Her candidacy helps pierce the “big lie”, that Republicans do not have diversity in the party, and that the GOP represents mainly older white voters.
I’m surprised that it wasn’t bigger news in 2010, when we saw the election of Allen West and Tim Scott to Congress, both black Republicans.
In the same year, we saw the election of governors Nikki Haley of South Carolina, Susana Martinez of New Mexico, and Brian Sandoval of Nevada. Governor Haley is of Indian descent; her parents are Indians from India. Governors Martinez and Sandoval are Hispanic. And all are Republicans.
Add in others, such as Bobby Jindal and Marco Rubio, and we see that there is plenty of the diveristy in the Republican party, which the liberals don’t seem to see. This Republican diversity seldom seems to show up in the narrative in the MSM.
Her candidacy helps pierce the “big lie”, that Republicans do not have diversity in the party, and that the GOP represents mainly older white voters. I agree. This is why I say our side can't pander, but must show that when we succeed, everybody wins. When the economy recovered from the mess that was Carternomics, everybody won. When the Cold War ended, everybody won. When Welfare Reform passed, everybody won.
It does not matter how many persons of color become GOP candidates or office holders. They are ideologically not black. I listened to a clip of Harry Belafonte speaking about what blacks were really black. To be a true black politician one has to be ‘down for the struggle’. Which is to say they must see politics as an endless zero sum game played to shake the ‘man’ down and make Whitey pay for his sins. The ‘sin of slavery’ and the ‘crimes of Jim Crow’ can never, never be expiated but Whitey has to be relentlessly mau maued and denigrated and shaken down so that black folks can enjoy some retribution and pay back and pay off. He specifically mentioned every prominent non ‘civil rights’black as sellouts including Colin Powell. So the professional ‘civil rights blacks’ who are one of the pillars of the Dem party will never have anything to say about people such as Rep West or this woman than’sell out, white man's n-——, oreo’.