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RNC Chairman Michael Steele speaks at Tavis Smiley's State of Black Union
Staff Reporter | Posted March 2, 2009 10:11 AM
Michael Steele broke new ground on Saturday by speaking at Tavis Smiley's annual State of the Black Union event in Los Angeles as the first black chairman of the Republican Party.
"Both parties got hot heads," Steele said. "My job as the national voice, the national leader of this party is to bring reason to the debate," Steele said.
Citing the controversial New York Post chimpanzee cartoon last month, Steele said the cartoon "denigrated" the president. "I spoke out against that. It was a stupid, ignorant cartoon. It should never have been published," Steele said.
Steele, the former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, said he had reached out to Barack Obama when Obama was first elected to the U.S. Senate, and he saluted Obama on Saturday.
"Who would think that in 2009 you'd have two black men at the pinnacle of political power in this country," said Steele, who attended Smiley's 2008 event before he was elected RNC chairman. He said he attended Smiley's event this year to bring his party to the community.
Steele also questioned the notion that blacks cannot be or should not be Republicans. "We are not monolithic in our politics," Steele said. "Up until really Roosevelt, African Americans largely voted 90 percent Republican," Steele noted. But he said the Republican Party "effectively walked away from the community" over the past 70 years and took on a southern strategy of winning disaffected Southern white males to vote for the GOP.
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