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Republicans must do more to reach black Americans
If there was ever time for responsible people in the Republican Party to rise up, denounce and eject the racists who have hijacked the former Party of Lincoln, it is now.

Certainly, we don’t believe that the entire Republican Party is racist. ... However, when Republican leaders like former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and California GOP vice-chairman Bill Back make statements that lament the 1948 loss of a segregationist presidential candidate or that say the country would have been better off if the Confederacy had won the Civil War, we have to wonder about the commitment of some GOP members. ...

The Republican party still needs to do more to reach out to black Americans — through policy initiatives. ...

We hope the new crop of emerging Republican leaders can break the trend of their elders and offer substantive change, rather than just reassuring rhetoric.

This is an excerpt from a staff editorial that appeared in the Oregon Daily Emerald. It was distributed by U-Wire.