Today my hat is off to the current Chairman of the GOP - GOP official renounces race tactics.
The chairman of the Republican Party on Thursday renounced the GOP's racially polarizing "Southern strategy" of the late 1960s, under which Richard Nixon used such issues as desegregation and forced busing of schoolchildren to woo white voters and win the presidency.
Republican National Committee chief Ken Mehlman made the comments in Milwaukee to the annual convention of the NAACP . . . said that Republicans had been wrong to try to make use of racially divisive issues.
"Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization," Mehlman said, according to his prepared remarks. "I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong."
(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution carrying an Los Angeles Times story.)
Republican National Committee chief Ken Mehlman made the comments in Milwaukee to the annual convention of the NAACP . . . said that Republicans had been wrong to try to make use of racially divisive issues.
"Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization," Mehlman said, according to his prepared remarks. "I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong."
(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution carrying an Los Angeles Times story.)
posted by Sid Cottingham | 11:00 AM
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The GOP is talking out of both sides of their mouth on this. Remember a couple weeks ago when the Senate had the opportunity to apologize for the lynchings they refused to stop (or at least make a crime)? Why wouldn’t the Republican leadership allow it to come up for a REAL vote? Why was it that only Republicans refused to support it? And why was it something like 20 Republicans? If they were sincere, they'd not only do it in campaign speeches but on the floor of the United States Senate too.
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