Ken Burch
1 min readJun 26, 2021

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Black conservatives are perpetuating white supremacy- the only reason ANY black conservative ever appears on Fox or OAN, or NewsMax or at any right-wing gathering is to be given the white supremacist job of collectively shaming the black community.

Look at the early career of Clarence Thomas- the man got his big break on the right-wing speaking circuit, which led to his rise through various jobs in the Reagan and Bush The First administrations because he gave a speech slandering his own family- he characterized his sister as a "welfare mother' and implied that she and her grown children never worked or even tried to get work- the truth is, his sister was only on welfare for a couple of years, and only because she had to quit her job to take care of the elderly relatives Thomas could no longer take care of- as he had done before, to be fair- because he had been admitted to law school under the kind of affirmative action program he would later devote his public career to trying to destroy..

That's what being a black conservative is all about- not doing anything whatsoever to help the black community, but simply berating and shaming it in order to get paid by the white conservatives whose entire political project depends on black people BEING shamed and, ultimately, being officially declared worthless and stripped of the vote and all other rights by the rapidly vanishing white majority.

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Ken Burch
Ken Burch

Written by Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.

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