NPR - S.C. Republican Pins Hopes On Urban Blacks
By rivory | December 16th, 2009 | Category: Campaigns, Featured, General, HHR Contributors |
National Public Radio has an interesting story out about Marvin Rogers an urban Republican who has been featured on HHR many times. Marvin represents one of the arsenals GOP has with regards reaching urban centers. His centrist appeal to inner-city residents and his hands on approach to empowerment is something often lacking in the Republican Party. Here is a guy who truly on the ground spreading a message of personal empowerment yet he’s doing it alone. The Party needs to help people like Marvin giving them the resources and support to carry the GOP message even further.
From NPR :
Ask Rogers what he does in the urban neighborhood where he lives, and he describes himself as a community organizer.
“I don’t mind being called that,” said Rogers, 33.
“A community organizer is this: When you don’t have groceries and you can’t feed your kid, when your house burns down and you don’t have any place to go, the person that you call is a community organizer.”
But unlike the former community organizer now in the White House, Rogers is a staunch conservative who’s trying to spread Republican orthodoxy where it’s rarely heard: among minority groups in the inner city.
“I am a Spanish-speaking African-American conservative who is trying to grow the party,” he said.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121109898&ft=1&f=2100645
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