The Huffington Post claims Mia Love is a benefactor of white privilege?

 The 2014 mid-term election brought larger victories to the Republican party than most people had predicted. As a result of this some on the left seem to have become unhinged as they try to explain away their loses.

  The most glaring example of this can probably be seen in this article on The Huffington Post about Mia Love which seems to suggest she is a benefactor of white privilege.

  For those who might not know who Mia Love is, she is a black/Haitian conservative Republican woman who won a seat in the Congress representing Utah.

  So how could she possibly have benefited from white privilege? Here is the twisted logic:

She appears publicly unhampered by the daily grind of white racism that affects other racial minorities within the United States. Unlike most of them, Mia gets to walk through the hallowed doorways of white institutions controlled by elite, powerful men. She is allowed to pass through in her black, female body with the understanding that she must not see, speak or openly advocate for anything related to race or gender — an unholy compromise. Hence, she might look black, but her politics are red. This is one way white privilege is reproduced at the legislative level of government. In fact, Mia, along with other notable black conservatives such as Allen West, Michael Steele, Amy Holmes, Alan Keyes and Tom Scott, subscribe to a party that rejects any notion of systemic racism as a central cause of black suffering within its basic tenets of individualism. What many conservatives fail to recognize is that individuals are connected to larger groups, and the group in which these Black Republicans belong persistently lags behind in every major social indicator.

  First of all, it is Tim Scott not Tom Scott. You would think the author would have at least gotten the name right, but let that go. I really do not have much to add to this–the words speak for themselves–other than to say that it is insulting, and downright racist, to suggest that all minorities should feel, act, and vote the same way. 

  The article also seems to suggest that these black conservatives are too stupid to realize they are being used, how insulting is that?