That Old Blackwell 'Magic'

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From the Huffington Post
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-wellington-ennis/that-old-blackwell-magic_b_155456.html)

filmmaker and ex-Facebook friend with Ken Blackwell discusses the race to be RNC Chair!

...Consider this thoughtful statement from Yvonne Davis, an African-American Republican, which she wrote here on the Huffington Post in response to Blackwell's statement on the "Magic Negro" flap:

"The truth is Blackwell or any black running for this post can't have it both ways - on one hand support racist stupidity by being silent or playing it down, and on another hand try to leverage the fact that a Black man going into the White House is an opportunity for a black man to lead the Republican Party."

I respectfully, but vehemently, disagree with Ms. Davis. Trying to have it both ways is exactly what Blackwell intends to do.

In The Washington Times, Blackwell just wrote about how dated the 1965 Voting Rights Act is, which he calls "draconian" :

"This country has clearly progressed beyond yesterday's racism. And the law should not give one party an overwhelming advantage to invoke the mistakes of the past for partisan advantage."

...If the RNC chooses Ken Blackwell as its Chair to lead the party forward, it will be a brazen acknowledgment that they have no ideas or policy to peddle other than the canned politics of an opportunistic reactionary as the Party's face. And it will announce a cynical embrace of tired Republican strategy for exploiting voters along racial lines.