Once again, the GOP leading candidates have decided to ignore a debate that was to be held at Morgan State University. The topic was minority rights. The reason? Scheduling conflicts, of course. That seems to be the standard line these days. To their credit, Sen. Brownback of Kansas, Mike Huckabee, Reps. Duncan Hunter of California, Ron Paul of Texas and Tom Tancredo of Colorado and Conservative activist Alan L. Keyes, who announced his candidacy last week, will attend.
Remember shortly before this, Univision, the Spanish language network, had also proposed a debate amongst the GOP field but only John McCain signed on.
Frankly I am not a bit surprised that these candidates would rather be a no-show at these types of debates considering the track record of the GOP in relation to minority rights. Switch on to Fox News for about five minutes and see how long it takes for you to hear about the evil and scheming illegal immigrants. The Republican mantra of 'welfare queens', which has been around since the Reagan years and typically refers to African-American women, still predominates their thinking.
The Republicans like to talk a good game about how they've changed and are a party of increasing diversity. Sadly, their actions speak louder than their words.
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