The first person to say, on TV, what we ALL must've noticed:

[jenmito]

Eric Deggans, a Black media critic who was on CNN'S Reliable Sources said, "...There are way more Black Conservatives on television than there are actually, proportionately Black Conservatives in the Black community..."

He said this after Amy Holmes, Black Conservative commentator, said SHE felt it ISN'T harder for HER, as a Black woman, to compete in the media. Deggans came right out and started by saying the reason she is on TV is because she's a Black Conservative. How true.

[boppers]

1. Actually, I hadn't noticed.

But, upon seeing this post, I had a "HOLY SHIT! HOW COULD I HAVE MISSED THAT!" reaction...

[jenmito]

2. It's true...

and did you notice that after the NAACP called on the teabaggers to condemn racist elements of the tea party, all the major networks had BLACK teabaggers on to "refutiate" that there are ANY racists in the party?

[Ross K]

14. Black Teabaggers

All two of them!

[jenmito]

17. That's right...

but by the way the media props them up to represent the teabaggers, you'd think they made up about half of the party!

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Same here

It's really true.

But the more I think about it, not surprising.

[tabasco]

3. The corporate whore media must be destroyed.

It helps to keep us as slaves.

[panader0]

4. Very true

Before Colin Powell and Sleazy Rice, I didn't know there were black republicans. It's weird, my So's family (Texas panhandle) is anti-Obama because he's black. They would vote for a repub, even though the Democratic platform benefits them so much more. I swear, Rush Limbaugh has an effect on these people. Poor people, people of color, people of peace, and people who care about the environment should all be Democrats.

[ThomThom]

16. don't forget Justice Thomas

[MadMaddie]

6. That's a very good point!

[vaberella]

7. I utterly dislike Amy Holmes on every front and he's correct. I tolerate her for her hair. n/t

[jenmito]

8. "I tolerate her for her hair."

:rofl:

[vaberella]

11. ...

:rofl:

[senseandsensibility]

9. Agree.

It's like these "conservative" women. Don't get it.

[QC]

10. This is standard practice in the corporate media:

find a member of a minority who agrees with the establishment and send him or her out to say the things the establishment would like to say but cannot for fear of appearing bigoted.

For many years, Andrew Sullivan and Camille Paglia, both of them reactionaries, were treated as The Official Voices of Gay America by the corporate media. No one outside the community would ever have known that those two represent the fringe, because CNN et. al had them on speed dial. "We're doing another gay story. Quick, somebody call Sullivan!"

The Village Voice did a great article in 2001 about this practice: http://www.villagevoice.com/2001-06-19/news/the-real-andrew-sullivan-scandal/

Nothing has changed since then.

[tavalon]

12. I noticed years ago but I attributed it to a belief I have that blacks are usually more dignified

than whites (and yes, that's a generalization) and so they wouldn't become talking heads, AKA, buffoons. I just figured being Republican overshadowed the usual tendency to be dignified. Hence, no Democratic talking heads but a few Republican talking heads. So, I had noticed but I had different reasoning.

[eppur_se_muova]

13. No shortage of "storefront Negroes" on the right . nt

[Solomon]

15. LOL All I can say to this post is "D'uh"

All of us african-americans have known for decades that the quickest way to success is to become a "black republican", or "black conservative", etc. There's almost no competition at all. I watched several african-americans lawyers switch their party affiliation to republican when Bush was in office so that they could get on the bench. It's a well-known fact that you can get ahead much quicker by playing that game. Most of us still have integrity however.