1. Embarrassing recycled Walter Williams article about @tanehisicoates & reparations got me thinking on state of black conservatism.
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2. Back in the 1990s, I thought small contingent of black conservatives (Tom Sowell, Lowry, Steele) were most interesting formation on right
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3. What black conservatives had going for them was they had to grapple with experiences/history that tends to challenge rightwing orthodoxy
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4. So there was an interesting tension in black conservative thought, which made it more grounded in reality than standard right bromide.
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5. That grounding in reality has started to slip in the last decade, especially after election of Obama.
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6. Thing is, thinkers like Sowell were part of a genuine African-American intellectual tradition going back to at least late 19th century.
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7. As part of the Booker T. Washington tradition, Sowell & Co. weren't just addressing just address a white audience but also a black one.
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8. At least since 2008 and actually a bit earlier, it feels like Sowell, Steele etc are no longer addressing black audience,
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9. Reading Sowell and particularly Walter Williams, their address now is really at white conservatives, which is fatal for their position.
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@HeerJeet that the audience is mostly white conservatives makes stuff like this extra-awful: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61627.html …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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