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The whole point of OP's stupid thread is that Black conservatives don't exist unless they are pandering fools/tokens. This is talking point that seems entrenched in the black community and American politics. If there are white conservatives then there are also black conservatives. But liberals only talk about Blacks as Democrats (party ID) and never as liberals/conservaties because Black Americans and Black immigrants are generally more conservative. This is a nuanced subject that most people don't seem to understand. |
Malcom X would be a Republican today. |
Can you not understand that one can be liberal leaning and be a Republican? A Republican or a Democrat does not have to cosign all the party ideas in order to identify with a political party. I am conservative but generally vote for the Democratic party when the Republican candidate is too far right. |
I'd throw MLK in there too. |
Yup. Tim Scott. |
MLK didn't have a party affiliation when he was alive, so I think it's a pretty big stretch to say he'd have one in 2023. |
It's safe to say that even without a party affiliation, he was conservative. |
No doubt about that. And progressives would call him a sell out racist bigot. |
What's your evidence for this? What principles of conservative thought (something from the Sharon Statement or Russell Kirk's distillation of the basic conservative "canons" or something similar) do you think MLK's thought exemplifies? I wouldn't say there's zero points of overlap, but they tend to be places where certain beliefs cut across ideological lines. There's a conservative school of thought that's anti-militarist, for instance, even if its often crowded out by the hawks, but that's true on the left as well. MLK believed pretty strongly that capitalism was a problem, which is hard to square with most, but not all, conservative thought. That's certainly not anything the left would call him a bigot for believing. His support for a guaranteed minimum income wouldn't endear him to the right nor would his strong support for unions. I'm not going to argue that he's totally a man of the left either, he certainly had disagreement with people on that side, but to call him a "no doubt" conservative seems pretty ignorant of his thought (which is much more interesting and challenging than most Democrat vs Republican political fights. |
Delusional. The only things Tim Scott and MLK have in common is skin color. |
Blacks make up 0.9% of American conservative politics but to hear them yammering here on this thread and trying to claim every other prominent black in history as one of their own they'd sure like to try and make you believe otherwise. |
Isn't skin color the single most important thing? |
LOL. For wanna-be slave owners, maybe. |
How? |
Hmm lemme think. Oh yeah: They are the most racist human being in the world! |