Michael Steele Is A Very Willing "Token" For The GOP!

So,Michael Steele will use his "blackness" to bring "change" to the Republican Party.As it's new head,Michael Steele has come up with a tried & true strategy to reform his struggling party.In order to remain relevant,he has decided that the way to modernize the GOP is through hip-hop.You see,Michael Steele believes that will be the way to win more votes.Does he care anything at all about the hip-hop community?What is his strategy when it comes to dealing with poverty & the host of other issues that plague most in the hip-hop community?

I would be interested in hearing how he will deal with the problems that are expressed in the lyrics of many rappers who come from the ghetto.But of course,Michael Steele is only interested in the amount of votes he could generate from celebrities & their fan bases.In other words,Michael Steele is a very willing "token".He knows full well that he is only the head of the GOP because they desperately need the minority vote!Now,he's looking to hip-hop not because he's a fan of the genre,like President Obama.Michael Steele just wants to find more tokens for the Republican party.Here's more on his phony hip-hop endeavor from The Village Voice:

"Now, this comes as no surprise from a party that famously managed all of 26 total black delegates at the 2008 Republican National Convention, a figure that was good for slightly less than 2% of the total delegation. This, among other things, represented a 40-year-low: a flashback to 1968 for a party that was running against an African-African candidate in a country that's 15% black. Michael Steele was there of course, getting his credentials in order: we have him to thank for "Drill Baby Drill."

Add the murderous drubbing the Republicans took from so-called hip-hop voters (a demographic approximated by mashing up the African-American vote and the youth vote, which both swung overwhelming Democratic compared to 2004, to the tune of as many as 73 electoral votes), not to mention actual hip-hop stars, and Steele's coronation was probably inevitable. And not because Steele was likely to be more effective. The tokenistic-type magical thinking that the Republicans awkwardly flashed in Minneapolis basically prophesized the party's ensuing blind faith that a moderately qualified former Lieutenant Governor and current Fox News talking head would, by virtue of being black, somehow turn back the tide.

And Steele, apparently, is going to get very complicit with this myth indeed:

"There was underlying concerns we had become too regionalized and the party needed to reach beyond our comfort" zones, he said, citing defeats in such states as Virginia and North Carolina. "We need messengers to really capture that region - young, Hispanic, black, a cross section ... We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-surburban hip-hop settings."

Nevermind that "urban-surburban hip-hop settings" are fundamentally deaf to a message that involves enormous emphases on incarceration, draconian drug laws, regressive taxes, and the shredding of whatever meager social safety net still remains in this country. "Under Mr. Steele's helm," writes the piece's author, Ralph Z. Hallow, "the 'old' may seem inappropriate in the Grand Old Party's affectionate nickname. [Steele] said he is putting a new public relations team into place to update the party's image. 'It will be avant garde, technically,' he said. 'It will come to table with things that will surprise everyone - off the hook.'"(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here.