Uncle Tom is an offensive term frequently hurled at blacks who openly identify as conservative, (although if most black people read the book, they’d understand the character to be anything but what they’ve been led to believe).

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By Raheem “Rocky” Williams

There is an incredibly strong anti-intellectualism among some within the black community and this manifest itself into an outright hate towards black conservatives. This shows through the rejection of decorated conservative black scholars in the National Museum of African American History in D.C. This disdain is built on the false and dated separatist dichotomy of the “us” versus “them” that remains as remnants of yesteryear and in some cases this flawed ideology has been passed down like an inheritance. Some blacks are seemingly taught to hate white conservatives and by matter of association any blacks who identify as conservative.

Radical democrats propagate the myth of turncoat black conservatives to maintain black support while actually doing little to nothing to improve the lives of black people — just take a glance at the inner cities that dems have ran for decades. Despite a very grand history within the G.O.P dating back to the Era of Reconstruction, blacks left the party in mass during the post-civil rights realignment which birthed the notion which may have been true but has since become myth. It is taught that during the fight for equal rights the democrats shed their racist dixiecrats, who went on to join the G.O.P. This has been a strong factor in keeping most blacks firmly in the Democratic Party and away from the G.O.P ever since. This realignment is commonly thought to have taken place after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and was completed when President Reagan pulled what was left of the dixiecrats into the Republican Party turning the American South firmly red.

However, the Civil Rights Movement was too momentous for even southern conservatives to ignore. Everyone had to adopt to the new reality. Their kids would eventually go on to attend schools with people of color, join an integrated military, and learn to work with people of color. Just like famed Democratic Senator and Klansman Robert Byrd grew to accept a new racial reality, so did many other Southern Conservatives.

However, one would be foolish to deny the existence of racism within the Republican Party, but modern conservatives have clearly rejected racism, relegating it to the odd world of the “alt-right”.

If you look to the South today it’s very clear that the dixiecrats who abandoned the Democratic Party out of fear of racial equality are too old to be relevant, dead or too ignorant to be a serious threat to black prosperity (i.e. trailer trash). The propagation of the belief that conservatives nationwide — are hidden racists that dog whistle through policy serves the interest of the Democratic party more so than the actual reality any of us live in.

Today, the election of people of color by southern conservatives is at odds with the commonly held myth of a massive population of secret racists conspiring against people of color within the G.O.P.

For example, Tim Scott is one of four black senators currently in the U.S Senate. He represent The State of South Carolina, which is known for its historic racist past. Scott ran unopposed in the state primaries and was elected by a large margin over his opponent.

Why would secret racists, who hate the idea of racial equality support in mass a black candidate. To add to it, not one of these secret racists thought to challenge him? Likewise, why would the same group of secret racists (and arguably misogynists) elect an Indian woman named Nikki Haley to run their state?

Is it possible that in the years since the civil rights movement there is just substantially less racists in the G.O.P, maybe even southern white conservatives have slowly come to accept people of color? These aren’t oddities. Similar arguments can be made for southern white support for Cuban Ted Cruz, who represent Texas, another state well known for its racist past.

During the 2016 election year, former (maybe still is?) Klansman David Duke ran for the Senate in Louisiana on protecting white interest and got less than 3% of the vote during the republican primaries; The same state a few years prior elected a very brown Indian American named Bobby Jindal to the governorship.

Consider Black Republican Congresswoman Mia Love, whose district is about as white as snow and filled with Mormons who are known for their faithfulness to a church with a blatantly racist past.

Why are the secret racist supporting the people they are supposed to hate? Surely South Carolina and Louisiana should be oozing with the undercover racist conservatives, where else could they be?

Why are these hidden racist rejecting the people they are supposed to love (David Duke) but have no issue embracing brown people? The Voting booth is a secret ballot, it would be the perfect place to show hate in a guilt free fashion.

The Myth of Dog-Whistling

Some are quick to point to mass incarnation as evidence of the hidden racist agenda while ignoring key elements that led to it. They will note the Clinton Crime Bill that led to the incarnation of millions of blacks but stop shy of arguing that Bill Clinton is a racist for signing it; nor would they apply the title racist to his wife who called African-American youth super predators. They ignore the fact that the hyped up War on drugs was in part a reaction from the very real black victims of the crack cocaine epidemic. They ignore the fact that black community elders often supported tough on crime laws because they were sick of being the victims of crackheads.

It’s time Black Americans and all people of color get past this ignorant notion that American conservatism is inherently racist. The Democratic party has a well-documented racist past. Black Americans are quick to note that past doesn’t reflect the party today. Maybe it’s time all people of color consider that the same might be true for the G.O.P.

It’s time to question the narrative and at the very least recognize the Black conservatives and libertarians mean well even if you see their worldview as flawed.

Before you reject the works of Thomas Sowell and Walter E Williams, pick up something they wrote and actually read it.

As a black conservative, I live knowing that my community will gladly accept a rapper who advocate the casual slaughter of black youth before they embrace me.

As a Black conservative, I live knowing my community would rather see a million black babies slaughtered in a Planned Parenthood Clinic before they accept me.

As a Black conservative, I’m treated with more disgust and disdain than the dead-beat black dads that abandoned black women to single motherhood.

As a Black conservative, I live knowing a stripper will be recognized before me, even if I make it all the way to the supreme court.

It’s a very vile reality that many have been wrongfully taught to view me as the enemy.