Posted on 02/14/2020 5:46:07 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
About a month ago, an advertisement popped up on the black gospel radio station The Light 103.9 FM where I live in Durham, North Carolina. It was voiced by a woman who sounded like she was in her mid-50s, with the lilt of an educated urban black Southerner. Although I wasn't consciously listening at first, it caught my attention. It was a political ad, the first I'd heard on the radio this election cycle, and I wondered which candidate was bothering to actively campaign in North Carolina well before the March 3 Super Tuesday primary.
Normally, ads on this station are for big-box stores, loan companies and the local women's expo so what I was hearing stood out. As the narrator talked about investing in our social safety net and protecting Social Security, she was also hitting President Donald Trump hard, pulling no punches while reminding listeners what's truly at stake as he runs for re-election. Then I heard former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg's voice, and I wondered what in the world was going on.
Crass calculation or not, Bloomberg has been putting black voices front and center in his advertising. And he shouldn't be the only one doing it. Where is the rest of the field? It doesn't take millions to broadcast on black radio, where advertising is cheap.
The time to invest directly and boldly in engaging black audiences is past due for the rest of the Democratic field. After all, they need the Obama voters who stayed home in the previous cycle to return. These voters can be won over: They are progressive and concerned, and they are a working-class bloc that can help turn swing states blue.
Bloomberg is spending a fortune, but this key lesson about the black electorate can be learned for free.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D., is a writer, historian, professor and dean. She is the author of "Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson" and hard at work on a new monograph called "Black Folk: The Promise of the Black Working Class."
Bloomberg has already bought the DNC and I’m sure the MSM will fall into line with their wishes. Every other candidate is a weakling or has too many skeltons. They will ignore Bloomberg’s hypocrisy and portray him as a “rational” and “progressive” billionaire, in contrast to the “irrational” and “far right” billionaire in the White House. The articles are already being written before Bloomberg wins his first delegate.
The Dems were going to have a really tough time getting black support, or at least black turnout, to begin with.
And that is because they cannot paint Trump as a flat-out racist, as they paint every other Republican...and that is simply because Trump has BEEN IN OFFICE - that kills the racist narrative. Sure they’ll try, but it won’t sound credible to virtually any voter (black or otherwise).
So running “Stop and Frisk” Bloomberg...sorry, that’s just icing on the case.
Hopefully Blacks will elect Trump as he is pushing inner city school choice, a GRAET thing for Black kids and their families.
So they are going to set aside their hatred for Jews?
A billionaire racist Jew like Mike Bloomberg?
Okay.
More jobs, higher wages, better schools...
People of every pigmentation need more racist pols like Trump!
She’s just 2020s version of Jesse Jackson.
Pay her enough and she would fawn over a segregationist.
Media is desperately trying to pump up mini mike.
NOT A GOOD IDEA. Do you want to end up like this???
The black community hates Jewish people??? That’s quite a generalization.
MORE DEAD COPS.
From the blowback from blacks on her twitter about this, she’s walking back the blind praise.
“Not an endorsement an observation. People were wondering about the numbers. He’s not my candidate. I know about him.”
If he gives every black person a $100 bill Bloomturd might get a lot of their votes. Hell, I’d vote for him.
Because he will stop and frisk them before they enter the voting booth?
Naaah, because he will pay off black “thought leaders” to back him.
Mini-MiKKKe!
“After all, they need the Obama voters who stayed home in the previous cycle to return. These voters can be won over”
They can be won over by Michael Bloomberg? LOL. Sure they can. This piece is a paid advert by the Bloomberg campaign.
Hahaha, okay.
They hate Viet Namese people too. Also white people, and black people who are too dark.
May come as a shock, but there’s all sorts of hate, anger and envy there.
I bet.
She must not know how it is before she wrote this.
They’re not going to back Mayor Petey either.
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