This may not be news to some, but did you know that the GOP has a problem recruiting people of color to elected offices.
As George W. Bush winds down his presidency, Republicans are now on the verge of going six years without an African-American governor, senator or House member. That’s the longest such streak since the 1980s.
Now it is time to slam the Republicans. How dare they talk about American values and love for Country when elected officials within the GOP party do not reflect the diversity of our Nation.
Just a few years after the Republican Party launched a highly publicized diversity effort, the GOP is heading into the 2008 election without a single minority candidate with a plausible chance of winning a campaign for the House, the Senate or governor.
You read it right, not one person of color stands a chance to be elected into office if he or she is a part of the Republican party. And why not you may ask.
Jack Kemp, the former Republican congressman and vice presidential nominee, says the culprit is clear: a "pitiful" recruitment effort by his party. "I don’t see much of an outreach," he said.
Yes, if you are a person of color, then you do not stand a chance to being elected if you are a Republican. The GOP has a pitiful track record when it comes to helping people of color gain elected positions of Congress.
Only four black Republicans — Watts, former Massachusetts Sen. Edward Brooke, former Connecticut Rep. Gary Franks and the late Illinois Rep. Oscar Stanton De Priest — have been elected to Congress since Reconstruction.
The party has done slightly better with Cuban-Americans and Hispanics in recent years — Cuban-American Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida recently served as RNC chairman. But the GOP remains a white-dominated party elected overwhelmingly by white voters.