You do a great job of taking Candace Owen's tweet out of context. When you take her tweet in context, she is saying...
She finds it funny, that white and half white people have gotten on the bandwagon of systemic white racism and privilege in order to get their share of the money, that can be earned promoting such beliefs.
She is clearly not inferring that Kaepernick is stating that black people are less than white people. When you start with a false premise, your argument collapses.
In her tweet, she is not even saying whether systemic racism exists, she is simply pointing to the profit that can be earned promoting that it does exist. Even if you are white.
Where your post makes a fair criticism is that black conservatives who earn money in the same way Kaepernick do so promoting "their truth". Like anyone "selling" their opinions, they need to be viewed as "conflicted", since they are selling their views for profit as Candace points out.
Meanwhile, you are guilty of the same thing as Kaepernick and Owens, though I suspect you earn far less from promoting your views then they do. As to be clear, you have a right to your views and a right to express them. But it is a bit disingenuous to twist what other people say to support your views. Just state them.
Black conservatives are extremely important to the black community. It reinforces the idea that blacks are individuals with different experiences and values that lead them to different conclusions about our society as a whole.
Interestingly, the term "conservative" can mean many different things. However, the label conservative when applied to many successful outspoken black "talking heads" is usually attributed to people that believe "the system" is working for everyone.
Perhaps not perfectly, but with far less racism built into it, then that advocated by those on the left. Black conservatives don't deny "racism". Instead, they argue that systemic or institutional racism has largely been taken out of the system through legislation.
They point to themselves and the millions of other African Americans that have enjoyed success within the current system. And so, they reject the idea, that African Americans need to "hang together" as a racial identity group and suppress their individual goals and instead follow the direction of the identity group leaders (often self-appointed).
Shelby Steele captures this in some of his past interview on the subject. He said growing up it was essential for blacks to hang together and suppress their individuality in pursuit of civil rights legislation and anti-discrimination laws.
But the whole goal of those actions was to remain in that state, but to provide African Americans the same rights including diveristy of thought enjoyed by whites.
He goes on to say those efforts have been largely realized. But there remain those leaders in the African American community that benefit or at the least, remain wedded to the ideology of racial identity groups and to some extent social segregation.
Those individuals see African Americans that don't share their values as "traitors", Uncle Toms, or whatever similar term one chooses to disparage an independent thinking black man. They use the "cancel" culture techniques of social ostracism to isolate those blacks that think as individuals. He rejects these behaviors.
He concluded that the time has come to put the emphasis on integrating into society rather than remaining segregated as an identity group and that can never happen as long as people are arguing blacks are "victims" of systemic racism.
Some of his quotes:
“It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.”
“My individuality is my gift to my people.”
“There also comes a time when he must stop thinking of himself as a victim by acknowledging that—existentially—his fate is always in his own hands.”
