[highball]

Granted that Blacks vote Democrats by a huge margin, but by not going, the Republicans might be re-enforcing the message already ingrained in the heads of many Americans — THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE.

Exactly. Which is why the refusals were irresponsible at least.

Blacks desperately need to hear the conservative message. When we refuse to tell it to them, we feed into the worst caricatures of conservatives. A moment to celebrate true color-blindness is tailor-made for that message. If they don't even have the courage to stand up and say that legalized segregation was wrong fifty years ago, why should any blacks listen to our plans now?

Prop 8 in California ought to have showed us that there's a group of blacks willing to at least listen to us. Unfortunately, the GOP-e can't be bothered to make that case. They're afraid of a little hard work, which should surprise nobody.

We can't continue to be the party of white people only. If we don't start significant outreach, we'll never win another national election again.

[boxlunch]

Rather than attending and giving honor to a man associated with the communist party, conservatives need to honor truly great men such as Ben Carson, Clarence Thomas, etc.

And I don’t agree that we should honor men just because they are black and famous, but honor them along with others who are making contributions to society, whether white/Caucasian, black , Asian, etc. Otherwise we are stooping to their racists levels.