Candace Owens under attack: Pro-Trump Black conservatives go to war -- against each other
Realm of Black MAGA roiled by infighting as foes compare Candace Owens to Rachel Dolezal (and the Fresh Prince)
By ZACHARY PETRIZZO
MARCH 28, 2021 9:00AM (UTC)
In the strange and isolated realm of MAGA-loving Black activists, at least two groups are at war with one another, and insults are flying with no end in sight. Maj Toure, founder of a right-wing group called Black Guns Matter — whose legal name is Martin A. Jones — and his allies are at war with better-known Black conservative activists Candace Owens and Brandon Tatum. This conflict appears to have been brewing under the surface for some time but broke into the public sphere after a panel discussion led by Toure at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando last month.
The apparent rift between the activists centers around claims that Owens and Tatum can't relate to the African-American communities because they aim their rhetoric almost entirely at white conservatives. Furthermore, activists on Toure's team have framed their argument through a difficult-to-follow analogy drawn from the classic sitcom "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," perhaps in an effort to ensure that white people don't know what they're talking about.
"There's not just one type of Black conservative, and I feel like that's where we have failed over the past four years; we propped up one type of Black conservative," panelist and commentator Shemeka Michelle stated at the CPAC gathering in late February. "And just because white people like them, it was like, 'Oh yeah, we love her. Oh, she has her own thinking.'
"A lot of people are familiar with The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," Michelle continued. "Just say, Carlton [Banks] and Will [Smith] were both conservatives. Carlton could go to Bel-Air, and he could talk to the people of Bel-Air all day long, but you could not send Carlton to Philly to talk to those people. You would have had to send Will, who had the same type of life experiences that Will had. So when it comes to being conservative, stop propping up Carlton Banks thinking that Carlton is going to be the one to be able to communicate with the Wills of the conservative party."
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how they see the world, how they react.
These guys are strong conservatives and naturally politically motivated, aggressively too. Like white cons, they're not exactly in sympathy with the liberalism of the Democratic Party. These're apparently apparently too disgusted and angered by it, and strong in their rejection, to even join fellow black conservatives there.
And look where that leaves them.
If minority conservatives were to flood into the Republican Party along with their "fellow" white cons, they could force huge and immediate change, make it as diverse as the liberal party. Nothing to stop them. Of course, how'd that fairy tale end, with all the hard-core bigots and hatemongers among them gathered in one big tent?
Definitely for the best that they haven't, even temporarily, but hard on people like this.
