Posted on 12/11/2011 8:22:05 PM PST by Steelfish
One Black Woman's Personal Mission To Reelect Obama The president may need an even bigger African American turnout this time and political dynamos like Gerri Hall to help him get it.
Gerri Hall, a lifelong Democrat who grew up poor in Mississippi, has made it her personal goal to see that President Obama is reelected. This time around, Obama's chances may depend even more on a strong turnout by black voters. December 11, 2011
By Mark Z. Barabak December 11, 2011 Reporting from Flint, Mich. Growing up poor and black in Mississippi, Gerri Hall learned there was a meanness in the world, a set of laws and customs aimed at people like her, which her mother tried to explain once when they were forced to stand aside and let a white lady use the sidewalk.
"Honey," Hall remembers her mother saying, "that's just the way it is in Mississippi."
But there was also love and pride and determination in rural Greenwood, along with a belief that things could and would eventually change and the way to change them was within her grasp.
"In order to make a difference," Hall says her father often told her, "you've got to understand politics and get involved."
Fifty years later, there is a black man in the White House and Hall is firmly rooted in the middle class, with a nice home in a leafy neighborhood, a pension from her 30-year job at General Motors and enough savings to help her grown son buy a starter place of his own.
"Things have definitely gotten better," she allows, "in terms of tolerance and coexistence and people getting along."
Hall is not, however, satisfied. For the next year, she has one overriding goal: to see that President Obama wins a second term...
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Yet another Black American who endured either racism or the civil rights era and stupidly thinks Obama has anything in common with that experience whatsoever. His mother is descended from slave owners, and his father is descended from slave traders. He has NOTHING in common with the American Black experience. Why wasn’t this woman trying to get Herman Cain elected?
Who was it that expanded Medicare and Medicaid to cover many, many more people than it was originally designed to cover?
So DEMOCRATS ... SHUT UP!!! You have no integrity!!!
Are they really so spoon fed that they don't have the wherewith-all to read Wikipedia on Jim Crow laws? Even with the liberal bias attempting to label the segregationists as "conservative", they must concede multiple times it was the Democrats who lead the segregationists.
The President is about to sign a law that makes it so we can be imprisoned for life without evidence or a trial -- as soon as Dec. 13.
This law is called NDAA Section 1031. Some people are saying he will veto it, or that the law as written has no effect for citizens, but they are terribly mistaken.
Obama has never suggested using a veto to stop Section 1031 citizen imprisonment. In fact, applying Section 1031 to citizens was requested by the Obama administration.
Stop NDAA Section 1031 Citizen Imprisonment Law before Dec. 13
If she is presenting power point slide shows that urge the congregation to vote and passing out Obama newspaper articles in the back of the church then shouldn’t this “church” lose its tax-exempt status? Someone needs to look into the activities of this “church”.
Separation of Church and State.
Now you see it, now you don’t.
Obama is a puppet being controlled by His New World Order Masters, he will not deliver anything he promises as we have seen.
So its time all wake up and get his butt out of our White House.
“Obviously an idiot. She cannot see how Obama has hurt the black race.”
She also doesn’t see what the Democrat party have done to keep blacks on the reservation. Yes, she is an idiot.
...as long as you get yours, right? KMA, commie.
Gerri, baby, those laws and customs were brought to you by the democratic party for whom now you toil.
Idiot.
And this is news because?
Because it's medicine for the soul. It's there to remind us that guilt is an acceptable substitute for reason when choosing a President.
May she fail.
How many more than 100% would be a better turnout in the black community? ..................................... 110% don’t seem to be a problem in some Democrat districts, why would that be a problem? A trip to the local grave yard gets them additional voters.
I thought it was going to be about Oprah.
Me, either. I'm Irish on my Dad's side and Cajun on my Mom's. My grandad came from County Cork and my Mom's people - the Millets - came from Baton Rouge.
No one from either side ever had a Massa Card. This racist, redistributionist, 'reparations' crowd can KMA.
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