11.12.74 Steele: I'll Woo Blacks To GOP With "Fried Chicken And Potato Salad"

noreply@blogger.com (11.12.74) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:06:02 PDT

By Bil Browning

The Young Republicans convention was held in Indianapolis last weekend and their election of a racist, middle-aged woman as President isn't the only controversial item to come out of the GOP gathering.

Local Republican blog Hoosier Access was able to get RNC Chairman Michael Steele to sit down with a group of bloggers and they taped the conversation. The old gaffe-o-matic (or as I like to call him, the Republican Joe Biden!) answers a question from a gay person of color in this clip about the GOP's diversity outreach.

Steele: I'll Woo Blacks To GOP With "Fried Chicken And Potato Salad"....

Coach Jim Ellis of Pride not surprised by swim club snub

noreply@blogger.com (11.12.74) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:09:26 PDT

By: By Frederick Cosby

Philadelphia Department of Recreation Swim Team Coach Jim Ellis wasn’t surprised when a group of black campers was turned away from a private suburban Philly swim club – disappointed – but not surprised.

“I’ve dealt with this in the 30 years in building my swim team,” said Ellis, who created an all-black competitive swim team in the city in the 1970s that was the basis from the 2007 Terrence Howard movie Pride. “The older generation understands it, the younger generation doesn’t understand it. It’s an eye opener.”

Eyes - and mouths - are still wide nationwide from the story of black and Hispanic campers from Philadelphia’s Creative Steps Inc. who said they heard some members of the Valley Club swimming pool in Huntingdon Valley, Pa., make racial remarks and escort their children away from the pool.

Pride coach not surprised by swim club snub....

Regina Benjamin Tapped as Surgeon General

noreply@blogger.com (11.12.74) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:02:40 PDT

From CNN:

"President Obama announced Monday he has chosen Dr. Regina Benjamin, a family practice doctor from the Gulf Coast, to serve as surgeon general.

Regina Benjamin Tapped as Surgeon General....