Answering your a.m. reply. Star Parker hit on something that I hadn’t thought of. She compared black conservatives to runaway slaves, and the reaction to them from other blacks stems from fears of the ostracism that comes with being conservative. The runaway slaves, when recaptured, were stripped naked and beat in front of the whole group of slaves as an object lesson. So if you dare to be a black conservative you will be treated like Clarence Thomas and nobody wants to go through that. That is why black conservatives are persecuted in public. Democrats make sure that the “slaves” understand the lesson that they dare not leave the plantation.