You want African Americans to vote GOP? Fix your party first.
Adorable ...
Gary Franks, a former congressman from Connecticut who was the first black Republican elected to Congress in 60 years [aspires] to get the next Republican nominee 20–25 percent of the black vote. It is ambitious but not impossible, he thinks.
The solution? Charter schools! Less government regulation! Oh, and this:
You would think that conservatives would be all over [ending the drug war] considering that it destroys families and leaves children to be raised in single-family households.
That actually makes genuine, real sense, and shouldn't be a partisan issue. So why aren't Republicans jumping aboard the fight for a more equitable justice system? The author inadvertantly stumbles on the answer:
This is particularly true for low-income African-American families.
... and that's why Republicans won't embrace that, not when they're celebrating executioner cops and George Zimmerman and Donald Trump. Theirs is a party built explicitly on racial animosity, and Trump, in particular, proves that nothing has changed.