Actor Samuel L. Jackson -- Vote Your Race

Townhall.com ^ | February 23, 2012 | Larry Elder

[Kaslin]

What if actor Clint Eastwood gave an interview in which he explained why, in the 2008 presidential election, he voted for John McCain: "I voted for McCain because he was white. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people -- because they look like them. ... That's American politics, pure and simple."

No, Eastwood did not say that. But actor Samuel L. Jackson did, in explaining why he voted for President Barack Obama -- "because he was black." Jackson also said his vote had nothing to do with Obama's agenda: "(Obama's) message didn't mean (bleep) to me." If Eastwood had said stuff like this, a cry to boycott his films would come from everybody from the NAACP to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

But the popular Jackson, who played in more films during the '90s than any other actor, makes an incredibly racist statement and it's ... yawn.

Jackson insists he just does what every voter does. If they did, Obama could not have been elected U.S. senator from Illinois (15 percent of the state is black, 72 percent white) or the president of the United States (13 percent black, 72 percent white).

How does Jackson explain Obama's election in a country where people vote their race? Simple, you see. Obama isn't really a black man -- at least as defined by Jackson: "When it comes down to it, they wouldn't have elected a (n-word). ... A (n-word) is scary. Obama ain't scary at all. (N-words) don't have beers at the White House. (N-words) don't let some white dude, while you in the middle of a speech, call (him) a liar. A (n-word) would have stopped the meeting right there and said, 'Who the (bleep) said that?'" White voters, according to Jackson, voted for Obama because they found him un-black or semi-black or quasi-black.

Obama did, in fact, lose the white vote -- as has every white Democrat presidential candidate since 1964. But Obama outperformed Democrat John Kerry, who ran in 2004, pulling in 43 percent of the white vote to Kerry's 41 percent.

How does the vote-my-race Jackson explain the 2010 elections of black House Republicans Tim Scott and Allen West, in South Carolina and Florida, respectively? Scott won in a district that is 75 percent white and 21 percent black. West won in a district that is 82 percent white and 4 percent black.

Polls repeatedly show that only a small percentage of Americans refuse for vote for a black person. A 2006 Times/Bloomberg poll found that 3 percent of voters would not vote for an otherwise qualified black candidate. But 4 percent wouldn't vote for a woman, and 14 percent ruled out voting for a Mormon.

What if people chose movies the Jackson way? What if blacks only saw movies about or starring other blacks? What if sports fans only saw players or teams that consisted solely of athletes who looked like them?

Back in 1980, an advertising magnate named Ted Stepien purchased the abysmal Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team. Stepien thought he had a formula for success. White fans, he said, like to watch white players. Because the Cavaliers' stadium was then located between Cleveland and Akron, a demographical area that is predominately white, Stepien felt fans would come if the players looked like them.

Stepien employed the Samuel L. Jackson formula. He stacked the team with white players for the white fans. Stepien made a series of bad player trades that hurt the team's competitiveness for years. The team played even worse than before. Embarrassingly, the league eventually instituted the "Stepien rule," forbidding any team from trading its first-round pick in consecutive years. The team also drew even fewer fans. White fans, Stepien learned, did not enjoy watching white players lose anymore than watching black ones lose.

Confused? According to the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., a black president is a problem -- for black people: "A white president, frankly, could be pushed a great deal more than we would push President Obama because nobody would accuse him or her of having partiality toward African-Americans. So it's a tough spot. It also means we still have a long way to go in terms of race relations in this country, and the President has, I think, moved through these troubled waters about as well as any African-American could, becoming the first black president."

Cleaver says black lawmakers make fewer demands of the Obama administration than they would have under a McCain presidency. To follow Cleaver's logic, blacks should have voted for McCain because he would not be labeled as preferring blacks -- unlike the way a black president would be so labeled.

To sum up, Rep. Cleaver tell us that he expects a black president to do less for blacks than would a white president. And actor Jackson tells us that he votes for blacks just because they are black. This might explain why moviegoers stayed away Jackson's recent movie, "Snakes on a Plane."

Why, how could people decide whether to see the film -- without knowing the race of the snakes?

[N. Theknow]

Jar Jar Binks was better in Star Wars than Samuel L. Jackson.

[xrmusn]

The black racist block vote can be counted on by almost any black pol running against a white candidate

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I can go along with that, it is a good explanation of why Maxine Waters keeps getting reelected BUT we must remember that Northern Virginia keeps sending Jim MorOn back, Frank in Mass, and countless other ‘idiots - on both sides of the aisle’ are shoo ins and keep adding to their personal fortunes while their constituents are struggling.

[wordsofearnest]

To summarize the old joke. “You’re firing me because I’m black.” “No we hired you because you’re black, we’re firing you because you’re incompetent.”

[ridesthemiles]

Note to Samuel Jackson:

I will take your sage advice:

I will NEVER attend any film EVER again in which you participate.

I will NEVER buy a DVD of anything you are associated with.

I will NOT do business at a small company which is opeerated by BLACKS or visibly staffed by BLACKS.

I will do my very best to avoid ALL BLACKS for the rest of my life.

I will NEVER donate another cent to any group which does anything for BLACKS in particular.

Since I am too poor to even file a tax return, the only source of revenue from me to BLACK recipients is sales taxes & my property taxes. I cannot control that.

BUT—I am DONE with doing any business with any BLACK person.

Thanks for your sage advice........Good Luck.

[wardaddy]

lol...my first thought too

but we better make sure it's the right one first...peckerwoods often ain't what they used to be:

Allen West could be an honorary peckerwood any day...about any white Democrat and many white Republicans ain't worthy of the title

[Zionist Conspirator]

The black racist block vote can be counted on by almost any black pol running against a white candidate.

Unless the black pol is conservative, when the black racist block vote will go to the white liberal.

[LibLieSlayer]

Indeed... he has been in many movies... one of his biggest was Pulp Fiction... with John Travolta and Bruce Willis.

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

As the post below this one states... Jar Jar was 100% better than sam... he stunk the movie up.

LLS

[SaraJohnson]

Vote our skin cause if you vote with our brain, the brother is in for an early retirement by a landslide.

Samuel is not so good at diversity race math.