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http://news.yahoo.com/juan-williams--son-on-why-he-became-a-republican-040631869.html
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One of the RNC’s hires was Raffi Williams, the youngest son of veteran Washington journalist and pundit Juan Williams. Author of a highly praised book on the civil rights movement, the elder Williams is now best known as a fixture on Fox News, though he spent most of his career at the Washington Post and National Public Radio.
Whereas the elder Williams became known for holding a handful of conservative views mixed with traditional Democratic ones, Raffi —the youngest of his three children — isn't hedging his beliefs: He's a proud Republican.
And while his dad cut his teeth on covering the civil rights movement and metro stories in Washington, the 26-year-old Raffi is taking up the conservative media portfolio for the RNC. It falls to him to grapple with websites like Breitbart News and the Daily Caller that have come from nowhere over the past few years and now play a significant role in reflecting and shaping the zeitgeist of the conservative movement online.
Raffi Williams agreed to talk with Yahoo News about why he is a Republican, why he ended up in a different political party than his father, and what he thinks the party can do to attract more people like him.