Dennis Sanders: Conservatives, Susan Rice, and Better PR
The Republican Party and the conservative movement in America doesn’t really have a diversity problem as some would have us believe. The GOP can boast that it has several persons of color holding electoral office in the statehouse , the Senate and the House. Former Secretary of State Condi Rice received cheers during the recent Republican National Convention in Tampa.
The party doesn’t have a diversity problem per se. It most certainly does have an image problem.
The two most recent conflicts in the news: the flap over UN Ambassador Susan Rice and the defeat of a UN treaty on disabilities are not placing conservatives in a good light. There might be good reasons to oppose Ms. Rice and the UN treaty, but those reasons, however sensible they may be, are getting trampled by the images of white men going after a black woman and someone in a wheelchair.
Source: Big Tent Review. Read full article. (link)
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