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FEAR OF A BLACK REPUBLICAN
NEWS
January 11, 2013
Contact: Tamara Williams
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
republican national
committee still silent on outreach plans to urban areas and minority
communities
Diversity Issues in GOP
& Two-Party Political System Not Being Addressed
Trenton,
NJ – The Republican National Committee has yet to respond to the Outreach
Challenge issued by Filmmakers Kevin J. Williams and Tamara E. Williams. The FEAR OF A BLACK REPUBLICAN documentary
filmmakers recently challenged the current Republican National Committee
leadership to announce its plans for Party outreach in Urban and Minority
communities before its Winter Meeting in Charlotte, NC in two weeks. The filmmakers also challenged the Republican
National Committee to require all Chairman or Co-Chairman candidates
to publicly present their plans with stated goals for Republican Party
outreach to Minority and Urban voters. As of today, there has been no response
from the Republican National Committee, its voting Members or Staff.
The FEAR OF A BLACK REPUBLICAN filmmakers
stated, “We have found out since issuing our Outreach Challenge last week that
many other Republicans and Conservatives are as disappointed as we are in the
Republican National Committee’s lack of response to our concerns about Urban
and Minority outreach efforts. In two
weeks, our Party will be selecting or re-electing a national Chairman after its
second Presidential Election loss and now Congressional losses. Given the state of the economy and the future
demographic challenges facing America, this upcoming RNC Chairman Election will
be the most important election in the Republican Party’s history.”
In
the most recent Presidential Election for example, President Obama received 81%
of the vote in New York City and this is the largest vote share of any
Presidential candidate in more than 100 years according to
Bloomberg News and AM-New York.
The last
Republican Presidential candidate to win New York City was Calvin Coolidge in
1924.
Three-thousand miles away in LosAngeles County, CA (mostly made up of the City of Los Angeles), President Obama
received nearly 69% of votes versus Mitt Romney’s 29% according to the
Los Angeles Times.
Filmmaker
Kevin J. Williams stood firm in calling on the Republican National Committee to
reveal its plans. Williams said, “Each
Presidential Election, the Republican Party starts out minus 127 Electoral
Votes since the Party concedes the East and West Coasts every time. With New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Washington State, Oregon and California automatically going the Democrats way
every four years, Republicans around the country must force their Party to
change its ways and reach out to new voters.
Without Urban and Minority voters coming on-board, the Republican Party’s
future looks very grim.”
To learn more about the filmmakers or view the film’s trailers,
please go to www.fearofablackrepublican.com.
For interviews or stories, please contact the documentary film’s
Producer - Tamara Williams via e-mail at producer@fearofablackrepublican.com. The filmmakers are also on Twitter
(#FearOfABlackRep) and Facebook (Fear Of A Black Republican).
Film Distribution Information & Synopsis:
FEAR
OF A BLACK REPUBLICAN has been seen by thousands of Americans and has screened
before diverse audiences in Atlanta, GA; Charlotte & Greensboro, NC;
Wilmington, DE; Kansas City, MO; Buffalo & Rochester, NY; Trenton, NJ;
Portland, OR; Washington, DC; Philadelphia, PA; Montgomery, AL; Jackson, MS;
Dallas & Waco, TX; Tucson, AZ; Albuquerque, NM; Salina KS and Chicago,
IL. Former Republican National Committee
Chairman Michael Steele attended both the New Jersey and Washington, DC
Premieres and participated in Q&A sessions with audiences lasting over
ninety minutes each. More screenings of
the controversial documentary feature film are expected nationwide in
2013. The trailers for FEAR OF A BLACK
REPUBLICAN can be viewed on the film’s own website
www.fearofablackrepublican.com, as well as the YouTube, Apple iTunes and Vimeo
websites.
Synopsis: Filmed and
edited over a six year period, FEAR OF A BLACK REPUBLICAN examines why there
are so few Black Republicans (and by extension, other Minorities) and how this
affects the U.S. political system. The
film begins
with a simple question…
Does the Republican Party really want more African Americans? To get an
answer, independent
filmmaker Kevin J. Williams takes a non-partisan journey over two Presidential
Elections to find out why there are so few Black Republicans and what that
means for the future of the Two-Party Political System in America.
From the
Civil War to the Great Depression, the GOP was the Party for many
African-Americans, but today, barely 10% of African Americans consider
themselves to be Republican and Urban areas are no longer considered
competitive parts of America’s Election map. Beginning in his hometown,
Williams speaks with BOTH Democrats and Republicans as he takes a personal and
humorous look at his own Republican Party’s efforts in urban areas versus the
suburbs, the Democratic Party's success in retaining the African American vote,
the seeming phenomenon of Black Republicans and what this all means for
America. FEAR OF A BLACK REPUBLICAN gives audiences of all Demographics and
Political Persuasions a ground-breaking and moving view of American Politics.
During
the film’s journey, Williams speaks with scholars such as Professors Cornel
West and Howard Taylor; and newsmakers such as
Michael Steele, former Chairman of the Republican National Committee;
Presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and John McCain; former
Governor Christine Todd Whitman; Commentators Tavis Smiley and Michelle Malkin;
political leaders, including past RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman, Congressman Peter
King and Governors Jim Gilmore and Sonny Perdue; Conservative thinkers such as
Newt Gingrich, Grover Norquist and Ann Coulter; and the first and last Black
Republican Senator popularly elected since Reconstruction, former Senator
Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, amongst others. Congresswoman Maxine Waters,
Senator and President-Elect Barack Obama, President George W. Bush and
Vice-President Dick Cheney also appear in the film, along with very
rarely seen archival footage of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Vice-President Richard M. Nixon and the great baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson.
The film also examines the History of the Republican Party since its founding.
FEAR OF A BLACK
REPUBLICAN is available on DVD at its own website and Amazon.com and also on VOD
streaming via its own website and Apple iTunes.
It is also available for Education use and has screened or is currently
being used on college campuses such as Northwestern University, Portland State
University, Tuskegee University, Loyola Marymount University, Jackson State
University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
The film has
received Print, TV and Radio coverage from the Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Current TV's THE WAR ROOM WITH JENNIFER GRANHOLM, HUFFINGTON
POST LIVE, Christian Broadcasting Network's The Brody Files, Al Jazeera's INSIDE
STORY, the Mark Davis Radio Show,
Steve Deace Show, Michael Eric Dyson Show,
Chris Stigall Show, Victoria Taft
Show, The Voice of Russia and many others.
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