I am not arguing that. However, we cannot dismiss the conservatives among them. I have neighbors who are Hispanic Catholics, gun owners, and enthusiastic Cruz supporters. Even if people like them are only 20% of the minority population, they are worth having on our side.
MLK was an America-hating leftist. We as conservatives should want nothing to do with his "traditions."
His call to judge others by the content of their character and not the color of their skin was (1) the correct moral and practical standard, and (2) a good political line to use in opposing racist policies such as affirmative action.
How long has it been since Republicans actually opposed racial preferences? The establishment either sat on their hands or actively opposed the ballot initiative in Michigan a decade ago that banned preferences in that state. It was funny then when the initiative passed overwhelmingly even as the GOP got shellacked that year.
The GOP doesn’t even pay lip service to opposing racial preferences anymore. Their corporate masters favor it, and so they keep silent and do nothing. Plus they have bought into the new official state religion of Diversity, so why would they oppose preferences. That it is absolutely insane to have policies of racial preferences, and an immigration policy that brings in millions who are eligible for those preferences seems not to have crossed the minds of the GOP leadership, or even of grassroots heroes like Cruz and Walker.