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Taking a broad-minded view of Keyes
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| Last Edited | None Entered Aug 14, 2004 05:55am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Chicago Tribune |
| News Date | Friday, August 13, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The charitable interpretation of the Illinois Republican Party's decision to invite Alan Keyes to move to Illinois and run for the U.S. Senate against Democratic nominee Barack Obama is that Republicans are eager, too, to get behind the idea of sending an African-American to the U.S. Senate for only the third time in recent history.
But I don't have as much confidence in my fellow man as I should. A doubting, mistrustful voice keeps welling within me. This voice tells me the invitation to Keyes--and the fact that both of the finalists chosen by the Illinois GOP were African-American--may have been terribly cynical.
The voice explains that ever since Jack Ryan resigned as the Republican nominee for the Senate, the GOP has had to ask, "What does Barack Obama stand for, and what Republican can trump that?"
Keyes is a provocative answer to these questions. The GOP's invitation to him seems to make the statement that not all African-Americans are Democrats; that African-Americans can have diverse opinions too.
But this would mean Obama stands for the idea that all African-Americans think the same way, or that his political prominence depends on cornering the market on black voters. |
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