Unlike the Republican National Committee (RNC), our national party apparatus, most of the 50 state party committees are stuck in the 1960s when it comes to the Black community. Exhibit A for this was the annual weekend gathering for the Republican Party of Virginia (RPV) that took place two weeks ago in Dulles, Va., about 25 miles outside of Washington, D.C. This is a gathering where all the powers that be from across the state gather to plot future strategies that will move the state party forward...The irony of all the money that was that all the major speakers were White. There was not one Black speaker at an event where the party was talking about wanting to engage more with the Black community. As the old folks used to say, “their actions speak so loud I can’t hear a thing they are saying.”
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 17:04:59 +0000