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Ken Mehlman, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, spoke to the NAACP about the relationship between blacks and the Republican party.(The Week)(Brief Article)

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Ken Mehlman, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, spoke to the NAACP about the relationship between blacks and the Republican party. Much of what he said was worthwhile. But he knew, or should have known, that the headlines afterward would concentrate on the following sentences: "Some Republicans [in the '70s, '80s, and '90s] gave up on winning the African American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong." Mehlman was taken to be repudiating the "Southern strategy" followed by Richard Nixon and later Republicans. Yet there was nothing ignoble about seeking ...

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