“There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.”
Jack Kemp
“[Lynn Swann] has a far better chance to be heard in the African-American community than the average Republican. It's critically important for him to be visible and for him to come into the community and talk about his platform and issues specific to the African-American community.”
Randall Taylor
“The Republican Party has recently taken great pains to reach out to the African-American community, and I hope that they will be swift in condemning Mr. Bennett's comments as nothing short of callous and ignorant,”
Harry Reid
“But what I learned from my experience in living in a community of almost all African-American people, and what I learned from my experience in living in my own community in Oklahoma before the relocation is that poor people have a much, much greater capacity for solving their own problems than most people give them credit for.”
Wilma Mankiller
“Rudy Giuliani in 1997 was despised by the African American community, however, he went to a debate at the Schomburg Research Center with Ruth Messinger. Why are you afraid of going to Harlem and debating?”
Fernando Ferrer
“We're urging the African-American community to come out to donate blood. We want to fulfill that need,”
Donald Bailey
“Far and away the worse toll is taken in the most vulnerable community, the African American community, where black women are three times more likely to have an abortion than their white counterparts.”
Starr Parker
