The people I cited are minstrel acts. They put on a show for white conservatives while stomping on black Americans. I call them out for what they are. You’ll notice that I don’t do so with someone like Colin Powell, who while a conservative and wrong on Iraq, somehow does so without making a fool of himself or black America.

No. It’s not hypocritical. Also: Schmidt?

Here,,just one of many examples of the minstrel term.

Can you comprehend the idea that a black american may have conservative political views and maybe, just maybe, isn’t a pawn?

Sure, its possible. But the ones that pop up are almost always minstrel acts – Ken Blackwell, Michael Steele, JC Watts, etc.

For mantis:
Michael Steele’s Minstrel Show

Which is the minstrel act of folks like Sonja Schmidt will always be just that.

And here, Oliver, you call Muichael Steele ‘The Great Black Hope’. No way there’s any hypocrisy there, is there, when you called you Lynn Jenkins a racist for saying ‘Great White Hope’. Panache, right, but not hypocrisy?

Or, this…”And considering the history of black conservatives willing to do anything for a buck, I’d take the testimony of Kenneth Gladney with a giant grain silo of salt.”

Toady wasn’t your term, but it applies to how you’ve many times characterized blacks who dared to be conservatives.

does this mean that calling all well-known black conservatives “minstrel toadies”, which OW does regularly, is racist too, Buffalopundit?

And one hour later:

Pretty sure you called Juan Williams that one time, OW.

Funny how concern troll’s accusations shift when called out, isn’t it? You do this all the time to everybody! Really? Well, I think maybe you did it once to one guy, but I can’t point out when or where.

I’m only sorry I can’t seem to use the italics on my PC.

Republicans often accuse Democrats of being baby killers, suggesting that by supporting the Democratic party, we are responsible for abortions by keeping them legal. In honesty I have to accept that I have a moral responsibility for abortion being legal–I knowingly support a party which has legal abortion as a major plank in its platform.

On the other hand, Republicans have to take responsibility for the fact that their party has promoted race based fears, to the detriment of a historically oppressed racial minority, for political gain. In doing so they have buttressed the framework of racism in our nation. They should be held as responsible for the tactics and goals of their party as Democrats are for theirs.

It astonishes me that people who hector us on the virtues of personal responsibility so frequently avoid taking responsibility for their own acts.

Um, the guy told OW, who is black, to “step-n-fetchit”. That’s racist.
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I didn’t read the original post and didn’t see (until now) that it was addressed specifically to Oliver. The language made it sound as if he was addressing all of us slaves on Massa Obama’s government owned plantation.

So yes, telling a black man to step-n-fetchit is racist, in that it tells him to adopt the role of a racial stereotype.

Um, the guy told OW, who is black, to “step-n-fetchit”. That’s racist.
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Um, the guy told OW, who is black, to “step-n-fetchit”. That’s racist.

This guy is a racist, no doubt, but, Um, does this mean that calling all well-known black conservatives “minstrel toadies”, which OW does regularly, is racist too, Buffalopundit?

Please explain, popular blogger.

Rick, you don’t see “massa” as racist?
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Not when Obama is the massa, and the rest of us are his government plantation slaves–black, white, latino, asian, etc.

However, I do think that at best it shows a callous disregard for our history of slavery and racism, and that from that callous disregard people are inferring a racist intent.

“Racism is the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.” [Wikipedia]

Republicans oddly don’t recognize that their party has capitalized on racist sentiment for political gain (the Southern Strategy), and thus don’t recognize that individually they are guilty of supporting a political party which has contributed to the maintenance of institutional racism.

But I also don’t see Conley’s statement as being inherently racist.