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That’s the point here. Dressing up as KKK members and putting on black-face are unacceptable behavior even at a PRIVATE party. Unless you think racism is fine if no one see it. In which case, you’re a racist.

This guy's error was NOT that he made the photo public. It was NOT that he distastefully and embarrassingly put this stuff on a republican website. His error was that he was associating with racists. A principled, intelligent leader would have said, “take that crap off or leave”.

Demographics are destiny. The day is coming when ‘whites’ are a going to be a minority in this country. The Bush administration has been wisely reaching out to Hispanic Catholic voters with conservative social attitudes. These voters will rule the Southwest in a few years and be key swing votes in Texas, Florida, Michigan etc.. Other immigrants, Asians and Blacks will have to be won over to conservative beliefs if the country is going to be prevented from sliding further into the direction of liberalism it has been taking since the 1940’s. If not the Conservative revolution (started by Goldwater, consolidated by Reagan, and perpetuated by Bush) will be just a footnote in American history. Acts like this stuff at Penn State suggest that all this ‘inclusiveness’ talk is just window-dressing meant to hide some ugly core beliefs. And no matter how you dress up a swine, it’s still a pig.

Personally, I'm largely just tired of hearing moderate to conservative blacks tell me that they can't bring themselves to vote Republican because they perceive the Republican Party as a home for racists. Yes, Southern Democrats fought against Civil Rights in the 1960s but the fact that many of those very same people switched parties to become Republicans and were accepted is not lost on many blacks. I don't believe the Republican Party is racist nor do I believe that many conservative policies that are called racist are racist. But to get past the perception that conservatives are racist, they need to avoid nonsense like this.

In fairness, I don't think they dressed up as KKK members. That particular bit appeared in a picture caption. But the blackface is bad enough, no matter what the intent.