Posted on 10/22/2014 4:55:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
African-Americans are engaged in intense discussions about the race and justice issues raised this summer. But the Senate candidates – many in tight races that could determine control of the chamber – aren’t talking about Ferguson.
Ankeny, Iowa — In the razor-thin Senate race in Iowa, Tara Patterson, a sought-after African-American voter, is deeply disappointed that neither candidate is talking about what’s most important to her: race and justice issues that can be summed up in one word, Ferguson.
The mother of a son in middle school and another in high school says she wants “African-American boys to be able to grow up and feel equal and not feel inferior.”
And not end up like Michael Brown, the unarmed black teen who was fatally shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 9. The shooting triggered riots and protests, a grand jury and federal investigation, a congressional hearing, and a firestorm of national media coverage.
In the Senate races in Iowa and elsewhere, where Democrats must have high African-American turnout if they want to retain control of that chamber, the candidate silence on Ferguson is deafening.
Democrats are making an unprecedented midterm effort to get black voters to the polls on Nov. 4 – registration drives, targeted radio advertising, pitches from President Obama to black audiences. Yet Ferguson could undermine that work, some pollsters warn....
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
The Christian Science Monitor tacitly admits that Ferguson was a contrived event meant to drive the Democrat party’s black slaves to the polls.
Mister Magoo could see that.
Pay attention in school.
Keep your pants up.
Don't Loot.
Don't do Drugs.
Don't attack the POlice.
Precinct captains do all the voting.
“What’s most important to her-race.”
That pretty much says it all.
She needs to be curving that finger back to point to herself.
Well, Mama, a good start would be to teach your sons to be respectful of those in authority, to study hard in school, and to instill pride in hard work and honesty.
Instead, this loser mother is more jacked about 'the man' and other assorted racial BS.
They should have brought in two black observers to diffuse this. Their choice of whom.
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