Respectable Negroes Don't Like The Right's Ben Carson

Give me strength.

I watched Ben Carson's CPAC speech last night and wasn't impressed - the man's hardly electrifying. But I noticed Chauncey DeVega (of the blog We Are Respectable Negroes) watched it, too, and he really ain't havin' it. 

This is how the drafting of Ben Carson looks to blacks.

He ain't havin' it, he ain't havin' it, and, as far as he's concerned, this-will-not-stand:

 "Carson's role,...a black human mascot and cheerleader for the White Right,...

...Ben Carson’s fulfilling of the Republican Party’s fantasy that African-Americans are somehow hoodwinked and bamboozled in their decades of support for the Democratic Party is the first lie.

Here, Republicans, movement conservatives, and the White Right have reframed centuries of black citizenship and struggles for freedom into a narrative wherein African-Americans are dumb, stupid, and childlike.

Apparently, African-Americans are not reasoning and sophisticated citizens capable of making their own decisions in the service of collective self-interest. No. They are stuck on a “plantation” and need black conservatives such as Ben Carson and Herman Cain to rescue them.

...Carson is a placebo, a fake drug and a high, a salve for Republicans. His purpose, like that of other black conservatives, is to be human chaff, an ointment, which relieves them from the mountain of evidence and charges that the Republican Party is a racist organization.

This is NOT the version of "Good Times" I'm used to watching.

A placebo? Wow - a homeopathy metaphor! I like this guy. It IS funny how the very people who claim not to see race, all of a sudden, have found a black man to run with their philosophy - and they know it's an obviously hypocritical race play (and an attempt at racial manipulation) but, desperate, they're plowing ahead anyway, no matter how it looks.

"The case for Carson is all about math and race. Carson is African-American and his supporters think that will be his path to victory."

This black? Good luck with that.

Whites (and Ben Carson himself) seem confused. Sure, blacks notice when a new player is on the field, but it's not like we see another face like ours and lose our minds. It's insulting. Any black person will see through it. And - especially because of that - Ben Carson will appeal to very few.

All aboard the night train!

Hell, considering the readership of We Are Respectable Negroes - and TMR - it appears he's lost more than few already,…