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Sarah Palin Aside, RNC Features Little Diversity
By the DiversityInc staff
September 05, 2008
Keywords: diversity, Sarah Palin, Republican National Convention, RNC, National Public Radio, NPR, Black Americans, women Republicans
Despite Sarah Palin's appointment as the Republican vice-presidential nominee, Michel Martin of NPR says the RNC still lacks diversity. "I could not help but notice the diversity that we have actually come to see at Republican as well as Democratic conventions really wasn't there," Martin reports.
RNC attendees are two-thirds men, and the participation of Black Americans is the lowest it's been in 40 years. There are only 36 Black delegates attending the convention--1.5 percent of the total and a drop from 2004, when nearly 7 percent of delegates were Black.
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