07-19-2016, 10:42 PM
Deep crisis indeed..
Quote:Meanwhile, the racial gulf separating Republicans from urban America was on stark display this weekend. It’s not just that Republican delegates, reflecting their party’s demographics, are almost universally white. It’s also clear that the 3,000 local volunteers the party recruited to guide delegates and journalists as they navigate the city also reflect the GOP base, racially and generationally. Though Cleveland is a heavily African American city, the guides are overwhelmingly white, and though standing on street corners offering directions is a young person’s job, the GOP official in charge of the volunteers was quoted in Sunday’s Plain Dealer that two-thirds of them are over 40. That’s today’s Republican Party.Convention: A City on Edge