Posted on 08/08/2022 9:56:44 AM PDT by Salman
DETROIT (AP) — State Rep. Shri Thanedar won the Democratic primary in Michigan’s 13th Congressional District this week, topping a field of nine candidates in a district that covers most of Detroit and potentially leaving the predominantly Black city next term without Black representation in Congress for the first time since the early 1950s.
Results from Tuesday’s election show Thanedar, an immigrant from India, defeating state Rep. Adam Hollier and attorney Portia Roberson. Martell Bivings, who is Black, ran unopposed in Tuesday’s Republican primary for the 13th District, but is a longshot to win the general election in the heavily Democratic district.
Detroit has not been without a Black representative in Congress since before Charles Diggs Jr. took office in 1955. Diggs was joined in Congress in 1965 by Democrat John Conyers, who retained his congressional seat for more than 50 years.
Detroit is nearly 80% Black, and all of the other candidates in the primary were Black.
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But he's not capital-B Black so gotta be a problem, right?
Those black representatives have done what for their black constituents?
Typical AP comment.
Shri Thanedar
Black, in leftist circles, now means a specific flavor of leftist, and has almost nothing to do with skin tone.
They should vote for the Republican. Problem solved.
Who cares. It only makes a difference if the elected official is a racist who is demanding free stuff, funded by others, for that constituency. It’s immoral and it’s covetous.
This article is an execrable scrap of racist fish-wrap. I recall when Tom Bradley back in the 70’s became the first black mayor of Los Angeles, a city with a non-black majority. That was a victory for a color-blind society and “equity”, not an occasion for gnashing of teeth. People like these authors who would say “well, this is completely different” are the root of the problem.
As any Democrat will tell you, “our democracy” is threatened whenever the People are allowed to vote.
The political control of the country by Democrats (AKA “our” democracy) cannot co-exist with a republic that values the Rule of Law.
Then it isn't about Black representation, it is about Black Democrat representation.
This article is race baiting at its finest.
Wow! The racism in the headline of this article is so completely obvious!
So?
What positive benefits have resulted from having a black, Democrat representative?
And the disgusting AP says that as though there is someone else to “blame” other than the 3/4 black population.
Who says someone from India can’t be Black. There’s Kamala Harris.
If the KKK itself had been the reps for Blacks they never could have gotten away with the damage that the Black Caucus has done.
So only black skin people can represent black skin people?
"I said no no no, the West Indians are N_____s, these people are Wogs." - The Major (Fawlty Towers)
And, remember frens, that it is Wayne county votes that are held for last and will ALWAYS turn the Michigan election to Democrat but sheer force of numbers.
The mass media likes their blacks obedient Democrats.
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