Freelance writer Dan LeRoy interviewed members of the Conservative Brotherhood, including myself, and his fine article has been published on National Review Online. He writes:
Avery Tooley describes himself simply as “a regular brother with some right-leaning political tendencies.” In other words, he’s the kind of black American that — if you listen to the Left and our self-proclaimed “black leaders” — doesn’t really exist.Yet not only is Tooley, a University of Maryland grad student, a real person, he’s also sharing his conservatism with the world daily via a blog titled “Stereo Describes My Scenario.” Taking its title from a lyric by hip-hop legends Public Enemy, it’s a wide-ranging discussion of music and politics underlaid by a no-nonsense philosophy: “(T)he right’s focus on the individual is the only practical way” to solve the problems of black America.
Tooley isn’t alone in propagating this heresy in the blogosphere, either. He’s one of several black bloggers who make up The Conservative Brotherhood — a group of writers which also includes some women, like La Shawn Barber, a 37-year-old legal assistant and reformed liberal from Washington, D.C., whose own “Corner” features a Christian conservative’s perspective on the issues of the day.
“I didn’t really have a lot of ambitions for it. It started out as a semi-personal journal,” says Barber. But after nine months of blogging and building her audience, “I almost feel like it’s an obligation to stay out in the public eye.”
I need to clarify this part. The “public eye” comment was made in reference to being an alternative voice. I certaintly don’t feel that blogging and writing a column are obligations. Besides that, I wouldn’t change a thing. Read the rest.
Addendum: A link on NRO is better than (dare I say it?) an Insta-lanche!
(Athough I wouldn’t mind getting one of those, too 
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