Media mavens oozed with joy when Colin Powell stepped onto the stage at the 1996 GOP convention to make his maiden oratorical effort as a newly announced member of the Republican Party. The media always enjoys the antics of black activist Jesse Jackson , whose press coverage never flags or fails. Keyes is an uncomfortable aberration to many liberals. Perhaps Keyes' greatest success, win or lose, is his simple refusal to bow before the expected altars of Democratic politics and liberal activism. Keyes' candidacy as a statement on the issue of race in America is resounding and unanswerable.
Blacks can be conservatives.
Unfortunately, he's also proven that the high ideals professed by American liberals are merely pleasant sounding mantras that conceal an ideological bias against upwardly mobile minority members that refuse to pay their dues at the temple of leftist thought. Footer Please report any website related errors to the Webmaster . This is the official website for Keyes 2000, the authorized committee for an Alan Keyes candidacy for President in the year 2000. Alan Keyes is an announced candidate for President. We hope that you enjoy this site and will join us in supporting Alan Keyes for President.