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So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.

I don't think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it's the old white guy party.

The party of Lincoln should be reaching out to blacks, Hispanics gays and so forth and so on.

So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.

You can get elected to Congress without ever talking to black voters at all, and I think that's bad for the party.

I think the black community is no different from any other community. We need to take responsibility for how we live together. We need to be personally responsible for keeping our streets clean, our schools safe, and our houses peaceful.

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.

There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.

The Republican Party just isn't held in high repute in the black community. Under Bill Brock we were reaching out to broaden the base of the party. We have to go back to that.