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Originally Posted by mikej
I acknowledge that there are a few black republicans. I even named two.
At the Republican convention, I saw one face in the entire audience. The cameras panned him several times.
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http://www.nbra.info/
http://ohioblackrepublicans.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...an_Republicans
http://www.theblackgop.com/
Really? Here is just a few of many webpages for black republicans. Heres a list of names in politics for you as well.
Claude Allen, former White House Domestic Policy Advisor
Akindele Akinyemi, CEO of One Network and Conservative Educator
Renee Amoore, health care advocate & founder and president of The Amoore Group, Inc.; former candidate for RNC Co-Chairwoman
Pearl Bailey, singer and actress
J. Kenneth Blackwell, former Secretary of State of Ohio, former gubernatorial candidate
Peter Boulware, former NFL linebacker and Republican candidate for the Florida House of Representatives, District 9.
Jennette Bradley, former Treasurer of the State of Ohio
Edward Brooke, former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, first African American elected by popular vote to the U.S. Senate
Janice Rogers Brown, a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals
Blanche Bruce, former U.S. Senator from Mississippi, first African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate
Victoria Buckley, former Colorado Secretary of State [1]
Keith Butler, Republican national committeeman from Michigan, former councilman for Detroit, minister and former U.S. Senatorial candidate
Herman Cain, businessman and media personality
Jennifer Carroll, Florida State Representative [2]
Clarence H. Carter, Director of the District of Columbia’s Department of Human Services, former administration official under President George W. Bush [3]
Octavius Valentine Catto, civil rights activist and African American baseball pioneer
Henry P. Cheatham, former U.S. Representative from North Carolina
Eldridge Cleaver, author and civil rights leader
William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr., fourth United States Secretary of Transportation, first African American Supreme Court Clerk [4] [5] [6]
Ward Connerly, political activist, businessman, and former University of California Regent
Stanley Crouch, American music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, and novelist
Oscar Stanton De Priest, former U.S. Representative from Illinois
Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, editor, orator, author, and statesman
Clyde Drexler, former professional basketball player
Larry Elder, talk radio host and commentator
Robert Brown Elliott, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina
Melvin H. Evans, former U.S. Representative from, and former Governor of, the U.S. Virgin Islands
Charles Evers, civil-rights leader in Mississippi, brother of Medgar Evers
James L. Farmer, Jr., civil rights leader
Arthur Fletcher, official in the administrations of Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush; considered the "father of affirmative action"
Gary Franks, former U.S. Representative from Connecticut
Paul R. Green, Jr., retired Senior Master Sergeant, U.S. Air Force, Businessman, former candidate California State Senate
Jeremiah Haralson, former U.S. Representative from Alabama
Ted Hayes, activist for the homeless
Erika Harold, Miss America 2003
John Adams Hyman, former U.S. Representative from North Carolina
Roy Innis, civil rights activist, founder of Congress of Racial Equality
Niger Innis, commentator and activist
Alphonso Jackson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Wallace B. Jefferson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas
Timothy F. Johnson, Ph.D., Chairman, Buncombe County Republican Party North Carolina
Justin Jordan President of Texas College Republicans , Conservative Activist
Alan Keyes, former member of the Republican party and nominee for the U.S. Senate.
Alveda King, former member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Niece of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don King, boxing promoter
Yaphet Kotto, actor
John Mercer Langston, former U.S. Representative from Virginia
Jefferson Franklin Long, former U.S. Representative from Georgia
John Roy Lynch, former U.S. Representative from Mississippi
Lynette Boggs, former Las Vegas City Councilwoman, former Clark County, NV commissioner, former candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives
Angela McGlowan, political analyst
Donald K. McLaurin, mayor of Trotwood, Ohio [7]
Karl Malone, former professional basketball player
James Meredith, civil rights leader
Thomas Ezekiel Miller, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina
George Washington Murray, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina
Steven Mullins, Connecticut politician, First African American nominee for State Comptroller in state history. West Haven Commissioner.
Charles Edmund Nash, former U.S Representative from Louisiana
Dr. Belinda Noah, attorney, law professor, and 2006 candidate for the Florida United States Senate
Rod Paige, seventh U.S. Secretary of Education
Gregory Parker, Comal County Commissioner, Commissioner Texas State Commission on Emergency Communications
Sherman Parker, Missouri state representative, running for U.S. House of Representatives
Edward J. Perkins, first African-American U.S. ambassador to South Africa
Samuel Pierce, former HUD Secretary
P. B. S. Pinchback, twenty-fourth governor of Louisiana; first African-American governor of a U.S. state
Homer Plessy, plaintiff in Plessy v. Ferguson
Colin Powell, first African-American U.S. Secretary of State
Michael Powell, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
Jesse Lee Peterson, civil rights activist, founder of Brotherhood of New Destiny
Joseph C. Phillips, actor and commentator
Pierre-Richard Prosper, former Bush Administration war crimes official
Kristal C. Quarker, Health and Education Policy Advisor to Representative Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI-11), 2008 Chairwoman of the Black Republican Congressional Staff Association
Joseph H. Rainey, former U.S. Representative from South Carolina, first African American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives
James T. Rapier, former U.S. Representative from Alabama
Hiram Rhodes Revels, former U.S. Senator from Mississippi, first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate
Condoleezza Rice, sixty-sixth U.S. Secretary of State
Frances Rice, Chairman of National Black Republican Association
Jack E. Robinson II, former U.S. Senate nominee from Massachusetts
Vernon Robinson, former candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina
Angel Joy Rocker, former candidate for President [8]
Joe Rogers, former Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, youngest Lieutenant Governor in Colorado history
Carson Ross Mayor of Blue Springs, MO, Fmr. Missouri State Rep.
Robert Smalls, South Carolina
DeForest "Buster" Soaries, former New Jersey Secretary of State
Thomas Sowell, economist, writer and commentator
Michael S. Steele, political commentator, former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, former candidate for the U.S. Senate and elected chairman of the RNC.
Sage Steele, television sports anchor
Lynn Swann, former NFL player, former Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate
Noel C. Taylor - Mayor of Roanoke, Virginia from 1975 to 1992.[9]
Clarence Thomas, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court
Sojourner Truth, abolitionist speaker and suffrage advocate
Sheryl Underwood, comedienne and entertainer
James L. Usry, former mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey
William T. Vernon, Registrar of the Treasury under President Theodore Roosevelt [10]
Dale Wainwright, Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court
Jimmie Walker, actor and comedian
Eric M. Wallace, Publisher of Freedom's Journal Magazine [11]
Zachary Ward, economist
Booker T. Washington, educator and activist
Maurice Washington, Nevada State Senator
J. C. Watts, former U.S. Representative from Oklahoma
Ida B. Wells, civil rights advocate, co-founder of the NAACP
Allen West, candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from Florida
Armstrong Williams, radio and television commentator
Michael L. Williams, Texas Railroad Commissioner
Walter E. Williams, author, commentator, economist
Vern Williams, member of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel
J. Ernest Wilkins, Sr., Assistant Secretary of Labor under President Eisenhower [12]
Anthony Keith Womack , Minister, Educator and Philanthropist