Bristol Palin Backs Stephen A. Smith: ‘Every Black Person Should Vote Republican’

The Inquisitr ^ | April 24, 2015 | Steph Bazzle

[2ndDivisionVet]

Bristol Palin says that Stephen A. Smith has it right when he declares that for one election cycle, every black person should vote Republican. She says that when you listen to his logic, it “just makes sense.” Tricks to get large groups to swap parties, without a solid political reason, aren’t exactly uncommon, but the logic Smith and Palin are employing here is mind-boggling.

Here’s Stephen A.’s idea, initially published by Breitbart.

Currently, the majority of black voters vote for Democrats. He believes this demonstrates that the average black person would never vote Republican, leaving both parties’ candidates thinking they needn’t make an effort for the black vote, since it’s unchangeable. Thus, neither party will do anything that would benefit the black voter, and black people suffer with no politicians meeting their needs.

Bristol Palin thinks this is brilliant — that it will “upset the apple-cart” and show politicians that things “aren’t the way they have always been.”

Presumably, the fact that it might sway the next presidential election in favor of a Republican candidate is not even on her agenda.

It doesn’t seem to cross Palin’s mind that perhaps the reason the black vote largely goes to Democratic candidates isn’t because, as she suggests, people assume that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 demonstrates that Democrats are pro-civil rights.

She seems not to have considered that it might be due to Republican leaders making references to black people as lazy, and openly admitting to trying to suppress the black vote.

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Palin seems not to have considered whether a Republican leader posting racist images on Facebook might turn black people away from the Republican party. Montanafesto has a screenshot of just that: one county’s Republican leader posted an image on her Facebook page, depicting a box trap with a watermelon inside and suggesting it would be an effective way to capture President Obama.

Perhaps Palin and Smith also failed to recognize that both parties already make policies that affect black voters — and that these voters base their decisions not on one 1964 law, but on numerous policies being discussed today. These range from non-discrimination laws to voter ID laws to laws affecting the social safety net.

Bristol Palin and Stephen A. Smith seem to think that if black voters turn their votes to a Republican candidate, Republican candidates will begin to espouse values they currently decry, and Democratic candidates will scramble to re-earn the black vote. If Republican candidates were interested in the black (and minority in general) vote, though, it seems they’d already campaign on issues to benefit minority voters. At the moment, their stances on stop-and-frisk laws (NY Times reports that in a 2013 debate, GOP candidates shrugged off constitutionality of such laws and their inequal application), on voter ID laws (that have been shown to more heavily affect minorities), and on non-discrimination laws.

Stephen A. Smith and Bristol Palin have one thing right though: if in the next election, all black voters handed their votes to the Republican candidate, it sure would upset the apple-cart.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Steph Bazzle is a homeschooling mom who likes to write about justice, equality, and religious issues.

[jsanders2001]

I think most white voters I know would vote for a black conservative over a white liberal anyday, especially when they’re the best candidate for the job. I tjink blacks are more racist than whites nowadays or it sure seems that way to me.

[dp0622]

I knew the author was biased against Bristol as soon as he used the word majority to describe the way blacks vote for dems. 60 percent is a majority.
95 percent is an embarrassing commentary on any group showing they are mindless borg

[fieldmarshaldj]

Steph doesn’t trust enough the public schools to brainwash her kids in racist, leftist hate, so she doubles-down by doing it to her own kids herself. Talk about child abuse.

[taterjay]

Bristol and Stephen Smith do recognize Democrat LBJ saying that passing the Civil Rights bill would ensure blacks voting Democrat for 200 years. They also recognize Bill Clinton saying Obama would have been serving him and Ted Kennedy a few years ago. They recognize that Blacks voting Republican would forge a new destiny for blacks besides broken homes, subsidized housing, and Democrat pandering.

[ansel12]

The democrats have never been able to break through that 96% ceiling with the black vote, so we’ve got that going for us, that leaves us some room to build.

[ansel12]

The black vote switched over permanently in the 1936 election.

1932 was a typical black vote of 23% for the democrat, since blacks had always been republican, but for 1936, the switch was total, the democrat got 71%, and it has been so ever since.

[TontoKowalski]

I think most white voters I know would vote for a black conservative over a white liberal anyday, especially when they’re the best candidate for the job.

2014 was an interesting election year for South Carolina's senators. Because there was a special election for Tim Scott's seat, both he and Lindsay Graham were up for election on the same ballot.

Graham won 54% of the vote for his seat. Scott won 61% in the race for his seat.

[definitelynotaliberal]

I was not born to the Stars and Stripes, and I’m not of either of those 2 groupings. In my experience, racism among whites anywhere is actually quite strange. Racism among blacks is overt. It’s not ever directed at me, but I do see it directed against whites all the time. I have been in some really, really small towns in the Midwest where I have got some stares, but it has never crossed my mind that there might be any racial hostility at all attached to those looks. It’s just a curiosity because a cafe-au-lait complexion might not be seen with any regularity.

[definitelynotaliberal]

Tim Scott won his seat in the House by a similar margin too, if I recall. It was the first victory of the night in ‘10. Fox called it for him before the polls closed. ‘Twas a thing of poetic beauty.

[wardaddy]

What u said

That woman is too ignoramoose too have a blog

Where is HG?

