NEW YORK CITY — Twenty-year-old Princella Smith, a Ouachita Baptist University junior, savored a rare opportunity for someone her age as she addressed the Republican National Convention Aug. 31.
“Over a decade ago, a fellow Arkansan at a national convention talked about a place called Hope,” Smith said in a reference to former Democratic President Bill Clinton. “Now I would like to talk about another small town in Arkansas — a place called Wynne.”
The junior history and political science double major from Wynne was chosen to represent young Republicans at the convention in a national essay contest sponsored by the RNC and MTV’s “Choose or Lose” campaign. Smith was senior class president at Wynne High School. As a young black woman, she acknowledged she doesn’t fit the stereotypical Republican profile. “They want to show the diversity in the party, and I’m a prime example,” Smith told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
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