[...] They could have made an unwavering commitment to end racial discrimination in the workplace, marketplace, courthouse and schoolhouse.
They could have pledged to spend as much money on treating drug addicts as they spend on incarcerating them.
They could have pledged to reduce the unemployment rate among black males to roughly the same level as that of white males, with a special effort to find meaningful jobs for ex-convicts and prison parolees. That would help address the fact that blacks are incarcerated at rates four times their percentage of the population.
Republicans could have pledged to put black schoolchildren on the same learning curve as white children within the next decade.
And they could have asked to be held accountable at the ballot box if their commitment on any of these issues gets wobbly. [...]
| You really ought to read Don Campbell's USA Today opinion essay "The GOP's problem with blacks" on post-convention woulda-could-shouldas
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