"How about using the power of "their ballot" to vote for the candidate that believes in the American tradtions of individual freedom?"
Most blacks do not look at the world in terms of individual freedom. One hundred and forty years later they still look at the world as them being enslaved. The problem is the party that is enslaving them are the Democrats. Since Roosevelt, the only thing a Democrat majority has done for the blacks is to provide free cheese in the 70's. Maybe they are grateful for that, I don't know.
Leaders like Jackson and Sharpton are the pigs from Animal Farm. They used rhetoric and different forms of persecution to rid themselves of blacks that can present opposing views. Views that would change the dynamic in how blacks view the world.
In the end, both Jackson and Sharpton are sitting at the table, playing poker with the white man while everyone looks on in bewilderment. Once they leave the room, they tell their constituents how bad the white man is. And they believe them because their indoctrination has been thorough.
Blacks are traditionally religious and spend their time in church. Someone will have to one day explain why if the church has such a powerful influence on ones life, how could it be possible that they would line up behind a secularist, whos values are diametrically opposed to their beliefs?
And people who depart from that message are shunned and called Uncle Toms.
Two reasons. First, the church was the authority throughout history in black communities and the pastors' word carried much weight. Second, today in more than a few black churches, the pastors are nothing more than corrupt politicians standing in the pulpit.
