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Last month we took a look at the Republican party’s attempt to denounce the “Southern Strategy” while making no effort to stop using it or roll back its benefits to them.

The hypocrisy continued last week in Atlanta where Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman:

stood before a roomful of black journalists last week fielding pointed questions about his party’s mostly shaky relationship with black voters.

Asked about the southern strategy that used race as an issue to build GOP dominance in the once Democratic South, Mehlman acknowledged that Republican candidates often have prospered by ignoring black voters and even by exploiting racial tensions. But he pledged that such neglect is a thing of the past. “Our plan for 2006 and 2008 is to increase African American turnout,” he said crisply.

But at a gathering of Republicans in Pittsburgh, it sounded like more of the same:

The theme of the Republican Party’s summer meeting this weekend was expanding its base. The keynote speaker was a GOP senator who blames radical feminism for wrecking the home, equates same-sex marriage with bestiality, finds public schools suspect and believes that abortion is worse than slavery.

How many African Americans will support a party that minimizes slavery?