Posted on 11/08/2018 2:44:32 PM PST by Altura Ct.
As cars clogged the parking lot outside Highlands Public Library, Tony Maxwell was certain his state was on the cusp of electing Florida’s first black governor. “It’s nice to see black people doing something early,” said Maxwell, 53, an African American retired naval officer, voting two days before Election Day. Gillum’s candidacy elicited an excitement on Jacksonville’s predominantly black north side that was unseen since the election of Barack Obama as president.
“When we vote, we win,” was one of Gillum’s trademark phrases, and Maxwell and his friends believed it.
They voted. Still, their candidate lost.
Democrats in Florida and Georgia awoke Wednesday feeling a complicated mix of emotions after two rising black political stars and would-be governors appeared to fall painfully short of victory.
That pain was even more acute in African American communities, which sought to show how powerful they could be as a voting bloc in a divisive political period. There was deep disappointment, of course, and in some cases defiance and anger, over racist attacks that targeted both candidates, and, at times, hope that perhaps important lessons were learned for future candidacies.
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“If you vote in a Communist black person how does that help black people?”
It doesn’t...but they still won’t get it. Obama twice? Give me a break.
I’ve never thought to search my soul after and election. Is that something a lot of people do?
Same in Arizona, it appears.
Bell curve, anyone?
Until and unless black quit playing the race card they will Always be an underclass.
Hell with em
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