Courtesy of The Hill:CPAC communication director Ian Walters said tonight at the Ronald Reagan dinner: “We elected Mike Steele as chairman because he was a black guy, that was the wrong thing to do.”— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 24, 2018
Guests at tables apparently gasped in shock. https://t.co/pRJjNPsM29
Former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele said Saturday that a suggestion from a CPAC official that Steele was only chosen to lead the RNC because he is black underscores a tense relationship with race within the GOP.
"It’s the groupthink that has emerged within the party that has now poisoned the national dialogue," Steele said on his SiriusXM show "Steele & Ungar."
"To hear it come from a young man ... a minority himself ... it makes it even crazier," Steele added.
His comments came the morning after Ian Walters, the communications director for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) being held at the National Harbor, Md., told an audience that Steele was only elected RNC chair because "he was a black guy."
Steele offered a bunch of excuses to try and explain why this statement was not true, but come on we all know that it is.
Steele was elected to head the RNC IMMEDIATELY after Barack Obama won the presidency.
The second they announced Steele's appointment I knew why they put him there.
It was for the same reason that they nominated Sarah Palin to be McCain's running mate.
It's called "tokenism" and it is rampant throughout the Republican party.
Remember how Trump referred to that guy behind him as "My black guy."
"See I can't be a racist because I have one of my own black people."
And we know they do this because of a little thing called "projection."
Think back to how many times you have seen some Right Wing dipshit accuse the Democrats of "using the black people," or of only treating them like property that they can manipulate into voting for them, without ever doing anything to meet their needs.
Of course that completely ignores the fact that many of the Democrats ARE African Americans who of course are sympathetic to the needs of their constituents.
But that is what projections is. Taking your own despicable traits and projecting them onto others.
If Michael Steele did not realize that he was being used, well then he deserves to have been manipulated by a party that never gave a shit about him, or people like him.
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