Liberal Racists

Here's another instance of a liberal engaging in racial slurs to attack black conservatives. Because Claude Allen is a Republican, he's fair game for Trey Ellis.

When you read Ellis' piece, picture a conservative columnist, such as Charles Krauthammer, writing something akin to this racist drivel. It's virtually impossible to imagine.

In "When Black Republicans Go Bad," Ellis writes:

Why are we so surprised that Claude Allen, until recently the President's chief domestic policy advisor, is being accused of scamming Target out of over $5000? He's a black man who got his start working for Jesse Helms, the former Senator who had the delightful habit of calling all black people, "Fred."

Using Ellis' logic, I guess it's a good thing that Allen didn't start out working for Dem Robert Byrd, with all his "delightful" KKK habits.

The mind reels.

Man, what I wouldn't give to be Claude Allen's shrink. The inside of his brain must look like Saigon in the last days of the war ("We shall overcome! / Shut up, nigger. / Who you calling nigger? / Did I say, "nigger." I meant, "Fred.").

Very nice, Trey. Very nice.

There must be something about being a black Republican that drives you a little batty. Just look at Allen's comrades in arms Allen Keyes and Clarence Thomas. I mean, who in their right mind sees pubic hairs in a can of Coke?

Being a black Republican must drive one a little batty?

How hateful and offensive!

Many black Republicans, it seems, stake out ultra-right-wing positions perhaps to prove their bona fides to their white superiors. Claude Allen, while working for Helms, accused Helms' then opponent of being linked to "queers," and, according to the Washington Post, "once he kept Medicaid funds from an impoverished rape victim who wanted an abortion." And time and time again Justice Thomas has proven to be just an echo chamber, a double vote, for his intellectual overseer Justice Scalia.

Ellis' armchair psychoanalysis is not only goofy and ill-informed, it's blatantly racist.

He suggests that because Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is black, he votes like Scalia.

Ellis is actually saying that Thomas does not think for himself. His decisions on the Court are based on feelings of inadequacy, rather than logic and sound law. He's not interpreting the Constitution. No. Thomas just wants to please Scalia, his intellectual master on the SCOTUS plantation.

When is the Left going to give Clarence Thomas the respect that he deserves? I'm not holding my breath.

I've got it. Maybe black Republicans are like transvestites? Transvestites affect a hyper-femininity, their nails are always perfect, their bags always match their shoes. In the same way, many black Republicans, it seems, affect a "hyper-whiteness," staking out positions that even whites in the South grew out of in the Fifties.

"HYPER-WHITENESS"???

What exactly is "hyper-whiteness"? What does that mean? Does it mean conservative? Does it mean racist?

Whatever it means, Ellis certainly doesn't hesitate to make generalizations. Sounds sort of bigoted, doesn't it?

"Sort of bigoted" is an understatement. Ellis is shockingly racist.

Ellis slams black Republicans and whites, and assigns transvestites with anal-retentive behavior.

I should be used to libs attacking blacks who make up their own minds and refuse to march in political lockstep with the majority of blacks by now.

I'm not. Every instance of this sort of racist blather disgusts me. Why is it that libs can attack black Republicans with impugnity?

No wonder every now and again they snap. Perhaps in Mr. Allen's warped ideology he associated petty criminality with "blackness" and he'd been in drag so long that he longed desperately to come "home." And remember Clarence Thomas also acted out, only in hyper-sexual ways, bragging to Anita Hill about the size of his schlong.

This is sick.

Ellis considers conservative thought a "warped ideology" that equates crime with being black. That is a completely unjustified attack.

Question for Ellis: How do you explain Jesse Jackson's history of acting out in "hyper-sexual ways"? Or Kobe Bryant's behavior? Or Mike Tyson's antics? Did they need to "come 'home'" as well?

According to Ellis' theory, they could be closet conservatives.

Ellis would be wise to consider the possibility that the poor choices each of these individuals made had nothing to do with race.


Mr. Allen, Justice Thomas, blackness isn't crime, violence and sexuality. Willie Horton isn't the sum of us. He's just how many on your side have summed us up.

Don't believe the hype.

Mr. Ellis, being black and being a Republican isn't a crime; although you seem to consider it an offense of the highest degree.

For Ellis to assert that many Republicans assume that blacks are like Willie Horton is an absolutely baseless attack.

Excuse me, Mr. Ellis.

Let's not forget this important point. It was Al Gore that raised the Willie Horton issue with Michael Dukakis during the 1988 primary.

Would it be fair to say that many Al Gore supporters sum up blacks as Willie Horton?

Of course not, but that's the reasoning that Ellis uses in his commentary on Claude Allen.