Because black people live to be called tokens.
It wouldn't have been appropriate for a white person to say - But that lady wasn't white.
Get over it - Blacks have some license to speak of other blacks as they see fit.
Relax, white democrats on this board say it about black people who care to speak against the democrat orthodoxy. They also like the term "Uncle Tom".
Uncle Tom is a term that should not be used
Why African-Americans Loathe 'Uncle Tom'
But there's got to be a word that describes guys like Clarence Thomas, Kanye West, Mike Tyson & Ben Carson ...
Lapdogs who fell in line with an ideology that doesn't have their best interests at heart ??
Meh - too long
Why do you denigrate them as black people who think in ways YOU don't believe black people should think? Don't you realize how paternalistic and condescending that is, declaring that there's only one "right" way for black people to think?
Let's call them free thinkers, because that's what they are. They fight against those, like you, who presume to tell them what they should think, so obviously, they believe strongly in what they're saying.