[Alberta's Child]

That's an excellent point you make. You never hear anyone calling for "white leadership," whatever the hell that's supposed to mean anyway.

In my opinion, black conservatives are so maligned by other people of their own race because there is nothing more "counter-cultural" than a black conservative. The Irish lived in this country for nearly 150 years before it became acceptable (but not common!) for Irish-Americans to admit that they voted for Republicans. Once the blue-collar union generation began to retire, and their children had grown up as professionals, then the inter-generational tension toned down quite a bit.

[sweetliberty]

"You never hear anyone calling for "white leadership,"

And if you dared to try you would immediately be branded a racist by those very people who talk about black leadership. Not only that, they would also fail to see any hypocrisy in it.