Cosby was wearing his standard uniform—dark sunglasses, loafers, a sweat suit emblazoned with the seal of an institution of higher learning. That night it was the University of Massachusetts, where he’d gotten his doctorate in education 30 years ago. He was preaching from the book of black self-reliance, a gospel that he has spent the past four years carrying across the country in a series of events that he bills as “call-outs.” “My problem,” Cosby told the audience, “is I’m tired of losing to white people. When I say I don’t care about white people, I mean let them say what they want to say. What can they say to me that’s worse than what their grandfather said?”White people really don't understand black conservativism, because it isn't the same as white conservativism.
Barack Obama, a black liberal, has ideas about race and class and government and so forth that are similar to ideas held by white liberals. American Liberalism, while not monolithic, is generally a cohesive whole. Black conservativism (aside from token GOP stooges), however, is authentic black nationalism. The conservative ethos of traditionalism and self-reliance looks a lot different translated through the lens of a minority group. It's my understanding that this tradition is actually larger in the black community than liberalism, but they vote for the Democrats anyway because the Republicans are party of White Supremacy.
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