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Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele urged members of the NAACP to count the Republican party as an ally during a speech at the NAACP Convention in New York. Steele also poked fun at past Republican speeches to African-Americans.

"I spent some time looking at previous remarks by Republicans before this body," he said, "and I was struck by the litany of phrases that Republicans often cut and paste into a speech to this organization. ... 'Party of Lincoln' four or five times ... oh, and one of my favorites, 'Bull Connor was a Democrat.' "

Read the full story by Krissah Thompson at the Baltimore Sun