Posted on 10/14/2005 11:25:25 AM PDT by lpeterboyd
White People Won't Vote for Blacks, Congressman Charges
By Nathan Burchfiel
CNSNews.com Correspondent
October 14, 2005
(1st Add: Includes details about Voting Rights Act)
(CNSNews.com) - The chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus on Friday urged his Capitol Hill colleagues to extend and strengthen the Voting Rights Act in order to "level the playing field" because, U.S. Rep. Melvin Watt said, "white people ... will not consider voting for an African American candidate."
Watt, a Democrat from North Carolina, made the remarks at a Washington hearing held by the National Commission on the Voting Rights Act. The commission, a project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, is conducting nationwide hearings to gather data on voter discrimination for a report it will issue supporting the extension of the Voting Rights Act.
Watt told Cybercast News Service that his views are based on a 1980s blind poll of North Carolinians, which he said revealed that 30 percent of whites would not vote for a black candidate under any circumstances.
Watt told the commission that if another poll were conducted today, "there would be a substantial majority of white voters who would say that under no circumstances would they vote for an African American candidate." He later amended his comments, allowing that "some of them would."
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I'd vote for Condi.
How did Obama manage to get elected with only 15% of the voters.
White People Won't Pay for Blacks.
:-D )))
Seriously, I'll vote for black people. I just won't vote for idiots.
...and J.C. Watts
Congressional Black Caucus lost credibility long time ago. Sounding more like Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton now.
"there would be a substantial majority of white voters who would say that under no circumstances would they vote for an African American candidate."
As long as the Blacks continue to allow "Reverends" like Sharpton, Jackson, and Farrakhan speak for them, he's RIGHT!
White Democrats won't vote for a Black Democrat...but White Republicans will vote for a Black Republican.
They kept counting the 15 percent over and over until it made a majority.
Talk about a racist statement.
I haven't done the research, but I'd wager that a study of voting patterns would reveal that when a black candidate is running against a white candidate, a greater percentage of whites vote for the black candidate than the percentage of blacks voting for the white candidate.
Anyone out there studied this?
Give us some reasonable, conservative black candidates, and you'll get most whites' votes.
If either Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams decides to run for office, I'll not only vote for them, I'll cut them a check.
Hey Melvin! Then how in the hell did you get elected?
Idiot.
Why didn't you post the full article? CNS News doesn't require an excerpt.
...and Michael Steele
Most white people won't vote for racist African Americans, like the majority of those in the Congressional Black Caucus... Just like most blacks wouldn't vote for someone like David Duke.
I wonder how J.C. Watts got elected with only 7% of the vote?
2. Mayor Webb in Denver (under 20% black)
3. Douglas Wilder in Virginia (white majority state)
4. Mayor Willie Brown in San Francisco (14% black)
5. Senator Albert Brook (MA overwhelmingly white at time)
6. Senator Carolyn Mosely Braun (won the white female vote)
I'm a W.A.S.P., and I voted for Alan Keyes in the 2000 primaries. So what does that make me?
p.s., Is Keyes a Freeper? I could have sworn I saw someone logged in under his name yesterday.
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