Raisin in the Pun

By Heru Ammen Black Conservatism is defined, fomented and implemented by right wing, white Republicans. The talking points for Black conservatives is point for point, idea for idea, measure for measure the same as the talking points one would hear from hate speech divas on the right such as Limbaugh, Coulter, Hannity or Beck. It appears to this writer that traditional black conservatives are primarily motivated by a need to find favor with and derive income from their conservative white counterparts. By parroting the right-wing mantra of white-conservative Christianism and economics, the black conservative has become the tool of the right wing machine and a foolish and willing pawn in the game of racial politics perpetuated upon the greater African American community by the right wing conservative movement. Things are no better for our left leaning brothers and sisters. Black liberals fail to effectively address the issues that have plagued our poorer communities for decades.

By Heru-Ammen Cornel West, Tavis Smiley and Dr. Boyce Watkins all have three things in common. They are African American, they believe they have some relevancy in and influence on the Greater African American Community and all of them are overt and consistent critics of President Barrack Obama. Their main complaint is that President Obama doesn’t do anything and/or enough for African Americans. They and their apologists also believe that anyone supporting President Obama does so because he is an (and the first) African American President and his supporters are just Land-o-Goshen tickled pink, black, brown, beige, red and tan to have an African American in the White House and aren’t sophisticated enough to see and agree with the complaints West and company offers to the greater African American community with their diatribes against President Obama. The arrogance of their position would be laughable if the stakes weren’t so high. President Obama ended the war in Iraq. The Afghanista