GOP: 'We were wrong' to play racial politics
By Richard Benedetto, USA TODAY
Posted 7/14/2005 11:49 PM
Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman apologized to one of the nation's largest black civil rights groups Thursday, saying Republicans had not done enough to court blacks in the past and had exploited racial strife to court white voters, particularly in the South.
"Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization," Mehlman said at the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong."
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WHY BLACKS DON'T VOTE FOR THE GOP
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Since the GOP during this era was controlled by elitist oligarchs
who had sold out the white working middle and had every intention of continuing to do so, whites were fools to have voted for same.
See The Nation's Alterman today for info on how black "liberal"
Rangel helped sell out black working middlers as well.
Ken,
Thanx for the tip!
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