McKay Coppins takes a look at how the Republicans are doing with their minority outreach programs. It appears that they think that they are making inroads by attacking an editor at Ebony and forcing MSNBC to apologize for some of their guests’ insensitive remarks. But attacking black folks, even if those black folks may be in the wrong is some respects, is still attacking black folks.
Speaking of which, guest-blogger Chad Stanton made a very interesting argument at the Washington Monthly this weekend where he compared the 1980’s campaign to get blacks to value education and personal responsibility with the Republican Party’s recent lurch into anti-science climate change-denialism and their turn away from environmental stewardship. In other words, the GOP is neither taking education seriously nor are they taking personal responsibility.
Ironic, no?