Diversity Outreach: You're Doing It Wrong

"Diversity Outreach:You're Doing It Wrong" 12"x16" oil on primed paper  March 2012

Kind of a debacle at the diversity outreach presentation of the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference's "Trump The Race Card" seminar, as in the midst of minority outreach, two white supremacists showed up to defend slavery and segregation in front of the [historically inaccurate] conservative Republican Black speaker and were allowed to speak to a surprised but quiet audience; but a non-conservative Black woman in the audience was booed and shouted down when she raised objections. Another African American conservative was actually thrown out for raising uncomfortable questions. The members of the very groups the seminar was put on to reach were silenced and/or thrown out-on video. I'm assuming that didn't go well.

The Republican party is the ideological heir of much of the Confederacy, even in it's base constituency of the rural south. That tends to make diversity outreach difficult without some unpopular changes.