Not Your Sweetie

Maybe in
Black Face



I feel sorry for African American Republicans.

They've never had it real good, but it seems worse for them now than
ever, given the retirement of J.C. Watts, their last remaining member
of Congress.

So I was heartened when I happened on a Web site last month run by a
group called the African American Republican Leadership Council.

This impressive site makes the eloquent argument that African American
Republicans are alive and well, thank you, with leadership and
agendas, eager to break the "liberal democratic stranglehold over
Black America."

(snip)

Beneath his name were the names of the group's official 15-person
Advisory Panel.

It includes noted conservatives Paul Weyrich, Sean Hannity, Grover
Norquist and Gary Bauer, all of whom are as white as a mashed potato
and marshmallow sandwich on Wonder Bread.

In fact, all but two of the 15 members of the Advisory Panel of the
African American Republican Leadership Council are white.

I did, however, have one of the council's few African Americans on the line.

So, Kevin: Where are the black people?

"I'd like there to be more, but let's be honest, right now the
Republican Party and African Americans have a large rift."