3. White conservatism in America is based on a sense of triumphialism: Reagan's City on A Hill as beacon for the world.
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4. Black conservatism has no such triumphalism. It is pessimistic, emphasizing not individual triumph but group survival through adversity.
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5. Emphasis in black conservative tradition on self-help & personal responsibility based on idea that white America will never give an inch
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6. This black conservatism is a scattered tradition but you can find strands in Garvey, Zora Neale Hurston, Nation of Islam, etc.
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7. If tradition began with Booker T. Washington, it finds culmination in Clarence Thomas as I note here:http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122250/clarence-thomas-deserves-criticism-just-leave-his-race-out-it …
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8. But there's a big difference in tradition from beginning to end. At start black conservatives addressed their message to fellow blacks.
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9. A Booker T. Washington or Marcus Garvey, although making gestures to wider white culture, was talking to blacks & laying out a plan.
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10. There's a difference between BT Washington preaching self-improvement to blacks & Ben Carson saying the same to Fox News audience.
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11. Old black conservatives: we can't rely on whites. New black conservatives: I'm one of the good ones who doesn't need help.
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12 In addressing a white audience (basically Rupert Murdoch cloned into the millions) black conservatives offering consoling message.
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13. Worth revisiting Murdoch's tweets about Carson & Crosby.https://twitter.com/rupertmurdoch/status/651924724960874497 …
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Jeet Heer Retweeted Rupert Murdoch
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15. So Carson will be a "real black president" and Cosby offers valuable lesson in "personal responsibility"
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