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Well, it looks like the GOP’s minority recruiting efforts have proven to be a miserable failure.

In a party that treats words like “diversity” like profanity and has made race-baiting an art (okay, I’ll admit Bill Clinton is pretty good at it, too), it’s no wonder that this is a problem for them.

So, as this November looms, this campaign season marks six years without the GOP running a single minority candidate for the House, Senate or a state governorship.

Now, in all fairness, the GOP can tout rising star Bobby Jindal, Governor of Lousiana and an Indian-American, as a strong minority political figure.

But, at this same time, the Democrats can talk about the dozens of Black and Latino House members, a Black Senator/Presidential candidate and three minority governors.

What this tells me is that, if I had political aspirations, I might stand a better shot in the Democratic party, though, to be fair, it has its own issues with race, too.

Nonetheless, the Republicans need to realize something that I continue to say about race in America — African Americans are not just white people in blackface. By extension, you can say that about any other people of color in this country. Republicans seem to believe that everyone must think and act like old, white men and are inflexible to the notion that the country, by and large, is not that way. It’s a simple notion — you evolve or your die.

Perhaps, one day, Republicans will get a clue and realize that if you want black candidates, which really means they want the black vote, they’ll have to make institutional changes in their party that really address the concerns of black voters.

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