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Black Republican leader says it's not offensive to disparage a black man as "a negro"
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — I'd have joked and called Ken Blackwell, the black Republican leader in question, a "negro" in order to prove the point that the word is still offensive, but I won't because the word is, well, just that - incredibly offensive, even in satire. When we appease bigotry, we do incredible damage to the civil rights of African-Americans and every other American. And there's even more damage when the appeaser is a member of the group being disparaged. But somehow I suspect that Ken Blackwell, and his gay Republican and Jewish Republican brothers, aren't so worried about that. ...

Ken Blackwell defends Saltsman’s Barack the Magic Negro CD
pandagon.net - we are the public option — by Pam Spaulding The former Ohio vote bag man Secretary of State and contender for the head of the RNC, Ken Blackwell, had this to say about the holiday CD sent to committee members by fellow candidate for the job, Chip Saltsman: “Unfortunately, there is hypersensitivity in the press regarding matters of race. This is in large measure due to President-Elect Obama being the first African-American elected president,” said Blackwell, who would be the first black RNC chairman, in a statement forwarded ...