Don King To The Rescue!

This is what kills me about Bush's administration. They keep touting that they have numerous blacks in key positions. Yet, they are all blacks who are isolated/disengaged from the black community. They've got a man who talks like he has marbles in his mouth as the Secretary of Education and he'll have a key speaking role at the RNC. Bush snubs the NAACP Convention and heads off to the Urban League yet fails to understand that the two groups aren't mutually exclusive and that the same folks he was hiding from at one conference will be front and center at the other one.

"The RNC chairman's so-called outreach efforts are nothing new. For the last 25 years, the GOP has sought to cultivate new black leadership to supplant the left-leaning cadre of traditional black leaders. The tactic reached public notoriety in the early 1980s, when a young Congressman from Georgia named Newt Gingrich publicly argued against trying to appeal to traditional black leadership. 'It is in the interest of the Republican Party and Ronald Reagan to invent new black leadership, so to speak. People who have a belief in discipline, hard-work and patriotism, the kind of people who applauded Regan's actions in (invading) Grenada.'

King apparently is one of those invented black leaders suggested by Gingrich, who incidentally remains an influential GOP strategist. King is best known for his wild hair, his 'only in America' mock patriotism and his shady dealings in the disreputable boxing business. That public image and his prison record make him an odd pitchman for a law-and-order administration with a solid base on the Christian right. 'What's next for the GOP?' one Republican blogger asked, 'a photo-op with OJ?'"

Why in HAY-ell they think a crooked whack job like Don King can hustle black votes is just beyond me. In fact, it's quite insulting! Why don't they just get Snoop Dog and Bishop Don 'Magic' Juan or some other court jester from that 'life'!