He isn't a RINO. The way he has been treated is ridiculous. To assume every non-white face is the hired help will never help the GOP.
What makes you say that - because he has a problem with having to justify his blackness to blacks and his conservative-ness to right wingers? Or is it because he feels that a solid way to permeate the black community with a conservative message is from within (which lead him to the chair of the Oakland NAACP?).
So does this mean that any Republican who doesn't agree with you 100% on each and every issue is a RINO? Who made you final arbitor of who is or is not a conservative?
I happen to agree with him. While Back may not be a racist, his statements could lead individuals to believe that he is. And when a black man like Reeves, or myself for that matter, discusses the GOP or conservatism with a black audience, we have to deal with that obstacle. That's simply a statement of fact.
Just as it was wrong for Trent Lott to insert his Johnston & Murphy's into his throat, Back was just as wrong to indulge in shoe leather.
Is there any wonder as to why conservatives find it difficult to encourage minorities to even look at the GOP when there are people like this running around? Back's letter reenforces the lies and innuendo that left-wingers spout all day long, day in and day out. When they accuse us on the right as being hate-mongers, they have but to point to crap like that. And then any credibility that I have been able to gain goes straight down the drain. I'm left in a perpetual state of rebuilding credibility and trust.