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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15. So Carson will be a "real black president" and Cosby offers valuable lesson in "personal responsibility"
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16. As a press baron, Murdoch is of course used to having employees who echo & amplify his views, whether white or black.
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17. But once absorbed by Fox News ideological apparatus, self-empowerment is no longer response to oppression but validation of system
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18. What does Murdoch mean by "properly address the racial divide." Having black POTOUS telling blacks to stop complaining & work hard
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19. I can't emphasize enough that the trajectory of black conservatism is tragic, because in its older form this is a valuable tradition.
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20. Paradoxically, the salutary pessimism of black conservatism now most productively lives in radical writers like @tanehisicoates
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21. Fox News has poisoned so much but not least among its sins is the way it corrupted black conservatism.
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22. Last thought: in alternative universe where GOP didn't adopt Southern Strategy in 1964, older black conservatism would flourish in party
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