politicians who represent us. >> let me put this in context of 2016. because i think give at any monolithic nature of the african-american vote a lot of republicans don't even make the ask. rand paul is making the ask. is there anything that he can say that you think can change this equation? >> first of all he can highlight the inconsistencies the opposing party might be throwing in our direction, things that we may not know. that's number one. two, one of the things that you need to do as a republican particularly if you're running for the presidency you have to surround yourself with a bunch of folks that look like us and not just you. that look like hispanics and not just you. take the hispanic community in consideration. right now it says that african-americans are approximately 12.3% of the population. that it's dissipated from 14.8%. okay. now we can debate what the reason for that was. but what is unmistakable is that when you look at the hispanic