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| A Newly Elected Black Republican Has a Message for His Party’s Leaders | A Newly Elected Black Republican Has a Message for His Party’s Leaders |
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| Wesley Hunt is a Republican representative-elect from Texas. Young and socially conservative, he is an Army veteran, a West Point graduate and a native Texan. He is also Black, in a party that has tacitly embraced racist rhetoric from some of its loudest voices. But Hunt says that rhetoric doesn’t define the G.O.P. or the future of his party. | Wesley Hunt is a Republican representative-elect from Texas. Young and socially conservative, he is an Army veteran, a West Point graduate and a native Texan. He is also Black, in a party that has tacitly embraced racist rhetoric from some of its loudest voices. But Hunt says that rhetoric doesn’t define the G.O.P. or the future of his party. |
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