Black Conservatism

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This will be the first in a string of “shorts” that will, taken together, make a “long” on the subject of Black Conservatism. Since most media today still is liberal, these great Americans do not get their fair share of airtime.

Of course, a few African-Americans do get some negative, or at least controversial, notoriety when they take a conservative position on anything. Note Bill Cosby, and recently, Juan Williams. Cosby has been criticized by his own community for taking African-Americans to task for concentrating on old shibboleths like racism, instead of taking responsibility for their own lives and concentrating on hard work, education, and positive artistic expression.

Juan Williams, recently, has gotten negative notoriety from the liberals and from some members of the African-American community for similarly chastising Blacks in his groundbreaking book, Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America -- and What We Can Do About It. I’d like to go into detail in the future on both Cosby and Williams. For now, I’m just giving a preview.

As food for thought in today’s post, I’m going to list for you a partial compendium of accomplished Black conservatives.

I think it’s instructive just to see how long and distinguished this list is. I’m going to start with politicians:

Notable Black Conservatives

Politicians

Janice Rogers Brown, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Condoleezza Rice, United States Secretary of State, former National Security Advisor

Colin Powell, United States Secretary of State

Michael Steele, Lieutenant Governor of Maryland.

Clarence Thomas, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, former Equal Employment Opportunity Commission chair

J.C. Watts, former U.S. Representative from Oklahoma,

Michael Powell, former FCC chairman

Anne Cools, Conservative Senator from Ontario

Donald Oliver, Conservative Senator from Nova Scotia

Ken Blackwell, Secretary of State of Ohio

Keith Butler, minister, Detroit councilman, candidate for U.S. Senate from Michigan

Rod PaigeFormer Secretary of Education

Wallace Jefferson, chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court

DeForest "Buster" Soaries, former Secretary of State, New Jersey

Winsome Sears, member of Virginia House of Delegates, candidate for U.S. House

Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, senior fellow at the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution

I dare you to call all these people “Uncle Toms.”

These are the brightest and the best politicians that the African-American community has to offer, with some notable exceptions on the left (like Barack Obama).

The message, if you are African-American and are conservative, deep down in your heart, if you believe in family values and a strong defense, low taxes and personal responsibility, you don’t have to hide in the closet. You can make it out there and contribute to the world as a conservative.

The message for liberals is that you don’t own the Black community. Stop pandering to them. Stop talking down to them. Stop using them. Their conservative ranks are growing, in numbers and in prominence.

In future posts, I’ll be getting more into this issue, and also list notable Black conservatives from several other walks of life.

Rock


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