Party Politics
Evers alleges GOP presidential candidates snubbed black voters
Charles Evers, an African American on the Mississippi Republican Executive Committee, feels the GOP is turning its back on a large segment of voters. The radio station owner is outraged over what he sees as blacks being snubbed by the presidential contenders. The political activist said African Americans, roughly 45% of the state’s population, were [...]
White Republican running as Democrat in majority black district: Race not an issue
Tom Swiss is a white candidate running for state representative in a majority African-American district. But that has nothing to do with his decision to erect a billboard with his name and a picture of a black construction worker, he said. “I don’t look at this as a race issue — I look at it [...]
Unocccupied Voters
Greg Thrasher – Dispatch From Washington DC One of the political realties of America today even during the Presidency of our nation’s first non-white president is the emergence of special interest political movements which have altered the legislative agendas of both state and federal political bodies. Here in Washington DC the influence of the Tea [...]
Where did GOP blacks go?
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, [...]
Racial appeals live on in politics
When former House Speaker Newt Gingrich calls President Barack Obama a “food-stamp president,” he’s appealing to core Republican values of self-reliance, independence from government and the indisputable supremacy of capitalism. But some Tennessee critics hear another, more troubling message lying beneath Gingrich’s words about the nation’s first black chief executive. They hear it even more [...]
