Saturday, February 21, 2009

RNC Chair Michael Steele And Hip Hop

In an interview with the Washington Times, Republican Party chairman Michael Steele expressed his plans to attract to the GOP younger voters and blacks and Latinos. Steele: "We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-suburban hip-hop settings. [W]e need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed midgets." (Huh?)

One comment on Steele's remarks: "Hip-hop. Really? That's Chairman Steele's reductive take on people of color? That unless 'principles' are framed in rhyme and break beats we will have no interest in them?"

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