http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57083-2003Jan28.html
And now for some more hypocrisy on a grand scale. At a recent meeting of Republican leaders, Tom Delay touted his new plan to hire more African Americans as GOP staffers. "One of our problems was, in the hiring of African Americans, we can't find good conservative African Americans to work for us," said Delay, who seemed genuinely unsurprised at this revelation. "But I've got 20 résumés now of young conservatives." According to the Washington Post, "Participants at the meeting said the party needs to recruit more blacks to serve on staffs of House and Senate Republicans, which could translate to more black candidates and voters in the future." So lets get this straight: the Republican Party, which strongly opposes affirmative action, wants to hire staffers based entirely on the color of their skin. The hypocrisy here is to be expected; what's sickening is that rather than doing this to actually help minorities, they're simply trying to cover up their racist tendencies and win votes by parading blacks around. Absolutely disgraceful.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57083-2003Jan28.html
And now for some more hypocrisy on a grand scale. At a recent meeting of Republican leaders, Tom Delay touted his new plan to hire more African Americans as GOP staffers. "One of our problems was, in the hiring of African Americans, we can't find good conservative African Americans to work for us," said Delay, who seemed genuinely unsurprised at this revelation. "But I've got 20 résumés now of young conservatives." According to the Washington Post, "Participants at the meeting said the party needs to recruit more blacks to serve on staffs of House and Senate Republicans, which could translate to more black candidates and voters in the future." So lets get this straight: the Republican Party, which strongly opposes affirmative action, wants to hire staffers based entirely on the color of their skin. The hypocrisy here is to be expected; what's sickening is that rather than doing this to actually help minorities, they're simply trying to cover up their racist tendencies and win votes by parading blacks around. Absolutely disgraceful.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57083-2003Jan28.html