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Black Media Ignored By Whitman
By: Jasmine Lowe
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Wed, 07/28/2010 - 13:07
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She’s already skipping this Saturday's candidate's forum at the San Francisco Christian Center on black and Latino issues sponsored by the California Foundation. Invitations were sent to both Meg Whitman and Democratic Party candidate Jerry Brown in May. Brown immediately accepted, but the Whitman campaign only informed the forum's producers last week about Whitman's "scheduling conflict."
She’s avoiding interviews and ducking the hard hitting questions. She refuses to go anywhere too “urban” but you can’t go more than a half hour without hearing or seeing a Meg Whitman commercial.
So far the only time she even came close to being seen or heard near a black person throughout her campaign was the ad she ran during the primary with her endorsement from former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
And if Whitman continues her strategy of avoiding African Americans, the only time you'll see the former EBay CEO around many other African Americans between now and November election may be the ad with Condoleezza Rice.
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