Juan Williams' son hired by the GOP

Juan Williams' Son To Run GOP Outreach To African Americans, Youth

• George Bush won 35 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2000 and 43 percent four years later, but the votes of Black Americans have remained firmly in the Democrat camp.
• The GOP needs to return to their Civil War and Reconstruction era roots and aggressively support both economic freedom and Civil Rights for all Americans if they want to be a majority party.

A significant part of the Republican Party's future rests on the shoulders of Raffi Williams, the 24-year-old son of Fox News' Juan Williams.

Breitbart News reports that Raffi Williams will be the RNC's deputy press secretary and will be tasked with helping the GOP make inroads in these communities.

He told BuzzFeed that even though it is not realistic to expect Republicans to "get a ridiculous amount of African Americans in the next election," the party can "can start to make inroads, and the more inclusive we are as a party the better optics we get to other demographics as well — not just African Americans — and that helps us in the long run."

US Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels
Republican - Mississippi (1870)
The GOP had a lock on the Black vote,
but threw that away by refusing to stand
up for the right of Black Republicans in
the South to vote for the GOP.

Williams was a Communications Director for the Republican Study Committee and worked for Rep. Dan Benishek's (R-MI) reelection campaign.

After losing every minority group badly during the last election cycle in a country that is getting more diverse, the RNC conducted an "autopsy" report that identified the problems the GOP has had with minority voters. Williams said RNC Chair Reince Priebus is enthusiastic about his efforts and it seems like he will be given the resources to succeed.

"So it's about making those new connections and getting the support I need. People are really enthused about it," Williams said. "And that's a nice thing for me. I didn't know what I was walking into exactly but from the Chairman on down everyone is so on board with this."

Republicans may be able to win over black voters after Obama leaves office because many blacks tend to be conservative on issues like immigration and gay marriage.

For instance, George W. Bush won 16% of the black vote in Ohio in 2004, largely because many culturally conservative black voters went to the polls to vote against gay marriage. In 2008, Obama won 97% of the black vote in Ohio.

And in 2012, Obama received 96% of the black vote in Ohio, but blacks made up an astounding 15% of Ohio's electorate on election day, which made the difference for Obama in the state.

(Breitbart Big Government)

BLACKS IN THE SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE DURING RECONSTRUCTION
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2 3/8" x 4" card with photographs of 63 members of the Legislature of South Carolina during the period of Reconstruction --50 Black Republicans and 13 whites. Some of the more notable figures include Joseph Hayne Rainey, the first black seated in the U.S. House of Representatives (1870), and William Whipper who helped found the first African American law firm.