[Bob]

Black Americans are much more likely to listen and consider what black Republicans have to say...

That might be true for some blacks if their "leaders" weren't labeling those black Republicans as "Uncle Toms", sellouts, and Oreos.

[AmericanSamurai]

That might be true for some blacks if their “leaders” weren’t labeling those black Republicans as “Uncle Toms”, sellouts, and Oreos.

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Yeah no kidding. They don’t want to come off as the whitewashed Carlton from the tv show Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Nor do they want to be perceived as “the Black friend” of affluent White Conservatives.