"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
- Buckminster Fuller
Conservatives need to build a new model based on THIS tribe.
Posted on 11/04/2009 5:25:34 AM PST by Overtaxed Patriot
Mary Norwood swept predominately white precincts of the city Tuesday, and also found support in key black precincts, while former state senator Kasim Reed dominated his base in southwest Atlanta and had a strong showing in predominately black areas of northwest and west Atlanta.
City Council President Lisa Borders saw support collapse throughout the city, giving her a weak third-place showing.
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Despite balmy weather Tuesday, turnout was low, even for an off-year election.
In 2001, when Shirley Franklin first ran for mayor, 41 percent of registered voters cast ballots. Tuesday, only about 24 percent of registered voters showed up. In many predominately black areas away from Reed’s stronghold in southwest Atlanta, voter turnout was extremely low. At the polling station of the Central United Methodist Church on Mitchell Street on the West Side, only 4.63 percent of registered voters cast a ballot. In many southwest Atlanta precincts, more than 30 percent of registered voters turned out.
Throughout the day in predominantly black sections of the city, Reed volunteers wearing T-shirts with his red and blue logo could be seen on street corners waving placards or driving down thoroughfares in trucks calling for people to vote. Borders’ signs could be seen around the city, but her get-out-the-vote effort was far less apparent.
Many voters on the fence about Reed seemed to be convinced in the end he was their man. Ralph Dickerson, 52, voted for Reed Tuesday at the West Side Community Church on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. He said for him the issue was not race, but politics. He said Norwood struck him as a “closet conservative” who would try to privatize city services, something he opposes. He said Borders seemed unimpressive to him and he had not seen her in his community.
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I am tired of “that certain voting block” being the caboose running this train.
I wish all businesses that worship at the altar of “that certain voting block” would suddenly have to rely on that group for their profits ie the NFL and NBA
Burger King learned that lesson a few years ago when all their commercials targeted the minority population. And they got the business of the minority population at the expense of the rest of the population.
A local Burger King in my city went out of business because the minority employees were giving away so much free food to their minority friends.
McD’s is as bad - instead of demographic proportion, one would think 80% of their U.S. customers are minority. Fine with me. Own it.
It's not just affinity voting - it's specific government programs designed to favor blacks at the expense of everyone else. Most working blacks benefit from affirmative action education, hiring and contracting policies. And portion of the black population that doesn't want to work benefits from cradle-to-grave welfare policies that provide free housing, medical care, food and spending money. Republicans endanger all of these things. The question isn't why a black person would vote Democratic - it's why wouldn't he?
It’s called “tribalism”.
At some point, people have to ask "haven't we paid enough yet"?
I wonder when blacks will wake up to the fact that the only time liberals care about them is on election day.
It doesn’t matter to them how much liberals “care about” blacks, as long as the checks keep coming.
I can always spot minority owned businesses, because all of the employees are minorities. A white owned business couldn’t get away with that. There would be discrimination lawsuits right and left.
I saw this many years ago in Japan where at the PX's and Commissaries the Japanese employees (Mandated) undercharged or did not charge their own for much of the merchandise/food that passed over the counters. It was an open secret and nobody ever did anything about it. Uncle Sugar took the hit.
So I guess that means that blacks don’t mind being slaves after all.
Then the government got involved, and sued him for discrimination because he didn't have enough blacks on his payrolls. The irony is brain crushing.
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