[rdb3]

It is hard to find a single person who is known as a "black conservative" who is in fact in favor of preserving the status quo, much less going back to the previous status quo.

I agree with Dr. Sowell here. Words mean things, so I never took to holding the "conservative" label.

Self-professed "conservatives" that I am familiar with are not a problem. But what does one seek to conserve?

There's nothing that I seek to conserve. Society has ventured to far to the left that I definitely do not seek to conserve the status quo. Many things now need to be completely uprooted and cast aside, so we can start from scratch with the founding documents of the United States as our guide.

When I think about it, the NAACP is a conservative group. They want to conserve the status quo and then some.

[AQGeiger]

Exactly. If one considers the literal meanings of the words "conservative" and "liberal" and the current goings-on in American society, they find that liberals are the real conservatives and conservatives are the real liberals.

But I'm pretty sure that the person who first created the designations was a liberal. The words themselves do send messaged, regardless of the facts.