Republicans Using Black Conservatives to Attack Obama

Has anyone noticed the surprising number of African Americans on TV representing the conservative end of the Republican Party, touting the wonders of John McCain and the horrors of Barack Obama? In all my years of watching cable news and listening to Republican pundits, never before have I seen so many black conservatives paraded across my television screen. Joe Watkins, Larry Elder, Ron Christie and other black conservatives, have taken out of hiding and propped up on TV to support a white man against a black man.

There’s an old saying among black folks. When whites really want to attack a black man and keep their hands clean, they get another black person to do it. It legitimizes the attack. White pundits can only ask vague coded questions about the readiness of Americans to vote for an African American candidate. To go for the juggler and use Obama’s race against him they need someone who won’t be restrained by would be accusations of abject racism. They need a black person. Conservative black pundits have no such restraints. They can say on TV what whites can’t say. While white pundits can’t get on TV and say that whites are not going to vote for a black man period, but the black pundits can.

Joe Watkins went on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and said, “White people are running away from Barack Obama in droves,” a white Republican pundit wouldn’t be able to do in such blunt terms. Watkins who has been a rabid attack dog used against Obama, seems to be making it personal with Watkins, he doesn’t just want to defeat Obama, he, wants to destroy him. When the Reverend Wright story broke Watkins worked overtime appearing on all of the three top cable news channels CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News, condemning Obama as a closet racist. Watkins has also accused Obama of trying to start a race war. On August 1st Watkins was asked to give his impression of how Obama handled hecklers in St. Petersburg, Fl., Joe started off by saying that Obama handled the situation the right way, then veered way off the highway by adding, “I only wish he would handle John McCain the same way instead of trying to turn this into a race war.” I had to do a Scooby Do! What did he just say? Did he just accuse a presidential candidate of trying to start a “race war?” He went on to say that Obama was “Waging a Race War,” rather than a presidential campaign.

Larry Elder another black conservative has not only married Obama to Reverend Wright but to Louis Farrakhan, as well, stating that the church that Obama attended for 20 years assisted Farrakhan in organizing the Million Man March alluding that Obama, himself was involved.

None of this is new of course, as the country waged the civil war to free the slaves, it was the house slaves who took up arms to protect their white slave masters, and the institution of slavery, sleeping literally at the foot of the bed with guns in hand.

So it is today with Watkins, Elders, and Christie, house slaves protecting the masters. Christie was a house slave who worked for Vice President Dick Cheney as deputy assistant for domestic policy. Watkins also worked in the house as associate director in the Office Public Liaison at the White House under President George HW Bush as well as being the staff of Dan Quayle and Larry Elder who wrote the book “Stupid Black Men, How to Play the Race Card and lose.”

Food for thought; if Joe Watkins a black man had got on TV and called the Loyola women’s basketball team “nappy headed hos,” no one would have raised a brow, but because a white man Don Imus said it, a firestorm was set and Imus was fired. What do you think? Let me know in the comments below.