A good list (Thomas' last name is spelled "Sowell.") All have one thing in common: they are hated beyond reason by the Left.

A quote from a typical Leftist Minority Psycho Hose Beast mentions some from your list and a few more:

...Each day I am more shocked by the increasingly heinous betrayal of the black neocons of the world. They are soulless monsters like McWhorter and his clones like Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Colin Powell (Colon), Shelby Steele, flaming closet gay Armstrong Williams, psycho Ward Connerly, pimp trick Ken Hamblin, Larry Elders, Ezola Foster ("Ebola") etc.. They are eternal proof that overseers can be far crueler than their massas.

Walter Williams is guest hosting for Rush Limbaugh this week. Thomas Sowell's books are must-reads. And Larry Elders has a great article on this subject, from which the header on this column comes.

In the liberal lexicon, if you are black, and not a leftist, you not only aren't really "black" at all, but the worst kind of traitor.