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Because there was one for the DNC.

I just watched a few minutes of the roll call.

All white men (RI had a white woman) standing in front of a boring RNC 2020 background.

Democrats certainly did it better.
 
For as long as I can remember, whenever there’s a Republican convention, the ‘whiteness’ of the participants always gets raised as an issue among purveyors of enlightened opinion. To which I reply, so what? Does white automatically equate to bad? Why?
 
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I doubt who did it better (I watched neither) matters until prime time. No one that could be swayed is watching at 1230 PM on some random Alta Vista stream.

But what you say could be true, have no idea. Couldn’t care less how many white folk there are.
 
tomarin said:
For as long as I can remember, whenever there’s a Republican convention, the ‘whiteness’ of the participants always gets raised as an issue among purveyors of enlightened opinion. To which I reply, so what? Does white automatically equate to bad? Why?
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I was more taken by the boring background and single people for each state. I thought the DNC pre-taped roll call parts with groups of diverse people actually in their states was more this century/online friendly.

The whiteness was an afterthought. I’m white, and I don’t think being white is bad. Having a party full of white people is a little exclusionary, but whatever they want.
 
The core of the GOP is white. You have to ask yourself why they don’t attract a more diverse following.
 
Feanor2 said:
The core of the GOP is white. You have to ask yourself why they don’t attract a more diverse following.
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My experience has been that conservative blacks are looked down upon within the black community…called “Uncle Tom’s”, derided, etc. Then people say “Hey, see how there so few black republicans.”
 
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Feanor2:
The core of the GOP is white. You have to ask yourself why they don’t attract a more diverse following.
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My experience has been that conservative blacks are looked down upon within the black community…called “Uncle Tom’s”, derided, etc. Then people say “Hey, see how there so few black republicans.”
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Is it possible that GOP policies are not seen as appealing to the black (and well every other minority)?
 
tomarin said:
For as long as I can remember, whenever there’s a Republican convention, the ‘whiteness’ of the participants always gets raised as an issue among purveyors of enlightened opinion. To which I reply, so what?
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Well, when the RNC talks about ‘big tent’, remembering what they really look like can cause giggles.
 
The Episcopalians used to be called they Republican Party at prayer’ so I guess it has diversified somewhat since then.
 
KMC said:
My experience has been that conservative blacks are looked down upon within the black community…called “Uncle Tom’s”, derided, etc.
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Yes, people like Omarosa Manigault, Candace Owens, Diamond & Silk, etc., should be lauded for their educational and community accomplishments. That is a sarcastic statement, by the way. They are used as conservative black exemplars but are very light on qualifications.

I guess Mike Steele and J.C. Watts are too outspoken for the RNC.

"Former Oklahoma congressman J.C. Watts, who spent years trying to attract minorities to the Republican Party, said here Tuesday that he has serious reservations about presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

"I just don’t feel like Trump is speaking to me _ as a believer, as an African-American, as a conservative,’’ Watts said in an interview. “Whatever category you want to put me in, I don’t feel like he’s speaking to me.”

Watts, who served in the U.S. House from 1995 to 2003, much of that time as the only black Republican in Congress, said Trump “uses too broad a brush” in speaking about people.

“What he’s said about Blacks, Hispanics. women, Muslims _ you can’t be a constitutionalist and ignore the Constitution.”"

Remember, If Tim Scott speaks at the convention, he was one of the Republicans who said that Trump’s comments about Democratic politicians ‘going back where they came from’ were racist.
 
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Feanor2 said:
The core of the GOP is white. You have to ask yourself why they don’t attract a more diverse following.
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I’m not sure they don’t. The last I saw, 38% of Latinos support Trump. Not the majority, but not miniscule, either. Ultimately, the majority of Meixcan-Americans will be Republicans, or at least independent conservatives. Possibly also true of Central Americans.

When looking at a crowd of people whose racial or ethnic composition one does not know, it can be pretty tough to pick out the Hispanics because so many of them are as “white” as any southern or western European.
 
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I wonder if the DNC will run any “He pardoned Sheriff Apraio” ads on Spanish speaking TV and radio stations, because I sure would if I were them.
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Lots of Mexican-Americans don’t like illegals coming here either. The DNC won’t be running those ads other than, perhaps for white suburbanites who have a terminal case of “white guilt”.
 
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However, the ones I know don’t like being harassed by police because they are Hispanic.
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Cops who know their stuff don’t bother with Hispanic locals. They can tell them apart almost invariably by just looking at them. And what’s “harassed”? Being asked for ID if you run a stop light?

But if you’re a Hispanic driving north on I-44 with California plates and the back end riding low, you will almost certainly be stopped, and ought to be.
 
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I couldn’t say. But if you’re white, bearded and grubby looking, driving a late-model Mercedes through Rolla, Missouri, you’re almost certain to get stopped.

If you knew how many drug shipments get interdicted with either kind of profile you might not be so disapproving. But maybe you would be.
 
Goodness! All those white people. How awful that they would put white people in those photos!
 
There are plenty of notable black conservatives.Geez nit picking much?
 
South Asian conservative checking in. Even my Muslim father voted for Reagan and Bush Sr. and Jr.

Nothing more annoying, or patronizing than White liberals using people like me as pawns to support their godless agenda

Clarifying note: I’m a conservative, but I vote reluctantly for the GOP. If only the American Solidarity Party was stronger.
 
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There are plenty of notable black conservatives.Geez nit picking much?
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As I said upthread, the white male part, while sticking out like a sore thumb, is secondary to the production values.

I thought Trump was touted as a TV producer. The Republican roll call was boring. The Democrats used modern media to make it more interesting and, dare I say, inclusive.
 
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