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among blacks is now at its highest level in the twenty-three years they've been keeping the
statistic. And she'd blame it all on Bush. She'd claim it was because of overt, deliberate racism,
rather than his more general bias toward the already privileged. She might even say that
his tax cuts are inherently racist, because not only are blacks disproportionately likely to be at
the bottom of the economic ladder, but they're disproportionately unlikely to be at the top.
But that's Ann. I personally would never accuse Bush's tax cuts of being racially motivated.
I just think that, very generally speaking, they happen to hurt black people and help
rich people. Who tend, again generally, to be white. That's all I'm saying.
During the whole Trent Lott mess, Gene Weingarten, a writer for the Washington Post,
found a great website run by an obscure group called the African American Republican
Leadership Council. The site, www.AARLC.org, seeks to dispel the myth that the Republican
Party has lost touch with blacks and is determined to break the "liberal democrat stranglehold
over Black America."
At the time, the group's official fifteen-person advisory panel included Sean Hannity,
Grover Norquist, Gary Bauer, and Paul Weyrich. All but two of the fifteen members of the
advisory panel of the African American Republican Leadership Council were white.
The site did list former Massachusetts Senator Edward W Brooke III, a genuine African-American,
as the panel's honorary chairman. So Weingarten called Brooke, who told the
reporter that he had never heard of the group and had no idea why his name was on the site.
Weingarten called the man identified as the group's political spokesman and asked
him why there weren't more AfricanAmericans associated with the African-American advisory
panel. The spokesman, Kevin L. Martin, said, "I'd like there to be more, but let's be honest,
right now the Republican Party and AfricanAmericans have a large rift."
I don't know about you. But I think it's a little sad that, since J. C. Watts left the
House, the number one black leader in the Republican Party is Sean Hannity.