Posted on 01/09/2005 9:48:36 AM PST by Trueblackman
THE PERCEIVED STUPIDITY OF THE BLACK VOTER
My father once told me; “That when you become conformably living in a state of stupidity, you tend to want to stay there.”
When I made the choice to leave the Democratic Party over 10 years ago over ideology differences and general disrespect towards my community, I firmly believed that I broke those chains that had kept me tied to their plantation of electoral stupidity.
In the 10 years on the run, I have watched with anger as my community has been used repeatedly as a bullet proof vest to insulate Democratic Party Candidates and Leaders from their supporters when it comes to their repeated failures to win national elections. These candidates, party leaders, supporters and their Black operatives all complain the reason they lost is because Black voters were somehow disenfranchised, had their votes thrown out or suppressed and were intimidated by white Republican operatives, candidates and party leaders.
In 1998 I remember radio ads targeted towards the Black community put together by Jesse Jackson and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that claimed “When we don’t vote Democrat we let another brother get shot, when we don’t vote Democrat, we let another brother get lynched and when we don’t vote Democrat, we let another church burn.” It would seem that Jesse Jackson was willing to help the DNC in their campaign of fear targeted towards our community, the same community he abandon a long time ago for the big house of the Democratic Party.
In 2000, we saw the Democrats and their Black operatives and groups fear tactics targeted towards the Black community take a new twist as it was not good enough for Democrats to claim that a vote for Republicans would return us not only to the days of mass shootings, lynching and church burnings, but a vote for Republicans would return Black America to the days of slavery, mass jailings and a lost of all civil rights. When all these tactics failed and it looked like then Texas Governor George W. Bush would win the Electoral College Vote over then Vice President Albert Gore, Democrats and their Black operatives began a campaign of disinformation and excuses. These Democrats claimed that if all the votes had been counted in Florida’s heavily Black Democratic Areas, then Gore would be President, not Bush. Democrats went as far as to claim that Black voters were disenfranchised and had their votes thrown out, funny how these same Democrats never complained about those Black votes thrown out in New York City due to greater voter spoilage than in Florida, but New York was a state that Gore won by a wide margin and it only counts when it works against a Democrat.
In 2002 Democrats blamed Black voters outright for their failure to capture the House and retain their one vote majority in the Senate. Democrats had sought for over 2 years to fan the flames of hatred of Bush in the Black community and conduct a campaign of disinformation and smear, the battlecry was “Remember what happen in 2000, don’t let it happen again elect the Democrats to protect your vote, “but when their campaign fell flat Democrats and their Black operatives were quick to blame the Black community for not showing up and doing the right thing on election day.
In 2004 Democrats well aware that Blacks were getting a little sick and tired of being taken for granted and perceived as stupid sought to refine their tactics by claiming that electronic voting machines could not be trusted and that Republicans would use electronic voting machines to steal another election because the machines were made in Texas by a Bush supporter, Democrats went as far as to demand and had foreign election observers be brought in to make sure the election was fair.
When it was clear that Bush would win a second term, Democrats then claimed that Black voters in Ohio were disenfranchised because of the weather and long lines on Election Day. Democrats like Congressmen John Conyers went as far as to have mock hearing and had his staff put together a report that listed a whole host of conspiracy theories on why Senator John F. Kerry lost Ohio and thus the Presidency to Bush.
Democratic Senator Barbara Boxers fearful of having her fellow Democrat Senators lambasted again by master film propagandist Michael Moore signed on to an official Congressional Protest from Ohio Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones. Senator Boxer even came with tears in her eyes as Jones rattled off a list of far fetched theories on why Kerry lost Ohio in a vain attempt to turn out Constitutional Republic’s Election Process into a laughing stock, which in the end failed.
I will say one thing I do cry with Boxer over one thing and that is that a majority of Blacks will somehow believe that the election was once again stolen from another Democrat and for those Blacks I do weep, because their chains have been tighten once again and Democrats will continue to perceive our community as being stuck on stupid.
There are many white democrats who believe this stuff too. I work with at least one.....
Unfair or not, it happens. Because AA has been touted for many years the perception is becoming in general what the liberals seem to truly believe, that people who aren't like them are mentally inferior, except "Asians" who are conniving geniuses who must be pushed back a page or two.
You missed my point.
An honestly earned degree would be all that is require.
With AA you are throwing that degree (an thus the person holding it) into doubt.
I also think it's a damn shame.
wow.
never heard of either experiment in communism, but they appear to be atrocious in their ultimate effects.
Okay I understand. I don't get how a person knows a black person wasn't helped in that way but I see your point. It's a bad policy.
heh!
Chortle! I've been known to typ under the influence, from time to time ... grateful for that backspace key :-).
"Typso" is also a Freepism, growing in popularity, which means a typing error that creates real humor, not just an ordinary "typo." "Typso" is a singular-and-plural noun (like "moose"): One typso, two typso, all your typso are belong to us.
I have a ping list for the very best typso I find.
How come you can type "yale" and "homophobe", but not "not" (notr) or "goes" (gos). You're a fraud.
If you're a foreigner just learning English, please accept our apologies. It happens.
Even cats hit the correct key occasionally!
They are, indeed, atrocious in their ultimate effects, and WL is still around. Every now and then NEA discovers that the students in one district or another are learning to read 2 or 3 years ahead of other districts and WL gets imposed again. My wife is an elementary ed teacher who has experienced that. The quicker teachers descended n the used book stores (before the WEB) and scoured old book catalogues for phonics primers because the school board confiscated all the official ones they had been using in one day. The next year and, at great expense of course, they went back to actually teaching phonics.
No. Not "meese?"
that's absurd.
I believe the NEA would indeed do this, but it is patently absurd.
ahhhhhhhh... I had wondered about that term... you had me in the bewildermentness.
Thank you for your efforts, Kevin.
Sorry about that ... glad you're found :-).
One meese, two meese? "I don't know who made that meese in the bathroom, Mom!"
I recall that there were some methods of recounting in Florida that would have led to a Gore victory and some that would have to a Bush victory.
But the real reason there was disenfranchisement was the tens of thousands of voters, mostly black, who were wrongly put on the felon list. Here's how it happened. The company that created the felon list decided to identify names by running a search on their computer, comparing the voting list to the felon list. All that was needed to show a match was the same birthday, an 80% match on the name, and the same race and gender. In a massive state like Florida, that means tens of thousands of people. In terms of race, the number of purges will follow the exact same percentages as the prison population -- that is, mostly black.
So the big issue to me is not the stopping of the recount or even the butterfly ballot. It's the fact that tens of thousands of people, majority black, couldn't get to the polls at all.
Again, please don't think I wish Gore won. I'm just saying that, if you look at the facts honestly, he probably would have won. Now I'm no Pollyanna: I know that politics is a tough business and both sides play hard to get an upper hand. Making it harder for blacks to vote is a way that Republicans do that; trying to get everyone and their mother to be able to register, with no real standards at all, is how the Democrats do it. Both sides are guilty. Given that I'm black and a Republican, I guess my loyalties are split, but in the end, I'm for a fair vote, and if I lose, I lose.
"It would seem that Democrats only care about so-called voter disenfranchisement, when it affects their candidate."
Of course. That's politics. And like I said, even a broken clock is right twice a day. Calling them hypocrites is accurate, but not a counter-argument.
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