“token black GOP”??? Are you trying to give ammunition to the other side? Nice openly racist comment. The last thing conservatives need are posts like yours.
The last thing we need is RINO steel...
Oh shut your piehole, you 2 month old, non-paying newbie...
He’s the token black conservative and a RINO. If you’ve been paying any attention NEWBIE...80% of Freepers in every thread are disgusted with the token black liberal guilt chosen leader.
Nice try TROLL.
In all fairness to max, his statement is analytically similar to Rush’s ESPN comments. Technically, he is not being racist; he is describing GOP racism. If Steele was chosen, not because he was absolutely the best person for the job, but because it was thought his skin color would help pull in black votes, then that is where the real racism lies, and not with max. The problem is that for most people, this type of analysis is too cumbersome. It is far easier to blindly launch off the mere presence of certain keywords as triggers to the charge of racism. Therefore, you are also correct, in that statements such as max made do tend to become ammunition against us, but only because the left is operating on Pavlovian principles of mass manipulation at an emotive rather than rational level, not because there is anything truly racist in what max said.