Why Did Black Georgians Vote for Raphael Warnock?

The Daily Signal ^ | December 14, 2022 | Star Parker

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

There are plenty of postmortems about Raphael Warnock’s defeat of Republican candidate Herschel Walker in the runoff for the Senate seat in Georgia.

Yes, in the same state, Republican Brian Kemp won a decisive victory in the race for governor. And, yes, to be kind, Walker was not a great flag-bearer to draw voters, particularly black voters, to the Republican Party.

But let’s ask why voters, particularly black voters, would send Warnock to represent them for another six years in the U.S. Senate.

The Georgia electorate is around 30% black, and 90% of them voted for Warnock.

What are these black voters thinking about?

Warnock is a boilerplate Democrat of the Left, with an agenda of government spending as the answer to every problem, who is also the address to turn to keep the door open to abortion and the LGBTQ agenda.

Atlanta, which is about 50% black, has a poverty rate of 18.5% compared with a national average of 11.6%, and among black adults in Atlanta, 75% are not married, compared with 50% of all adults nationwide.

Is Warnock’s agenda, pretty much the agenda of his party, really what these folks need?

Let’s turn to economist John Cochrane of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. In an essay about the importance of economic growth, he notes that the U.S. economy averaged 3.5% growth annually from 1947 to 2000. Since then, the average has hovered around 2%.

What if the average growth from 1947 to 2000 was 2% instead of 3.5%, asks Cochrane. He answers that average income in 2000 would have been $23,000 instead of $50,000.

Taking 1.5% off the annual growth rate lops off roughly half the average earning potential of working Americans.

[Fury]

Re: 49 - Good grief, what a racist statement.

“…Because that’s what they do…”

Let’s at least be honest, Between these sorts of threads, and the every so often “blacks are bad tippers” threads, let’s at least be honest that blacks are not welcome on Free Republic by quite a few, and perhaps many FReepers.

[JoJo354]

Have you sat down with black folk and talked to them about voting and why they vote as they do? I have and it did open my eyes to how well the Democrats have instilled the opinion that Republicans are racists...period. A lot believe that any black that is Republican or even vote for a Republican is a traitor to the black culture but the Democrats care about them and want to support their communities. This is real and it’s a truth that a lot of people don’t really look into. And I am not racist thank you very much.

[Jacob Kell]

When LBJ signed the Civil RIghts Bill, he supposedly said “I’ll have them n*ggers voting Democratic for the next two hundred years”. Looks like he may have been on to something, may he rot in hell.