You say this as though speaking the truth is a bad thing. If I were you I would reconsider my own thoughts on the matter and try to understand why I think that way. Oh, and nice with the Colin Powell reference. You couldn’t think of Mia Love or any other black conservative? Only one who has fallen out of disfavor with conservatives because he is not a conservative? A rather pathetic attempt overall.
Have you stopped beating your wife? That’s the rhetorical equivalent of the racism accusation in today’s political landscape.
The Left can keep Republicans tied up in knots with the accusation, and have done so for a couple of decades. 20 years ago the retort was Colin Powell, and it didn’t matter. 10 years ago it was J.C. Watts, and it didn’t matter. The RNC selected a black man to run it, and it didn’t matter. Now it’s Mia Love, and it doesn’t matter. The Left makes the accusation, and responding to it simply validates it.
Yes, yes, MLK was a Republican, so was Jackie Robinson, Lincoln freed the slaves, the Civil Rights Act needed the GOP to pass; Robert Byrd was an actual Klansman, Joe Biden says racially insensitive things all the time, Hillary Clinton ain’t noways tard. I’ve been hearing the same defenses to the same charge my entire life. It has had ZERO impact. None. The charge is still made, and blacks still vote Democrat at a rate of about 95%. There’s not much point in spending a lot of energy on it. Hank Aaron is a stupid person who should be ignored right after he is correctly called an idiot.
Maybe if you explain your support of Mia Love or Ben Carson to them one more time they will stop calling you a racist. Yeah, get back to me on how that works out for you.
“If I were you I would reconsider my own thoughts on the matter and try to understand why I think that way.”
To sum it up, I think this way because of my observations of the same defenses to the same charge over the course of many years. Republicans spend a great deal of time defending themselves, they gain nothing in the defense, and the Left gains the activation of its base by making the accusation. A better way to handle it would be to expose the tactic for what it is: a distraction. There, was the the deep introspection you were recommending for me, or were you going for something else?