I knew it wouldn’t take long for liberal black intellectuals to weigh in on the historic election of the two black Republicans to Congress. The election of Representative-Elect Mia Love (R-Utah) and Senator Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) makes it more difficult for the liberals, mainly our esteemed black intellectuals, to continue their claim that Republicans are racist and America is still a racist country. When I came across an article titled "She Looks Black, but Her Politics Are Red: What Mia Love's Victory Means for the Face of the GOP" in the Huffington Post, I thought to myself, here we go. The author, Darron T. Smith, Ph.D. certainly did not disappoint. His bio states that he is a professor and received his doctoral degree from the University of Utah in the Department of Education, Culture and Society.
Although he mentioned other black Republicans in the article, his focus was Mia Love. In an attempt to throw cold water on her historic election and to remind black people that the Republican Party is still racist, Dr. Smith claims that Mia Love is just window dressing. What I find perplexing about his claim is why it is that he and other black liberals think that the Republican Party needs tokens and window dressings? Is it something he learned from being window dressing for the Democrat Party?
(Dr. Smith):
This pattern of using blacks to further white interests was foundational in the emergence of American society and has been carried forth with each proceeding generation, whether blacks are used physically or, in this case, symbolically. In the end, however, her new role as a freshman GOP congresswoman serves more as window dressing for the red states and is unlikely to result in a shift of more blacks to a party that continues to relegate them to the borders of society.(American Thinker)
