Another Diversity Embarrassment

Herschel Walker would not have gotten the GOP nomination if he were white. The Walker candidacy shows it’s not just the Democrats who fall victim to the “soft bigotry of low expectations.”

During the campaign, it came out that he had three illegitimate children he had never publicly acknowledged. His one legitimate son taunted his apparently absentee father after yesterday’s defeat.

This is almost like a comedy written by a race realist.

What was the point of his nomination? Once again, Republicans convinced themselves that a black Republican could win over black voters. Instead, heavy black turnout helped Senator Warnock.

None of this is to defend Senator Warnock. His clownish black liberation theology is even more insufferable given its self-righteousness. Though media keep telling us the GOP is filled with “Christian Nationalism,” it’s not the Republican Party which has a race-conscious Baptist pastor rallying the faithful from public office.

It’s time for whites to stop giving blacks unearned political power. Groveling is embarrassing, dishonorable, and demoralizing, but that’s not the worst of it. It doesn’t work. Blacks won’t support black conservatives. They don’t support a movement that (rhetorically at least) opposes reparations and welfare, and backs the police. Some blacks whom the GOP desperately promoted to prove they weren’t racist, like former GOP Chairman Michael Steele or Secretary of State Colin Powell, turned against the party later for not being pro-black enough.

If a black Republican does succeed, it’s because white voters back him. It sometimes seems white conservatives support a black candidate simply because he’s black. Black Democrats do the same, but that’s part of normal race-consciousness. White conservatives are embarrassed, indignant, or most likely afraid to admit they have racial interests. They are spiritually defeated. They need a black face to give them permission to take their own side — but get no credit for it.