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  • - HELLO, AND WELCOME TO THE FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING

  • OF THE TALLAHASSEE BLACK REPUBLICANS.

  • NOW, I'M PISSED! all: MM-HMM.

  • - ROYALLY PISSED! all: MM-HMM.

  • - LAST NOVEMBER, BARACK OBAMA WAS RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT,

  • AND THE BLACK VOTE WENT ALMOST ENTIRELY TO HIM!

  • [crowd murmuring] - DAGNABBIT.

  • - WE'RE NOT GETTING OUR MESSAGE OUT, OBVIOUSLY.

  • THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS AND SHOULD BE

  • THE ONLY HOME FOR BLACK VOTES. - YES, SIR.

  • - NOW, PEOPLE THINK THAT BLACK VOTERS ARE A MONOLITH.

  • [scoffs] WE'RE NOT A MONOLITH.

  • - WHAT? WHAT? - NO, WE'RE NOT.

  • - IN FACT, BLACK REPUBLICANS ALONE

  • ARE AN EXTREMELY DIVERSE GROUP OF PEOPLE.

  • [crowd murmuring agreement]

  • NOW, TO SPEAK MORE ON DIVERSITY,

  • I PRESENT TONIGHT'S SPEAKER,

  • MR. DOUGLAS JACKSON.

  • [applause]

  • [applause ends abruptly]

  • - NOW, I'M NOT GONNA SUGARCOAT IT, I'M PISSED!

  • [crowd murmuring agreement]

  • I'M ROYALLY PISSED.

  • THE LIBERAL MEDIA THINKS THAT REPUBLICANISM

  • IS NOT FOR BLACK PEOPLE. all: MM.

  • - NOW, YOU TELL ME, WHAT ABOUT FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY,

  • A STRONG NATIONAL DEFENSE, AND A LIMITED GOVERNMENT

  • IS UNAPPEALING TO BLACK PEOPLE?

  • WE'RE NOT A MONOLITH! all: MM-MMM.

  • - WE COME IN ALL DIFFERENT SHAPES AND SIZES.

  • - WE DO. all: MM-HMM!

  • - NOW, WHO HERE WOULD LIKE TO COME UP TO THIS PODIUM

  • AND SPEAK ABOUT THE DIVERSITY AMONGST BLACK REPUBLICANS?

  • - [clears throat]

  • - OH. [chuckles]

  • GENTLEMEN, WE HAVE A REAL TREAT TODAY,

  • A GENTLEMAN WHO IS A LITTLE BIT ECCENTRIC,

  • A LITTLE BIT OUTSIDE OF THE BOX, IF YOU WILL,

  • BUT I CAN'T THINK OF A BETTER PERSON TO SPEAK

  • ON DIVERSITY AMONGST BLACK REPUBLICANS

  • THAN THIS GENTLEMAN RIGHT HERE.

  • ALL THE WAY FROM ORLANDO, MY GOOD FRIEND,

  • ARTHUR WASHINGTON!

  • [applause]

  • IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU. IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU.

  • GOOD TO SEE YOU, MAN.

  • [applause]

  • [applause ends abruptly]

  • - THANK YOU FOR THE INTRODUCTION,

  • BROTHER DOUGLAS.

  • - THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE, BROTHER ARTHUR.

  • - MM-HMM.

  • HOWEVER, I AM... PISSED.

  • [crowd murmuring agreement]

  • ROYALLY PISSED.

  • - INDEED, INDEED! - ALL RIGHT.

  • - DEMOCRATS THINK THEY HAVE THE RIGHT

  • TO ALL THE BLACK PEOPLE.

  • BUT THAT IS NOT THE CASE.

  • WE ARE NOT A MONOLITH. [crowd murmuring agreement]

  • DEMOCRATS MAY BE COOL, BUT THEY AIN'T PRACTICAL.

  • - THERE YOU GO. [crowd murmuring agreement]

  • - REPUBLICANS ARE PRACTICAL.

  • BLACK PEOPLE ARE PRACTICAL!

  • COME TO THINK OF IT... - GET THOSE PANTS.

  • - I THINK BLACK REPUBLICANS ARE PRETTY COOL.

  • [crowd murmuring agreement] - HEAR, HEAR, HEAR, HEAR.

  • - NOT TO MENTION VERY DIVERSE.

  • - THERE WE GO. MM-HMM. [door opens]

  • - EXCUSE ME, GENTLEMEN. SORRY TO INTERRUPT.

  • SOMEONE'S WHITE WIFE IS HERE TO PICK THEM UP.

  • [all murmuring]

  • - WAS HER NAME EMILY?

  • - UH, SHE WAS WHITE. - OH, GREAT, THAT'S--

- HELLO, AND WELCOME TO THE FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING

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