Conservatives too quick to raise any celebrity minority to hero status that doesn't buy the liberal thing hook line and sinker. Today's conservatives are as enamored by celebrity as the rest of the culture. My observation comes by what we are seeing with Kanye West's seeming backing off his political stand.
The glee of conservative types when Kanye donned the #MAGA hat and hugged the president was that of a school girl meeting their celebrity crush. White conservatives even started calling Kanye West, "The Face of the Black Conservative Movement!"
Anyone ever heard of these people?
Walter E. Williams, Thomas Sowell, Alfonzo Rachel, Shirley Husar, Star Parker, Jessie Lee Peterson, C.L. Bryant and countless others that have been on the frontlines of the Black Conservative movement for years. Brothers and Sisters that have put in the work. But it is Kanye that steals the headlines and gets the attention?
The practice of awarding insta-hero status is folly and insulting to people that do the work every day in places the White conservatives don't have the nerve to go to or talk to people that White conservatives have ignored for years.