Republican Outreach: Xenophobia with a Smile

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According to freedictionary, outreach means “the act of reaching out.” This is a foreign concept to the Republican Party. They have been in the business of alienating people for so long, that even those who see the merit in changing with the times in the name of political expediency struggle with the concept. Others seem to think that outreach either means uttering your racial slurs, sexist and homophobic statements with a smile or proposing bigoted policies with pretty sounding names.

Since the election, there has been an epidemic of voter suppression laws (otherwise known as 'republican' outreach). On Tuesday, Arkansas‘ governor signed their version of a war on the voter bill. On Wednesday, Virginia joined the pack. North Carolina’s “moderate” Republican Governor had a busy week in outreach. As Sarah Jones reported, he decided to close the State’s Latino outreach office. Meanwhile, his compatriots in the State House introduced their version of a voter suppression bill.

Of course, these efforts at outreach pale in comparison to the effort to gut the Voting Rights Act under the pretense that racist voting laws are in the past.

In a separate attempt at outreach, North Carolina’s State House flew the confederate flag to mark the sesquicentennial of the Civil War for a week, but hey, they’re taking it down after civil rights leaders raised concerns. Of course, no one in the new outreaching Republican Party could have seen that reaction coming.

In the end, the Republican Party’s outreach to immigrants and American born racial minorities will continue to fall short because the fact remains that Republicans on a fundamental level don’t respect immigrants, racial minorities, or for that matter women and the LGBT community.

http://www.politicususa.com/republican-outreach-xenophobia-smile.html

Republican 'outreach'. Now there's an real oxymoron.