Conscious conservatives

Conscious black conservatives are self-proclaimed black conservatives who support identity politics when it benefits black people and prioritize their identity politics over their alleged conservatism. These people have a strong antipathy toward Blexit co-founders Candace Owens and Brandon Tatum: intensely jealous of their success and influence, they have viciously attacked both Tatum and Owens for race-mixing with white people.^[1] Jennifer Oliver O'Connell even penned a column attacking them as Conservative, Inc. --- even though she writes a column for RedState^[2] and the conscious black conservatives had a panel at CPAC 2021, which they used to implicitly insult Candace Owens. Brandon Tatum describes himself and Owens as "conservatives who happen to be black" and the conscious conservatives as "black people who happen to be conservative."^[3] Joe Collins wrote an article with the backwards premise that Owens and other black conservatives don't care about the inner cities and take every available opportunity to bash inner-city black Republicans and conservatives.^[4] A major sticking point between the real black conservatives and the conscious black conservatives was the Ahmaud Arbery case --- some black conservatives, like Brandon Tatum, claimed that the black jogger was killed in self-defense, and these claims caused the conscious conservatives to lash out. A second major sticking point was the Juneteenth National Holiday --- some black conservatives, like Candace Owens, as well as non-black conservatives claimed the federal holiday was an attempt by leftists to co-opt and restructure American history to fit the mould of the 1619 Project rather than the truth; these claims again caused the conscious conservatives to lash out, and this prompted the very public feud between Owens and Baltimore Congressional candidate Kimberly Klacik.^[5] Other conscious black conservatives include Angela Stanton King, Maj Toure,^[6] Kira Davis, Sonnie Johnson, Shemeka Michelle, and Felicia Killings.