Before Thomas Sowell and Booker T. Washington, there was William Hannibal Thomas, the OG of Black Conservatives.
And by ‘conservative’, I mean, blames the plight of Black America on culture or pathology. Denies the existence of systemic racism, and “is not rooted in a desire to move forward the very real agenda of poor and working-class Black Americans—better housing, education, less poverty, alleviating student loan debt, providing better access to capital, homeownership and opportunities.” — Sophia A. Nelson