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09/06/2004:

"End of the rainbow"

In 2000 the Republicans paraded their diversity. But now the party is showing its true colour - white

by Gary Younge

General Colin Powell is missing in action. At the Republican convention in 2000 he led from the front, opening a line up that could have been set up by Jesse Jackson's Rainbow coalition. Of the three co-chairs in 2000 one was black and another Hispanic; national security adviser Condoleezza Rice kicked off prime-time coverage one night while Chaka Khan serenaded George Bush.

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