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Its a shame that the congressional Republican Leadership didnt travel to Selma to pay their respects to their colleague John Lewis on this historic anniversary. A shame and a missed opportunity.

It was Woody Allen who said 80 percent of success is just showing up, and if Republicans want to be successful in attracting more voters, they need to show up at events like this.

Now, there will be Republicans there. Sen. Tim Scott, George W. Bush, Sen Rob Portman, a couple dozen others.

Lest we forget, there would have been no Civil Rights Act and no Voting Rights Act without the Republican Party.

I admire Tim Scott greatly.

He is very good human being, very humble, very focused, and very brave. It takes courage to run in a Republican primary in South Carolina as a black man, but he had that courage and he has done very well. as a result.

I think his election shows that Republicans of all stripes have decided that we should look at the quality of the candidate, not the candidates skin color, when we decide how to vote.

We are still paying the price today for a history of unfathomable discrimination against black people.

You cant routinely underfund schools, break up families, throw people in prison (so they can work for you for free, in many cases), deny opportunities to advance, and then expect the African American community to not sustain lasting damage.

And as a matter of the budget, we are reaping what we sowed. How much do we spend to pay for the prison industry or welfare programs or food stamps?

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Republican leaders should have gone to Selma