Where Are All The Black Republicans?
It’s a question that comes up every time you hit the home page of the Republican National Committee’s website: Where are all the black Republicans?
Only a year after celebrating the last days of its first African-American chair, the RNC is fairly light on African-American faces these days. What was once, especially during the ’90s, a fairly aggressive photo-op promotional strategy strung together by a small network of die-hard black political consultants, former elected officials and partisans, is all but dead.
While it did little in the way of yielding any results comparable to Democratic counterparts, there was a sense – leading up to the election of Michael Steele as party chair – that some progress had been made in mending the often bitter relationship between African Americans and the Republican Party.
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It’s a question that comes up every time you hit the home page of the Republican National Committee’s website: Where are all the black Republicans?
Only a year after celebrating the last days of its first African-American chair, the RNC is fairly light on African-American faces these days. What was once, especially during the ’90s, a fairly aggressive photo-op promotional strategy strung together by a small network of die-hard black political consultants, former elected officials and partisans, is all but dead.
While it did little in the way of yielding any results comparable to Democratic counterparts, there was a sense – leading up to the election of Michael Steele as party chair – that some progress had been made in mending the often bitter relationship between African Americans and the Republican Party.
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