Why Black Conservatives Are Stupid

Know why I think black conservatives are stupid? Because in an America and a world where more and more people are seeing the benefits of commonalities and collectivism, they are neanderthals who go against history and nature.

A common thread of black conservatives -- from what I've read of Condi Rice and Clarence Thomas to what I've heard from friends and associates -- is that they believe the individual should shoulder the burden and that the "black community" is worse off because of their solidarity.

Interesting.

Because from my seat in the bleachers I see all kinds of communities coalescing to help their collective selves - lesbians in Hollywood, Jews on Wall Street, Texas Good Ol' Boys, female athletes, bike riders, Hispanics.

Why then do conservatives bad mouth the rest of us for our own collectivism. I've been told I'm a sheep, that I'm not thinking for myself, even that there is no real "black community."

After years of politely holding my tongue, I have to make an assessment: they're full of shit.

Individual achievement can exist within the framework of a collective. Hell, that's what the family unit is about. Community is just "family" writ large. What bothers me is the tone deafness they must have to even posit such bullshit.

In an era when Rand Paul is calling into the question the Civil Rights Amendment and Tea Partiers are working the hell out of the race card, they honestly think we don't need each other? I look around and I thank God for Pres. Obama, A.G. Holder, Michelle Obama, Oprah, Michael Jordan and any other family members I see.

And, when I hear that I'm stupid for voting Democratic, I ask myself how sick I would have to be to vote for a party -- the GOP -- that actively hates my community. It has accused me and mine of crimes uncommitted and abused my rights as an American. It is a party that defends and extols the memory of a terrorist state -- the Confederacy -- that is dearest to racists.

I'm talking the modern GOP, which is the one black conservatives support -- not the Abraham Lincoln party. The party that black conservatives support is the one that's built on a foundation of racism called the Southern Strategy. If they want to get back to the values represented by Lincoln, they'd have to be Democrats.