GOP: 'We were wrong' to play racial politics
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.” (source)
How long to you think be before they say “we were wrong” for demonizing gay and lesbian citizens for political gain?
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Bush had to send a henchmen to the NAACP meeting because he doesn't have the balls to show up himself - and hasn't for the past 5 years. That says a lot about the Republicans' race relations.