The black conservative is responsible for making people question an idea that racism must be extinct before black people can overcome. Understanding that our goal is to thrive despite racism rather than fetishizing it is, in fact, the central ideological plank of people deemed "black conservatives." This is a coherent position, but that can be hard to perceive, given the way that race has been discussed in our land over the past 40 years or so.

Obama is seen as very, very cool. I think a lot of people find him sexy.

Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases.

Every third person in the world is a drama queen. And crying 'victim,' especially when you're not really a victim in any real way, feels good. It feels good to cry victim if you're not one.

If you took away the color of Barack Obama's skin, nobody right now would be paying him any attention.

I don't think that we really know a whole lot about Barack Obama at all that you would really call distinctive.

We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.