Posted on 01/09/2005 9:48:36 AM PST by Trueblackman
THE PERCEIVED STUPIDITY OF THE BLACK VOTER
My father once told me; “That when you become conformably living in a state of stupidity, you tend to want to stay there.”
When I made the choice to leave the Democratic Party over 10 years ago over ideology differences and general disrespect towards my community, I firmly believed that I broke those chains that had kept me tied to their plantation of electoral stupidity.
In the 10 years on the run, I have watched with anger as my community has been used repeatedly as a bullet proof vest to insulate Democratic Party Candidates and Leaders from their supporters when it comes to their repeated failures to win national elections. These candidates, party leaders, supporters and their Black operatives all complain the reason they lost is because Black voters were somehow disenfranchised, had their votes thrown out or suppressed and were intimidated by white Republican operatives, candidates and party leaders.
In 1998 I remember radio ads targeted towards the Black community put together by Jesse Jackson and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that claimed “When we don’t vote Democrat we let another brother get shot, when we don’t vote Democrat, we let another brother get lynched and when we don’t vote Democrat, we let another church burn.” It would seem that Jesse Jackson was willing to help the DNC in their campaign of fear targeted towards our community, the same community he abandon a long time ago for the big house of the Democratic Party.
In 2000, we saw the Democrats and their Black operatives and groups fear tactics targeted towards the Black community take a new twist as it was not good enough for Democrats to claim that a vote for Republicans would return us not only to the days of mass shootings, lynching and church burnings, but a vote for Republicans would return Black America to the days of slavery, mass jailings and a lost of all civil rights. When all these tactics failed and it looked like then Texas Governor George W. Bush would win the Electoral College Vote over then Vice President Albert Gore, Democrats and their Black operatives began a campaign of disinformation and excuses. These Democrats claimed that if all the votes had been counted in Florida’s heavily Black Democratic Areas, then Gore would be President, not Bush. Democrats went as far as to claim that Black voters were disenfranchised and had their votes thrown out, funny how these same Democrats never complained about those Black votes thrown out in New York City due to greater voter spoilage than in Florida, but New York was a state that Gore won by a wide margin and it only counts when it works against a Democrat.
In 2002 Democrats blamed Black voters outright for their failure to capture the House and retain their one vote majority in the Senate. Democrats had sought for over 2 years to fan the flames of hatred of Bush in the Black community and conduct a campaign of disinformation and smear, the battlecry was “Remember what happen in 2000, don’t let it happen again elect the Democrats to protect your vote, “but when their campaign fell flat Democrats and their Black operatives were quick to blame the Black community for not showing up and doing the right thing on election day.
In 2004 Democrats well aware that Blacks were getting a little sick and tired of being taken for granted and perceived as stupid sought to refine their tactics by claiming that electronic voting machines could not be trusted and that Republicans would use electronic voting machines to steal another election because the machines were made in Texas by a Bush supporter, Democrats went as far as to demand and had foreign election observers be brought in to make sure the election was fair.
When it was clear that Bush would win a second term, Democrats then claimed that Black voters in Ohio were disenfranchised because of the weather and long lines on Election Day. Democrats like Congressmen John Conyers went as far as to have mock hearing and had his staff put together a report that listed a whole host of conspiracy theories on why Senator John F. Kerry lost Ohio and thus the Presidency to Bush.
Democratic Senator Barbara Boxers fearful of having her fellow Democrat Senators lambasted again by master film propagandist Michael Moore signed on to an official Congressional Protest from Ohio Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones. Senator Boxer even came with tears in her eyes as Jones rattled off a list of far fetched theories on why Kerry lost Ohio in a vain attempt to turn out Constitutional Republic’s Election Process into a laughing stock, which in the end failed.
I will say one thing I do cry with Boxer over one thing and that is that a majority of Blacks will somehow believe that the election was once again stolen from another Democrat and for those Blacks I do weep, because their chains have been tighten once again and Democrats will continue to perceive our community as being stuck on stupid.
Great piece!
Mega Bump!
I already have a list of great black political role models, and they include Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Star Parker, and Condie Rice, among others. I'll have to add you to my list. Your piece was trenchant and well-written.
Kudos, and God speed.
The democrat party's tools?: Absolute opposition to school vouchers, abortion of millions of black babies, a sick, evil rap/hip-hop culture run by white liberals, oppressive taxes, hostility to religion & Christianity in particular, welfare, the disempowerment of black fathers, and the carefully planned denigration of marraige.
What really gets to me is the Black Caucus. I can't decide if they themselves are among the used, of if they are among the users. I suppose it's some of both. [I think that Sheilah Jackson Lee is a user.] No matter which, the Black Caucus held itself up for ridicule at the electoral college certification.
Very well said.
Very well-spoken (as always).
I've often wondered since 2000 when the Black community as a whole will start getting PO'd that the Democrat leadership is always claiming that Blacks are continuously being disenfranchised due to their lack of intelligence.
When will the black community opens its eyes to the Democratic Party?
Not many blacks have started (yet) voting for the GOP candidate, but more are staying home.
What Hillary wants-no, what she MUST HAVE-is a post-election process to "add back" the votes of her slaves that are escaping the plantation.
Look for a "bipartisan" Help America Vote Act II which will allow some type of statistical manipulation of vote totals to correct for the "undervote" and "discouraged voters".
All in the name of democracy, of course.
From Rice to Thomas to Williams, the assumption is that blacks are Republican tools, that they can't think for themselves, that they're not ethnically "pure" for daring to side with whitey.
The Left's approach to black America is racist paternalism. Human beings don't need to be "helped" by others as a matter of course. Slaves do.
It is part of the conspiracy to keep up poor and stupid. The realization of President's Bush's "Ownership Society" is the END of the Democratic Party.
Up = US
BTW, what do you think of Ann Coulters plan to 'reach out (boy I haae that phrase) to reach out to the Black Community (another hated phrase) by speaking in black churches?
the only treason why black vote for the dems is as they benefit from them and horrible homophobes liek thsode us senators use racism, i tyhink american blacks to show they would defend their nation under pressue must show they would defend the rights of black people by not allying with those who wanted segragation, and had more support for a storm trooper's son becoming the firest foreign president befior enay jew etc, than for fighting lyuncjing the same gos for gays, gays who votre republican are trairots just like americans who suppotrt the killing of americans and teh defeat of them, i mean its not the same for groups that werwe not peresecuted like whites or rich people they are notr being triatours voting for parties whioch do not persecute them but if someone persecuted you liek tehy reopublicans yiou should vote gainst them, as it is treason not to, by teh way stop felling persecuted christinas,. and slo rightists,. and snobby homphobic poor republicans and rich yale educated snobs
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My response to her was, "How is it that voting for someone simply because he's Jewish is any different than voting against someone because he's Jewish?"
The Jews have also been a "Bulletproof vest" for democrats, but that's beginning to change, although way too slowly for my taste.
Mark
Like Armstrong Williams will be skewered for doing basically the same as Moyers & Co. do on PBS.
Like Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is just a dummy.
Like Condoleezza Rice is an intellectual fool.
The beat goes on.
*ahem* Welcome to FR. Where did you learn to spell?
Thank you for writing such a wonderful, well thought out commentary. For too long these people you speak of have kept the races divided and fueled the hatred between us, the people.
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