President Barack Obama’s team is looking to hire more
African-Americans, a search that has stirred a debate among black
Democrats about Obama’s record on diversity and its implications for his
reelection.
Stefanie Brown, director of the campaign’s African
American Vote program, wrote in an “urgent” March 21 email to contacts
in the black community that “The Obama for America campaign is in the
process of really staffing up in states around the country, and I need
your help to find qualified, African American candidates for some of
these positions.” The email, a copy of which was obtained by POLITICO,
notes that “this is a fast moving process and your (quick) support is
greatly appreciated.”
Campaign manager Jim Messina created and runs a working
group “dedicated to ensuring that we are looking at a diverse pool of
applicants for jobs” — both African-Americans and members of other
minority groups — a campaign official told POLITICO, and Latinos for
Obama was launched on Wednesday.
The diversity push — and specifically the effort to hire
African-Americans — isn’t just on the campaign side: In Washington, four
officials from the White House personnel office and lobbying shop met
Monday with chiefs of staff for members of the Congressional Black
Caucus to discuss building a better pipeline for black staffers to move
from the Capitol to the White House. An administration official
emphasized that the White House reached out to the CBC, not the other
way around, and said the meeting was coincidental to the campaign’s
efforts.
Until
this story ran, it never crossed anyone's mind that Team Obama was pretty much lily white. What does it say about Team Obama that Fox News needs to keep them honest to their own publicly professed principles?
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