What difference at this point does it make?
They skated on that one too.
On October 16, 1901, shortly after moving into the White House, [Republican] President Theodore Roosevelt invited his adviser, the African American spokesman Booker T. Washington, to dine with him and his family. The event provoked an outpouring of condemnation from white [Democrat] politicians and press in the American South. This reaction affected subsequent White House practice and no other African American was invited to dinner for almost thirty years. — Wikipedia article
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