LATimes Columnist Thinks Its Particularly Bad to be Black

Commenting on the Claude Allen story, the Bush Admnistration official who was caught shoplifting at Target, Erin Aubrey Kaplan has this:

I don't support conservatism in its current iteration, and I support black conservatives even less, but we cannot ignore the racial implications of this latest Republican fall from grace. Here is a decidedly white-collar black man getting clipped for a blue-collar crime associated with economic necessity, one that practically guarantees prison time for most black men in this country. (Even if he's ultimately convicted, it's doubtful that Allen will end up behind bars.)

So Black conservatives are worse that White conservatives, just for being Black, apparently.  I don't think its quite fair to accuse Ms. Kaplan of racism, though that is certainly what she would do if the shoe were on the other foot.  But it certainly is a nasty ad hominem.