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I thought you might be interested in the article from the FAIR web site. The following article will be appended to your message: 'The Loudest Silence Ever Heard' By Lionel McPherson I often felt that the media assumed that, to be black, one had to espouse leftist ideas and Democratic politics. Any black who deviated from the ideological litany of requisites was an oddity and was to be cut from the herd and attacked.... There was, indeed, in my view, a complicity and penchant on the part of the media to disseminate indiscriminately whatever negative news there was about black conservatives and ignore or bury the positive news.... They could smirk at us black conservatives because they felt we had no real political or economic support. -Clarence Thomas, from a 1987 speech to the Heritage Foundation, "No Room at the Inn: The Loneliness of the Black Conservative" (Policy Review, Fall/91) The contemporary interest in black conservatives began in 1980 with the election of Ronald Reagan, and continued, 12 years later, through George Bush's administration. With the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, the subject reached heights unmatched since the rise of Booker T. Washington early this century. In 26 features about individual black conservatives and 25 overview articles found in a Nexis database search of major papers and magazines (1/1/84-7/20/92), the themes of silence and exclusion frequently arose. Politically, no doubt, black conservatives are few. In 1991, three of 436 black state legislators were Republican (Newsweek, 7/15/91). Gary Franks, the only Republican among 26 black members of Congress and the first elected to the House since 1934, represents a Connecticut district with fewer than 5 percent black voters. To read the rest of the article, please click on the link below. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1488 This article was published on Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting's Website (http://www.fair.org).

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