Racial leveraging?

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High Profile Black Conservatives

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Limbaugh invites Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams to fill in for him from time to time, two formidable and articulate black scholars. We see Michael Steele often because he is head of the RNC. But I rarely see black conservatives on TV talk shows: Marcus Lloyd (who we do see at tea parties, however); Frances Rice; Mason Weaver etc. These black conservatives seem to me to be some of the bravest people in politics, and some of the most passionate critics of the president and lovers of the Constitution. Rice has gone to great lengths to explain to other blacks that the Democrats have been the real racists over the years. Weaver has a book out called It’s OK to Leave the Plantation. Marcus Lloyd proudly rejects a hyphenation of himself as an “African-American,” preferring only “American.”

I get the feeling that people like Hannity do not have folks like these on too often because he is afraid there will be an accusation of subtly playing the race card, i.e. “trotting out” these people to racially leverage conservative rhetoric. Or am I just overanalyzing?

[markomalley]

Well, I see Michael Steele on Hannity on a regular basis. I see Star Parker on a regular basis. J.C. Watts used to be on Hannity and Colmes regularly, but he has a contract now with CNN, from what I understand.

And the GOP regularly provides their “political consultants” of various ethnicities on Fox programs. Not big names, but still “diverse.” But I think the GOP sends the consultant, not Fox requesting the consultant.

So I would think you are overanalyzing.