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Black Virginia voters feel betrayed, left in no-win scenario [Northam/Fairfax/Herring]
Associated Press ^
| February 10, 2019
| Errin Haines Whack
Posted on 02/10/2019 5:20:53 PM PST by Olog-hai
Eva Siakams choice to campaign for Ralph Northam in 2017 was a simple one: He was a Democrat and endorsed by Barack Obama, Americas first black president.
But sitting in a stylists chair at Supreme Hair Styling Boutique in Richmond on Friday, she shook her head in disgust when asked about revelations that Northam wore blackface 35 years ago.
I really believed in him, said Siakam, a 28-year-old student. To find out that he dressed up in blackface is disappointing. Hes shown his disdain for black people.
Black voters who factored prominently in the 2017 election that helped Northam become Virginia governor are feeling betrayed over the scandals that have engulfed the state over the past week, leaving them with a less-than-ideal set of choices at the top of the Democratic Party: a governor and attorney general who wore blackface and a lieutenant governor who stands accused by two women of sexual assault. The next person in line for governor is a conservative Republican.
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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: North Carolina; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2020election; associatedpress; blackface; blackvoters; california; democrats; dukeuniversity; election2020; errinhaineswhack; howardschultz; justinfairfax; markherring; meredithwatson; metoo; northam; northcarolina; ralphnortham; starbucks; vanessatyson; virginia
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To: vetvetdoug
The irony being the black guy will be forced out for the crime of being an oversexed negro while the white dudes can stay for posing in blackface.
Its unfair? Why, yes. Then again nothing about the Democrat Party is fair.
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posted on
02/10/2019 7:58:19 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: Olog-hai
Good thing they don’t hold Infanticide against the Cracker Governor.
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posted on
02/10/2019 8:04:20 PM PST
by
Kickass Conservative
(THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
To: Olog-hai
Vote like a slave, don’t be surprised at what you get.
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posted on
02/10/2019 9:10:39 PM PST
by
fieldmarshaldj
("It's Slappin' Time !")
To: Olog-hai
As P.T. Barnum might have said to Black Virginia Democrats, “There’s a sucker born every minute”.
Welcome to the Democrat Party - GYA (Gotch Ya Again). GYA was the name of a DC Police Fake Fencing Operation that snagged scores of thieves who thought that they were legitimate fences DESPITE the police having running a very successful similar operation months before.
The jails are full of dumb people. So is the Democrat Party.
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
The New York Daily News actually employs the liar Shaun King. Thanks to white male privilege, he suffered no lasting negative consequences from his lifetime of lying.
- STUNNING UPDATE: Mother of Jazmine Barnes Lied to Police - Knew the Killers were Black Men,... [2019]
- Black Lives Matter Activist Shaun King: 'The 4th of July Has Always Been a Sham. Always.' [2018]
- KING: I'm boycotting the NFL because of its blatant bigotry and anti-blackness [2017]
- Stop using attack on mentally challenged white man in Chicago to promote racist agenda against BLM [2017]
- SHOCKER.Shaun King more concerned over 'white supremacist hashtag' than actual attack [2017]
- Shaun King Announces Progressive Boycott of New York, San Francisco and Standing Rock [2016]
- NFL ratings are down because racists despise black men who are truly free [2016]
- King: Why I'll Never Stand Again For The Star Spangled Banner [2016]
- KING: The more I think about it, the more I want to buy a 'America Was Never Great' hat [2016]
- Top Democrat Shaun King Quitting Democratic Party Over Corruption Revelations [2016]
- Here's why I'm leaving the Democratic Party [2016]
- White Privilege: Shaun King (#BlackLivesMatter)Plagiarizes Article, Editor Gets Fired [2016]
- KING: Ted Cruz calls for apartheid of American Muslims after Brussels attacks [2016]
- #BlackLivesMatter visits Mizzou, says supporting Constitution is white supremacy [2016]
- Black Lives Matter Activist Snubs White House Invite [2016]
- 'Black Lives Matter' co-founder to attend State of the Union [2016]
- Shaun King Says He's Suing Over Accusations He Has Misappropriated Funds [2015]
- King: Jesus depictions today further promote a white supremacist agenda [2015]