[fieldmarshaldj]

"Where is HG?"

Playing with his spider collection.

[ansel12]

At the end of the 1990s I was a Texan working in Minneapolis and talking to a property manager from Texas that was a 43 year old black female just finishing up her masters in sociology, about a repair that I had just made.

Somehow education came up, and I gave my opinion, and she said, Thank God, it is good to meet someone who isn’t racist, my reaction was, are you sure? Here, every time race comes up, they think that I sound racist.

What she said about Texas was, in Texas, EVERYONE sees her as a middle class woman who is black, and they treat her, and speak to her as what she is, an educated, thinking, middle class person/woman. She said that in the upper Midwest, in a liberal world, that she is the ‘black woman’, and that they treat her as a low class person, that people don’t really see her as a person, but instead see her as “black” without being able to see her actual individuality, they could not distinguish her from a thug type black woman, she said they are very friendly and overly (fake) nice, to the point of condescension and patronizing, and that she felt very isolated because of it, she also said that she worried about her son out in the rural areas, unlike she would have in rural Texas and the South, where they were just people, fellow Texans, normal everyday people, rather than “black”.

By the way, people in rural areas do stare, they are used to looking directly at what they are curious about, I ran into it in a little town in Colorado during the Vietnam war when I had a car wreck going cross country and had to spend over a week there, I thought at first that my uniform may be making them hostile, but after a few days, I figured out that they look at what they want to look at, and are studying, it wasn’t about me at all, they were just looking at the stranger that looked a little different. You can’t see without looking.

[Jim from C-Town]

Eevery Conservative I know would and has voted for a Black Conservative over a white Liberal. We all voted for Ken Blackwell for Ohio Governor. We also often vote for more Conservative Black candidates in local elections over white Liberals. Both are Democrats but often the Black candidate is more Conservative.

[Nifster]

Steph is an idiot who makes things up out of whole cloth

why is she so bent out of shape over Bristol Palin.... a young woman who has ZERO political influence.....?

[ansel12]

Bristol probably does have close to zero political influence, but I do hope that she reaches a few young people on the outer edges of political awareness, the way that someone we don't like, such as a pop singer or distasteful stage comedian that we know isn't greatly influential, but that probably has a little negative influence on high school kids and a few 20 somethings.

Bristol has been a pro-life spokeswoman when she was well known, and an abstinence spokesperson when she was the famed single mom daughter of Governor Palin, she did very well and was popular in Dances with the Stars, and she is a New York times, bestselling author.

My hope is that she is reaching young females and being a positive influence on them, and either making them republicans, or making it easier for them to grow into republicans.

Remember her mom's influence on the young females of America.

Bristol has also been spreading seeds of strength and conservatism among America's girls.

[nathanbedford]

Some rhetorical questions in the "discussion about race" which Eric holder would never countenance much less answer:

1. If African-Americans are voting 95% in unison, are they voting their race?

2. If 95% means African Americans are voting their race, are they voting to advantage their race?

3. If African-Americans are voting their race to advantage their race, at least as they perceive it, is that racist?

4. If African-American voting patterns are racist, should they not be labeled as such and deplored up and down the land?

go to sleep him him him him him him him 5. Do African-American voting patterns reveal a zero-sum mentality that advancement of the African-American race necessarily implies disadvantage to other races, especially the white race?

6. If African-Americans are voting to obtain explicit or even implicit advantage to their race by the actions of government, does that mean that whites are morally justified in voting to obtain advantage for their race from government?

7. If whites are morally justified in voting to obtain advantage for whites from their government because blacks are voting to obtain advantage for blacks from the government, are whites morally justified in voting to restrict blacks from gaining advantage as African-Americans from the government?

8. If whites are both politically and morally so justified, are they foolish if they do not vote to advantage their race even at the expense of the African-American race?

9. Is the likely result of condoning voting on racial lines the Balkanization of the country, bloodshed and Civil War?

10. Does a generations old history of repression of African-Americans justify present-day policies of advantaging blacks at the cost of whites, such as reparations for slavery, also the justify impositions on future generation of whites to pay for these policies?

[dp0622]

Still awake unfortunately but wow, what a retort. Are you some kind of professor? I'm not smart enough to follow everything your wrote but basically elections have become a mini race cold war that may eventually lead to a hot war, as whites will get fed up with a built in 15% point advantage for dems given by blacks
When whites vote in a supermajority it is all over the front pages. So does that mean that even after 6 TRILION dollars worth of welfare, most news agencies still think blacks deserve preferential treatment? Or do they think they're not bright enough to choose among parties since they don't comment on the Borg-like voting patterns of blacks.
If whites wised up, they couldn't be defeated at the polls yet, even with massive Hispanic and black turnout. Those won elections could then be used to roll back the tide of illegal immigration and we could hand pick the legal ones, as well as appoint judges who will see things our way well into the future. To the victor belongs the spoils.
I hope you are not in too much pain and wish I had some of your ibuprofen. :) My next attempt will be a cup of tea.

[nathanbedford]

Apologies for the intrusions into question number five caused by Dragon naturally speaking voice recognition software and an inexcusable lapse of proof reading.

[ansel12]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIVe-rZBcm4