The Republican party has to begin appealing to hispanics, to blacks, to asians, because that’s who we have lost to a large extent in recent elections. And you can’t appeal to them just by saying, you know… Pull up yourself! You know, uh, pull up by your bootstaps, and no more welfare. These sorts of loaded statements.

This is balls-to-the-wall racism. Don’t think so? All you have to do is think about it. How should the GOP appeal to “blacks”? What exactly does a “black” voter want out of his government? Nothing. There is no special formula for appealing to blacks, because not all blacks think the same way. Some of them are crazy, like Alan Keyes and Willie Lawson, the Rational Black Man; some of them are irresponsible, hapless moochers like our friend, Peggy Joseph; but none of them think exactly the same way.

How would one go about appealing to a skin color? It cannot be done; skin color does not think. The only thing that can be appealed to in the way that Mr. Powell is thinking is a mind– and minds do not have a skin color.

Colin Powell is a racist.