Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Racial Diversity In The GOP?

"As the nation is on the verge of inaugurating its first black president, the Republican Party is facing a telling choice: whether to elect its first black chairman." As noted in this account, of the six candidates for Republican Party chair four are white and two (Michael Steele and Ken Blackwell) are black. The white candidates include Katon Dawson of South Carolina, who resigned from membership in an all-white country club just before becoming a candidate, and Chip Saltsman of Tennessee, who sent to party members a holiday CD containing the song "Barack the Magic Negro."

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