White People Won't Vote for Blacks, Congressman Charges

CNSNews.com ^ | 10/14/05 | Nathan Burchfiel

[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."

[manwiththehands]

I would vote for Michael Jackson ... if he ran as a Republican against Melvin Watt.

[Eagle Eye]

Keyes may be black but he isn't Black.

Bil Clinton, however, isn't black but he's Black.

Go figure.

[Lee'sGhost]

racist.

[My2Cents]

I detest white leftist morons as much as I do black leftist morons. I think I'm pretty colorblind on the matter.

[Jibaholic]

Condi is too liberal. I would vote for Alan Keyes, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams or Larry Elder.

[Michael.SF.]

Before I ever voted for a Kennedy or a Pelosi here is a list of A. Black that I would vote for first.

[SE Mom]

What an IDIOT. Does this guy think only blacks have voted for the black men and women who currently serve our country as elected representatives in state and local government?

To say nothing of how MUCH happier thousands of white people would have been ever so much happier with the choice of Brown for SCOTUS?

Oooops- it's not really about color is it? It's all according to the narrow definitions they apply.

[Darnright]

Dr Noel C Taylor, a black Republican, was mayor of Roanoke, Virginia from 1975 to 1992.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Lt. Gov Steele
Herman Cain

[Zionist Conspirator]

U.S. Rep. Melvin Watt said, "white people ... will not consider voting for an African American candidate."

Well, I've voted for Alan Keyes in Presidential primaries, but I suppose he doesn't count. I guess one isn't a "real" African American unless one is in favor of Communism, homosexuality, abortion, evolution, porn, drugs, and removing all references to G-d from public life (using things like welfare and affirmative action as fig leaves to hide behind).

So, "real" African Americans in North Carolina are leftwing crazies, huh? I never will figure out why all those Black Fundies in the pews are such leftwing intellectual when it comes to politics.

[MortMan]

White voters rarely vote for any politician whose sole qualification is the color of their skin.

[tcostell]

No white people care about race anymore unless they are in the business of appeasement. "The right" black person could get elected anywhere in the country. Not Al Sharpton, he can't get elected anywhere...not Jesse Jackson. But if someone like Thomas Sowell ran for office there isn't a white person I know who wouldn't vote for him.

[libs_kma]

What an idiot. I'm white and I'll be voting for Ken Blackwell to be the next Governor of Ohio.

Unless someone is a blatant race pimp like Jesse or Al, or a Black Panther or NAACP member then I'm not concerned about color.

[robertpaulsen]

See post #62 -- even if he got every black vote, that would only give him 36%.

[VRWCTexan]

Gerrymandering in southern states, as controlled by DU legislatures, was done to create many so called "black districts" - including the one held by S. McKinney ....

Here in Texas the DU's stalled for years following the 2000 census to reapportion the districts (as required by law) - they went so far and to send DU state legistatative members out of state to New Mexico to avoid the mandate of the state legislature to vote on these issues.

Finally it was accomplished (with DeLay's assistance) and yes the democraps remain totally PO'd

[45Auto]

From the article:

"The number of white Americans who would refuse to vote for a minority candidate is "decreasing," Watt conceded, but he maintained that the Voting Rights Act should "adjust districts to take [racially motivated voting] into account."

Voters refusing to vote for a minority candidate "need to be factored out of the equation," according to Watt, because "I've got no use for them in the democratic process."

So, since voting districts are based on where people live, this moron wants to set up segregated living conditions, i.e., all black voting districts. Yeah, that sure will go a long way to establishing civil rights.

[uncitizen]

So the DumRats are hypocrites?

[My2Cents]

Dittos. And Ken Blackwell. For course, Mr. Watt probably doesn't consider these "black."

[tiki]

Watt???????????????

[Night Hides Not]

Former U.S. Representative J. C. Watts must have gotten some votes from the pale faces.

This is just so tiresome

You summed it up...good job.

If this is what the Democrat Party has to offer for 2006 and beyond, then Pubbies have little to fear (unless they keep pi$$ing off conservatives to the point they stay at home).

I'll be waiting to hear from other Democrats denouncing these remarks, but I certainly won't hold my breath.