Black republicans and conservatives

[Proud liberal 80]

I just don’t understand how they can be in a party where a good chunk of the people are racists.

But what really pisses me off is that these people use their “blackness” as a ticket to be prejudice against other African Americans. On top of that, they say that other black people talk about color too much and need to stop, but they are the ones using their color to become known and make money.

[maxsolomon]

1. I have several HS friends who are Black Republicans

well, they WERE friends. 35 years ago...

[rusty quoin]

3. LOL (about the wife)

[Ohiogal]

2. Like Ben Carson.

[EffieBlack]

4. Short line

[CurtEastPoint]

5. Or LGBT Repubes. Incredible.

[Afromania]

6. There are always going to be some people of any given group that "willingly" side with those

that denigrate their group as a way to prove they themselves are better than said group. It's a strange way to prove ones worth to society but there ya go.

[GaryCnf]

7. File under "expected but still disappointing"

I recall reading Clarence Thomas' "My Grandfather's Son" where he writes about how his father was a man with some problems and how his grandfather raised him with middle class values and a Catholic School education and how that showed him that all you need to "succeed" is effort. He then turned around and has spent the rest of his life condemning those who did not "succeed."

[Thekaspervote]

8. Like Michael Steele who couldn't get over how they gave him the RNC chair as the token black?

[Aristus]

9. I know that there are black conservatives whose main issue is opposition to homosexuality.

I find it amusing that they use the argument: 'Well, the Bible clearly says...'

Especially since that's the argument that white Southerners used to justify and defend the institution of slavery.