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Do black people support Barack Obama because he's black?
The Indian Express ^ | Sunday, October 14, 2012 | Agencies

Posted on 10/13/2012 11:28:46 PM PDT by Jyotishi

Edited on 10/14/2012 7:05:45 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

Surviving slavery, segregation and discrimination has forged a special pride in African-Americans. Now some are saying this hard-earned pride has become prejudice in the form of blind loyalty to President Barack Obama.

Are black people supporting Obama mainly because he's black? If race is just one factor in blacks' support of Obama, does that make them racist? Can blacks' support for Obama be compared with white voters who may favor his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, because he's white?


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: black; blackpresident; blackvote; obama; race; racism; romney; welfarestate; white
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1 posted on 10/13/2012 11:28:49 PM PDT by Jyotishi
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To: Jyotishi

Do bears _________ the woods?


2 posted on 10/13/2012 11:31:50 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (This stuff we're going through now, this is nothing compared to the middle ages.)
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3 posted on 10/13/2012 11:34:04 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: Jyotishi
Do black people support Barack Obama because he's black?

Ya think?

4 posted on 10/13/2012 11:34:15 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." - Barack Hussein Obama - Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009.)
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To: Jyotishi

98.9% of voters in some districts “can’t be wrong”, er “racist”...


5 posted on 10/13/2012 11:38:20 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
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To: Jyotishi
Surviving slavery, segregation and discrimination has forged a special pride in African-Americans.

When I was in school in the early '70s, the Liberal teaching establishment was pushing the theme "Black is Beautiful." Students in school were pushed (by White educators) to be proud of themselves. Any White student that stood up to express pride in their White heritage was punished by the White Liberal teachers/administration.

Any "Black pride" that exists is due to White liberalism. Whites had to teach the Blacks how to respect themselves. But, it has evolved into a culture of dependency, relying on the White man to support them from cradle to grave.

6 posted on 10/13/2012 11:38:38 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Greed + Envy = Liberalism)
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To: Jyotishi
Do black people support Barack Obama because he's black?


7 posted on 10/13/2012 11:43:37 PM PDT by Old Sarge (We are officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet...)
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To: a fool in paradise
Blacks are more racist than Whites

~ Larry Elder, "The Ten Things You Can't Say In America"

8 posted on 10/13/2012 11:45:00 PM PDT by Old Sarge (We are officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet...)
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“Do black people support Barack Obama because he’s black?”
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Well, of course they do, but that is not the primary reason.
They support anyone that advances a socialist/Marxist society.
They think their well being and survival comes only from government.
Obumbo’s blackness is just icing on the cake for them.

Ask yourself...How many blacks would vote for a conservative
black?


9 posted on 10/13/2012 11:46:51 PM PDT by AlexW
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

10 posted on 10/13/2012 11:48:18 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Jyotishi

“Do black people support Barack Obama because he’s black?”
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Well, of course they do, but that is not the primary reason.
They support anyone that advances a socialist/Marxist society.
They think their well being and survival comes only from government.
Obumbo’s blackness is just icing on the cake for them.

Ask yourself...How many blacks would vote for a conservative
black?


11 posted on 10/13/2012 11:52:16 PM PDT by AlexW
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To: AlexW

You make valid points. I do think that blacks first look at skin color and then anything else.


12 posted on 10/13/2012 11:57:46 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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Not at all. They support him because he’s a democrat. Period. If a black conservative had the nomination 90% of blacks would vote for the white liberal democrat over the black republican.


13 posted on 10/13/2012 11:58:44 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Jyotishi
Do black people support Barack Obama because he's black?

Yes. Next question.

14 posted on 10/13/2012 11:59:53 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: AlexW

Well, of course they do, but that is not the primary reason.
They support anyone that advances a socialist/Marxist society.
They think their well being and survival comes only from government.
Obumbo’s blackness is just icing on the cake for them.

Ask yourself...How many blacks would vote for a conservative
black?

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Exactly!


15 posted on 10/14/2012 12:00:29 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Jyotishi
Here's the explicit answer to the question:

http://hillbuzz.org/page/5 Scroll down to article 88, “Extreme Black Anger in Chicago at Oboma..”He ruined it for us. White people don't feel guilty no more and won't do stuff for us now.”

Read this article to its end...very interesting reading.

16 posted on 10/14/2012 12:05:22 AM PDT by itssme
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To: Jyotishi; Fred Nerks

Do black people support Barack Obama because he’s black?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Yes , for the most part, but the problem is, Obama is NOT black. He is of mixed Arabic, Caucasian and Black decent.
That makes Obama about 1/3 African at most but he is more likely 1/6 African. Obama is less black than Oprah Winfrey who is of mixed race.

If Black people support Obama because he is “black” they are getting a raw deal.

Buahahahahahahahaha!


17 posted on 10/14/2012 12:17:52 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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“Howard Stern contributors Sal and Richard travel to Harlem to interview Obama supporters and ask them why they are voting for Obama.

Stern and his crew ask denizens of Harlem various outrageous questions, including if they believe Obama will find and kill Osama bin Laden; [does it matter that] Romney is a Muslim [or that] Obama is a Mormon; if Obama made the right choice by picking Paul Ryan as his running mate, and if he did it because he [Paul Ryan] is black. One interviewee was under the impression that 2008 Republican nominee John McCain [and Sarah Palin] are running [again] this time.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SeJbOU4nmHQ

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Below is a similarly funny Howard Stern Show interview from the 2008 campaign:

Sal Interviews Obama Supporters in Harlem
[F-word used occasionally]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5p3OB6roAg

18 posted on 10/14/2012 12:33:30 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: snarkytart
Not at all. They support him because he’s a democrat.

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"The Justice Department originally brought the case against four armed men who witnesses say derided voters with catcalls of "white devil" and "cracker" and told voters they should prepare to be "ruled by the black man." ..."

One poll watcher called police after he reportedly saw one of the men brandishing a nightstick to threaten voters.

As I walked up, they closed ranks, next to each other,” the witness told Fox News at the time. “So I walked directly in between them, went inside and found the poll watchers. They said they’d been here for about an hour. And they told us not to come outside because a black man is going to win this election no matter what.”

He said the man with a nightstick told him, “’We’re tired of white supremacy,’ and he starts tapping the nightstick in his hand. At which point I said, ‘OK, we’re not going to get in a fistfight right here,’ and I called the police.”...”

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/bio/userletter/?id=48778&letter_id=5485433306

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_110408/content/01125111.guest.html

19 posted on 10/14/2012 12:36:57 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Jyotishi
"Bo", the First Dog:

Arf!...I'm more black than he is

20 posted on 10/14/2012 1:15:44 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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