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• Position: No Comment - Lawrence Wilkerson on racism - Brief article

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former chief of staff and a registered Republican, said on MSNBC's The Ed Show: "My party, unfortunately, is the bastion of those people--not all of them, but most of them who are still basing their positions on race. ... Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists." Wilkerson went on: "The real reason a considerable portion of my party wants...