Steele Gets Funky For The RNC
by John Ridley
Freshly minted Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele gave an interview to the Washington Times in which he detailed his plans for making the GOP relevant again. Says Steele:
We need messengers to really capture that region – young, Hispanic, black, a cross section … We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-suburban hip-hop settings.
Hip-hop. Really? That’s Chairman Steele’s reductive take on people of color? That unless “principles” are framed in rhyme and break beats we will have no interest in them? (more…)
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