Posted on 03/15/2024 7:45:38 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Glad I have your attention now. Because we do have issues we care about.
I’m a 38 year old black man from South Carolina. But I don’t pretend that, as a Black man, I speak for everyone who looks like me. I’m just not that arrogant nor am I crazy as hell.
On the other hand, I’m also not stupid. I travel a lot escaping my own personal echo chamber whenever I get the chance and I listen more than I talk. Whether I’m sitting in the barbershop, praying in church, waiting in the airport or walking down the street. I listen and I apply what I hear to the history I know, the world I see before me and the common sense I was born with.
I listen and, for the past several months, I’ve heard the same refrain again and again from Black men: “If you want our vote, then you better care about our issues.” You see, over the years I’ve written a great deal about how Black voters in general and Black men specifically constitute one of the most consequential and most loyal voting blocs in America. Now, while that is certainly true, it’s not by accident. Whether we’re talking about the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 or making lynching a federal hate crime for the first time in American history, appointing more black women to the appeals court than any of the other president and driving Black unemployment to its lowest point in 50 years, that loyalty hasn’t been expected. It’s been earned.
Now as the pundits increasingly talk about Black men as a determining swing vote, that loyalty can’t be taken for granted.
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No....Blacks went from SLAVES, then REPUBLUCANS AFTER THEY WERE FREED......homes and marriages STRONG, then came along LBJ, and he BROKE UP THE FAMILY and said “I’ll have these n@ggers voting DEMOCRAT for 200 YEARS!!
It indicates that the women can no longer count on black men for protection, and have to do their own violence.
not anymore...
WAKANDA ?
Or south africa when it was ruled by whites?
It’s culture, not color.
I think it’s because they have PROBABLY had ABORTIONS.....they have KILLED THEIR OWN, so harming strangers is no big deal.
Individuals can be bad or good.
But they have a mountain of vibranium ... even rarer theb unobtanium and far more useful.
^ this
They don’t need my help or your support.
And, i also know some very gentle, peaceful black persons. But that does not change the fact that the black male population votes 91% Demorat and its 6% commits 60% of the murders. And, when deciding how to live life, we must make some stereotypes that will always be wrong some of the time. People who don’t do this intelligently at a casino are called “losers.”
I just wasn’t sure what you meant you were walking away from.
Exactly my point.
Culture matters.
B all means!
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