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RNC chair Mehlman: "We're Not Buying It"

RNC Chair Ken Mehlman addressed the NAACP in lieu of the president who was unable to attend recause of scheduling conflicts.

Concerning the political parties and African Americans, Mehlman said:

"But if my party benefited from racial polarization in the past, it is the Democratic Party that benefits from it today."
Paul Waldman at the Gadflyer says "Close But No Cigar"

http://gadflyer.com/flytrap/index.php?Week=200528#1991

""Racial polarization?" No, Ken, "racial polarization" is when the races aren't getting along. What the GOP worked so hard to stir up and benefit from was not "racial polarization," it was racism. And it wasn't just "in the past." It continues to this day. It's not just Nixon who pursued the Southern strategy, it was Reagan and his mythical "welfare queens," it was George H.W. Bush and Willie Horton, it was George W. Bush and the Confederate flag, it was Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond and the Republicans who try to suppress the black vote in each and every election.

You want to apologize? Great. But don't piss down the NAACP's leg and tell them it's raining."

Waldman is dead on the money. Knowledgable and politically astute African Americans know that the Republican party has paid only lip service to our community. It is insulting for the administration to claim a scheduling conflict when Bush has dodged the NAACP since he was elected.

posted by niteskolar @ 2:46 PM