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I'm reminded of the Republican Party's recent chairman Michael Steele. One of the microscopically few black men, percentage-wise, in a party of almost entirely white people, and he suddenly becomes Chairman, and the timing happened to be just before or just after (I forget which) the election of Obama, a black man, to the Presidency. Coincidence? I think not.

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Maybe, but you would be surprised how many conservative black people there are.

One of the biggest is Thomas Sowell (I used to read his stuff without knowing that he was black).

Which is worse? A party with few minorities but many at the top, or a party with lots of minorities and relatively few at the top?

Where I live (in America), the party with lots of minorities is the Democratic party.

I'm pretty sure the functional head of the Democratic party is black. If something happens to him, the second and fourth people in line to replace him are women. Oh, and there's another black guy at number seven. And three asian guys in the list. And a half-Lebanese guy. And a few more women. And a couple Latinos. Huh. The Democrats seem to have a fair number of women and minorities at the top...

What country and party were you talking about?

P.S. At least one of the asian guys is a huge nerd, which is another under-represented minority, IMO.

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