Perhaps the biggest irony of the ever-growing chorus of Black conservative voices is that they claim that race doesn’t matter when their Blackness is the only reason they have prominence. It was bad enough in the post-George Floyd era to see so many books by Black celebrities who suddenly had something to say about racism. But at least they usually come with some interesting biographical stories of people who have earned their fame through being exceptional. All we can do is hope that This is Not America doesn’t mark a trend in conservative voices—who are only prominent because they are Black and peddle racist ideas—getting book contracts. Tomiwa Owolade basically has two arguments in the book and they both demonstrate he should never have been commissioned to write it.
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