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Want Black Votes, GOP? Listen to Black Voters
If Republicans want to successfully win minority voters, it would behoove them to attend events frequented by black and female voters, among other things, Roland Martin writes at his eponymous blog. For more than a year I’ve tried to get Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus to make an appearance on my Sunday morning news…
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Show People the Newtown Carnage
After Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Mississippi in the 1950s by white men for allegedly flirting with a white woman, his mother chose to have an open casket at his wake so that people could see what the murderers had done to her boy. Along those same lines, Roland S. Martin, writing for CNN.com,…
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Should GOP Consider J.C. Watts for RNC?
Roland S. Martin argues in a piece at CNN that J.C. Watts is just the voice the GOP needs to overhaul its image as party geared toward white Americans, saying he could help open those all-important lines of communication with minority voters. (CNN) — A number of establishment Republicans are privately blasting former Rep. J.C. Watts…
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Florida Continues to Try to Deny Voters
CNN contributor Roland Martin is annoyed with Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who he argues is doing his level best to harass the voters of the Sunshine State. Now, Martin explains, the state has begun the process of purging voting rolls, a move that in the past has resulted in eligible citizens wrongly stricken. Now there…
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Roland Martin on Differences and Understanding
In an entry at his Roland S. Martin blog, the political analyst writes about his meeting with GLAAD (the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) that took place in the aftermath of his Super Bowl Twitter debacle, during which he made tweets that many considered to be offensive to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender…
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Cain Needs to Get Serious to Be Taken Seriously
CNN analyst Roland S. Martin writes in a blog entry that as GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain continues to rise in popularity among conservatives, he needs to sharpen his knowledge of certain issues, especially foreign policy, so that a broader swath of voters will take him seriously. Former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain has vaulted…
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Mr. President, Ignore Boehner!
In his blog at Roland S. Martin, Martin called on President Barack Obama to show his toughness in the latest squabble with House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) over his request to speak before a joint session of Congress. When President Barack Obama was a community organizer in Chicago and the powers that be were ignoring the…
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Presidential-Vacation Whiners: Get a Life
In his blog, CNN political analyst Roland S. Martin challenges opponents to stop complaining about President Obama’s vacation, saying that there is no such thing as a day off for the nation’s leader. When people send me outlandish, ridiculous, asinine or flat-out dumb tweets, I quickly give them a Stuck-on-Stupid Tweet-of-the-Day award. So when it…
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