A number of years ago, I was between flights on a business trip and sitting in an airport restaurant having lunch.

It was right after the 2008 presidential election, and I knew that the election of America’s first black president, a man of the hard left, would make my job bringing a conservative message to black communities much more challenging and difficult.

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