Black Conservatives Don’t Need to Be Brainwashed to Be Wrong By Zak Cheney-Rice
(The Intelligencer) -- "Vice released a half-hour documentary last week about young black American conservatives. It charts the awakening of a growing cohort of millennials and Generation Z–ers to a notion articulated in the film by Candace Owens, a 29-year-old activist: that “black lives have never, ever, ever mattered to the Democrat party,” but “black votes always have.” Such ahistoricism is common among the film’s subjects. It is true that black votes have been key to recent Democratic electoral successes, but false that this has “always” been the case. On the contrary: Until the 1960s, southern Democrats were segregationists committed to denying black suffrage altogether. Black people stopped voting Republican in large numbers because the GOP opposed civil rights legislation — just as the Democrat-led federal government was taking a more active role in protecting black voting rights."
RESPONCE: This is a well written article until you get to the end, and then it spirals into something else altogether. The writer assumes that there is only one type of black conservatism. But, as the black conservative writer Donté Bland opines , "a black conservatism rooted in the thought of a Frederick Douglass or a Garvey or Malcolm X is more attractive/beneficial insofar as it's foundation is built upon our history and placed within that cultural context while still being distinctively conservative.”
This article is a typical leftist tactic to use one group to malign the entire group -- as if they are one in the same. But authentic black conservatives have been dealing with this for years, and know just how to deal with it.
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nd for us, well, it's just water off a duck's back.
This interview is much better and fairer: https://home.isi.org/black-conservatism-america-today
