Rediscovering History

Hat-tip to Ed Cone for sharing the link and for making the observation that Michael Steele was telling the truth when he told a DePaul University audience this:

"We [the Republican Party] have lost sight of the historic, integral link between the party and African-Americans. This party was co-founded by blacks, among them Frederick Douglass. The Republican Party had a hand in forming the NAACP, and yet we have mistreated that relationship. People don't walk away from parties. Their parties walk away from them. For the last 40-plus years we had a 'Southern Strategy' that alienated many minority voters by focusing on the white male vote in the South."

Look for fresh calls for Steele to resign his chairmanship, for daring to tell the truth about the last four decades of Republicans' taking over the old Southern Democratic playbook on racial politics.