I first thought Michael Steele had the potential to at least be a credible black spokesman for the GOP. Boy was I wrong! He has been a joke to this point. But not to be outdone, in steps the Cato institute's Shelby Steele (not related to Michael except by ideology). His last article in the Wall St Journal has really gotten the Black Blogosphere up in arms.
See Shelby wrote an essay in response to why the GOP can't win minorities, and decided "it's not me, it's you!"Why the GOP Can't Win With Minorities.
And here is conservatism's great problem with minorities. In an era when even failed moral activism is redemptive -- and thus a source of moral authority and power -- conservatism stands flat-footed with only discipline to offer. It has only an invisible hand to compete with the activism of the left. So conservatism has no way to show itself redeemed of America's bigoted past, no way like the Great Society to engineer a grand display of its innocence, and no way to show deference to minorities for the oppression they endured. Thus it seems to be in league with that oppression.