Oh, please.
Sowell, Williams, Rice, Thomas and Powell got the message after it was introduced to them.
They didn't go out and seek it to begin with. I'm sorry, the average black person is not going to go out with the mindset of "Let me go see what the GOP has today." Especially since the mainstream media and the race warlords are playing on their worst fears and personal prejudices in order to maintain the veil of secrecy and division between the two groups.
The poverty pimps and the networks are the ones "delivering the conservative message now." Don't fool yourself into thinking they aren't. Just watch and listen to what they say about us. That we're evil. That we only want to help the rich. That those of us who happen to be black have sold our souls for "crumbs from the master's table."
If anyone's pandering, they are! I don't know about you, but I don't want them delivering my message for me. But if we don't want that, then we have to take our message to them! Notice that I said nothing of promising them rose gardens or free money. We don't need to compromise our integrity or our principles in order to tell the truth.
You want a gut check? You got one - step back. Think. If you want to include the best and brightest in America, then give them the truth. Take the truth to them. Let them decide.
Like I said, it's GUT CHECK time. If conservatives who claim they're "principled" truly are, then they most certainly wouldn't have any fear of taking the conservative message directly to black voters. Right?