Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s presidential campaign has taken heat for his family’s hunting property, which is named after a racist term. But it’s not his only problem with race: A number of members of his campaign team have a history with inflammatory rhetoric on racial issues, as well as More…
What’s there to say, really, about Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s argument that Barack Obama won the presidency “because the press fell in love with the black man running for the office”? That Steele should stop guest-hosting Bill Bennett’s show, sure. That Steele forgets how two controversies kneecapped More…
Matt Strawn, the newly-elected chairman of the Iowa Republicans, gives the most scripted of the nominating speeches thus far, in support of current Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan. “I’ve been all around Iowa, and let me tell ya, Iowa Republicans are fired up ready to fight.”
From a second More…
My friend J.P. Freire digs up a 2003 speech by Katon Dawson, the Republican National Committee chairman candidate who has apologized for once belonging to a whites-only country club, in which Dawson traces his Republicanism back to…
…wait for it…
… racial integration.
I, in the 1960s was
Chip Saltsman has put the “magic negro” story behind him. The news that the ex-Mike Huckabee campaign manager and candidate for chairman of the Republican National Committee had sent RNC members a CD of parody songs that included “Barack the Magic Negro” lit up the political press during the slow More…
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