youthathletics wrote:Curious....why are there no articles on any major news networks website about the Young Black Conservative Summit held this week? If you do a google search, it gets buried on youtube channels or lower tier news platforms.
It's not even on the Fox website. I searched terms on every major news website and notta'. Any ideas why?
You might want to work on your google skills, youth. Fox has plenty, NBC as well. I didn't google all the networks, just those 2 as a sample
https://www.google.com/search?client=sa ... Vr64vwA8bM
https://www.google.com/search?client=sa ... 8&oe=UTF-8
But why not even more MSM coverage? Well, perhaps 200 black conservatives going to the White House is dwarfed by lots and lots of other stories, Khashoggi, bombs all week, Trump rallies, etc and isn't really deemed all that newsworthy.
Reading between the lines of your question, let me say that I think it is reasonable to argue that there is an 'industry' on the left that raises money and personal brand around being activists, including racial activists. Some of these people have used these issues for personal aggrandizement and wealth. Likewise, there are those who have used their race and conservative alignment with gaining favor and wealth. Also, an "industry" of such.
I don't condone, in any measure, the sort of hateful name calling that we see on Twitter about "house N-word" or "Uncle Toms" or "boot-lickers" but I do think that there are conservative black folks who use their skin color and politics to gain favor and wealth, approval from the power structure. My sense is that's true of many in this particular group, given that Trump's behavior and that of his hard-right supporters is so egregious that their denial of that reality beggars belief.
In normal times, as a Republican who believes that it is essential for the GOP to become far more inclusive, I would welcome young black conservatives to visit, say, either of the Bush White Houses, the Reagan White House etc. Same for black moderates and liberals, for that matter.
But then, I'm much more in the Jack Kemp mold of Republican than the Newt Gingrich mold. Unfortunately, the latter mold is currently ascendant in the GOP, whose leader continues to fail to reject the hate-filled bigotry of its avowed hard right, white supremacist supporters. The Bushes and Reagan were certainly imperfect in this arena, but they were unequivocal and entirely consistent in disavowing David Duke, the KKK, and like hate groups.
So, black conservatives going to the Trump White House and praising Trump rather than confronting his encouragement of the hate-groups, hard to see this as other than sucking up to power for personal gain.
