Hat Tip to Hot Air
I came across this posting today from Hot Air's coverage of the CPAC convention. Meet Mia Love, a young African-American mayor from Utah who is running for Congress with a bright new message.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/11/black-female-conservative-congressional-candidate-mia-love-conventional-wisdom-says-i-dont-exist/
I don't know from this article whether Mia is being subjected to the "Uncle Tom", "Aunt Jemima" treatment from her liberal opponents, as we recently witnessed in Memphis. Being in Utah, where people are more civil, I guess Mia's situation is better.
At any rate, I am always happy to recognize conservative blacks who have the courage to go against the grain.
Good luck to you Mia.
Mormons can't wait to have a black Republican to vote for. Then they can put behind them, once and for all, the jokes about how long it took before Spencer Kimball came down from the tower of the Tabernacle to announce that God had told him it was thenceforward OK for black people to join the LDS church.
ReplyDeleteIn all seriousness, I am compelled to point out that it is primarily if not exclusively white liberals, rather than white conservatives, who insist on contunuing to ride the extreme "white guilt" train in the 21st century.
ReplyDeleteThen why did the Republican Party choose Mr. Steele to serve as party chair for two years? Competence was certainly not among his outstanding characteristics, nor was eloquence. I admit many of those competing with him in late 2008 early 2009 made him look good by comparison.
ReplyDeleteBy I will agree with you elwood that liberals indulging in "white guilt" trips is tiresome. I just can't agree that it is the exclusive possession of any ideology. There are just different ways of expressing it.
Siarlys--I was/am not too impressed with Steele either, but I am not persuaded that he became the Chair of the RNC due to "white guilt" and am aware of no evidence that was actually the case. If you have any, please hit me with it.
ReplyDeleteAfter all, those same Republicans nominated McCain, a white guy, in 2008, and a lot of people questioned both his competence and his eloquence.
Further, Herman Cain is gone. In the near future, those same Republicans will nominate another white guy (from a pack none of which you appear to feel has any competence, and probably no eloquence).
Doesn't sound much like conservative white guilt to me, and I reiterate my claim that such is extremely rare, if it occurs at all. The term "if not exclusively", to my mind, is a little disclainer which allows for possible presence but not much of a probability that existence to any significant degree, if in fact at all. You should know that.
Republicans don't have politically correct "white guilt" trips like Democrats do. Republicans have "look at our black guy" trips -- which is a way of putting past errors behind them without ever admitting to them.
ReplyDeleteHaving a black candidate on the ballot means never having to say you're sorry.
Republican leadership, and a good portion of the Republican electorate, LOVE to have a black candidate on their line. It makes them feel all warm and fuzzy inside.