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Isn't there a conservative economist, black economist?

Yes.

And he isn't an appointee, but he serves as an informal adviser, does he not, to the Reagan Administration?

I don't think so, any more. He might have. But I think that the black conservatives are not particularly a homogeneous group, I don't think. I mean, I think there is competition among them as to who is going to be more conservative than the other. I think it would be a mistake to generalize, or to assume that the black conservatives are representative of any significant percentage of blacks. I think they reflect a very small percentage of individuals, who maybe understandably are seeking personal gain by identifying with the present conservative movement, but they certainly don't have any large following. Or not even large. They don't have a following, as far as I can see. We have done a survey of black attitudes and opinions, which was published in the EBONY Magazine, and one of the problems about blacks is that they seem to be about the only large group formerly a part of the Democratic coalition, or the coalition of the Democratic Party, that still has remained liberal. And this is a problem for them, I guess, but they have no choice. So ninety per cent of blacks are still pretty much where they were in terms of attitudes, objectives, goals,