itself, but it's a tool that can be utilized on both the micro and macro levels to foment a steady churning of political unrest and divisive rhetoric.