Is this Black Repub. Boston Globe article as biased as I think it is?

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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/08/22/more_young_blacks_ready_to_embrace_gop

Can someone get mediamatters eye on this?

They seem to get every black republican they can find AND Ken Mehlman to give carte blanche to spiel their GOP talking points over and over again, sure to paint the same "these are the good blacks, the ones in suits" picture to white America, complete with actual pictures of young smiling smug black men in suits...

WITH ABSOLUTELY NO DEMOCRATIC COUNTERPOINTS or responses.

This was FRONT PAGE in Mondays Globe.

[progdonkey]

1. looks like it to me...

article in a nutshell:

Democrats tell Blacks they either have to vote Blue or not at all. Some Blacks resent this and are becoming Republicans. The head of the RNC says that the Republican Party offers more to Blacks today than the Democrats. Black Republicans are courageous trendsetters, who stand against an army of other Blacks who are too weak to break from the Democrats.

[funflower]

2. They think being a rethug is part of their path to success in business.

They have no idea of the glass ceiling they're going to hit a few years down the road.

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3. Pretty much--That article made me feel ill...

Not once did this guy say 'why' Why the hell would he be interested in this party? Aside from the promises of 'the American dream,' entrepreneurship, etc.?

I wonder if people like this are signing up for the GOP because they really believe in what it represents, or if they think it is the 'winning horse' and they don't want to bet on the loser?

I'm sorry, but if guys like this want to whore themselves to the GOP, to be their poster child 'of color', that's their perogative.
It's within his rights to buy into their bullshit, and think it's all going to be different for him--and that the party is going to change and be interested in the issues that interest him, Aids, African genocide, etc.

I would love to ask him what color the sky is in his world?

They will use him to attempt to get more of his ethnicity--but they will do little to change their interests. This party wants none of what he wants. If he had any sense, he'd sign up as a Democrat.

If he can't see that the party wants to use him as a poster boy, then let him be used, on the cover of the paper...

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4. It's not even the guy I'm upset with. It's "Kaitlin Bell" and the Globe

editor. Whoever let this writer write such a biased article and then put it on the front page.