- Shaun King Was Fired From Job At Morehouse College Because He Brandished A Gun [2015]
- Charities Touted By Black Lives Matter Activist Shaun King Appear To Have Never Existed [2015]
- Trump's plan to deport millions of immigrants ... is comparable to Nazis' rounding up of Jews [2015]
- BLM Leader to Harris-Perry: No Need to Apologize for 'Pigs in a Blanket, Fry 'em Like Bacon' [2015]
- Outed #BlackLivesMatter leader tweets justification for TV shooter [2015]
- Black Conservative Group Offers $25K For Proof That Shaun King Is Black [2015]
- Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King addresses race reports [2015]
- Shaun King Confession: I Have No Idea Who My Father Is [2015]
- Trump on Jeb, O'Malley, and Black Lives Matter (Which Is Led By a White Guy) [2015]
- Family Member Confirms to CNN That #BlackLivesMatter Activist Shaun King Is White [2015]
- Shaun King Threatened To Sue Former Classmate For Slander After Posting Article [2015]
- More Fakery on the Left: Black Lives Matter Organizer Outed as White [2015]
- Black Lives Matter organizerrefuses to answer questions about his race [2015]
- Shaun King Threatened To Sue Former Classmate For Slander After Posting Article [2015]
- Blacker Than Shaun King [2015]
- #BLM activist Shaun King denies lying about his race after conservatives insist he's white [2015]
- 'BlackLivesMatter' chief really white? [2015]
- Rachel Dolezal 2.0? Shaun King, activist for the Black Lives Matter movement, outed as a white man [2015]
- Did Black Lives Matter Organizer Shaun King Mislead Oprah Winfrey By Pretending To Be Biracial? [2015]
- 'Black Lives Matter' leader deletes tweets offering money to commit CRIMES [2015]
- 'No different than supporting ISIS': Libs work to take down fundraising page for Officer Darren [2014]
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posted on
02/11/2019 12:04:08 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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posted on
02/11/2019 12:23:09 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
Barnum said that to us ALL!
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posted on
02/11/2019 3:15:03 AM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: dfwgator
but at least they won't BS them Let's not exaggerate. Republicans are the better choice, but generally, they are still not a good choice. IMO
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posted on
02/11/2019 7:27:48 AM PST
by
chesley
(What is life but a long dialog with imbeciles? - Pierre Ryckmans)
To: Olog-hai
So, how do these black voters feel about rape allegations against Lt. Gov. Fairfax ? 🦗
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posted on
02/11/2019 7:32:12 AM PST
by
csvset
(illegitimi non carborundum)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
02/11/2019 8:58:13 AM PST
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: Olog-hai
WHY do Whites not need “Community Leaders”???? <>They SHOULD be embarrassed to have to be LED!
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posted on
02/11/2019 9:00:18 AM PST
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: Olog-hai
The FL Pubbie that resigned over an old blackface photo looks like a schmuck right now. He should have said "I'll wait to see what Northam does."
To: jospehm20
“Democrats have been betraying black voters since forever.....”
Doesn’t say too much for “black” voters.
Something’s rotten Denmark.
Looks like Democrats’ voter fraud antics may not be reflecting voter desires.
IMHO
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posted on
02/12/2019 10:03:57 AM PST
by
ripley
To: 2banana; Impy
>>
Why do they keep voting for the party of the KKK? <<
Well, a bunch of useful idiots on "our side" keep repeating BS about how the Democrats were "honorable and patriotic back then" and that "the two parties switched sides in the 60s and 70s"
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posted on
02/13/2019 7:56:52 PM PST
by
BillyBoy
(States rights is NOT a suicide pact.)
To: BillyBoy
In HS there was a field trip to the Historical society. Faggy twit who worked there flat out said Lincoln and Douglas’s parties would be reversed today.
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posted on
02/14/2019 2:21:05 AM PST
by
Impy
(I have no virtue to signal.)
To: Impy
Yeah, a bunch of idiots on "our side" buy the propaganda, especially the revisionism about JFK being some kind of heroic figure who was crusading against the D.C. establishment when he was murdered, instead of being some degenerate daddy's boy who bought himself the Presidency and spent most of his time there trying to find ways to bang Marilyn Monroe.
That being said, there IS a grain of truth about Stephen Douglas' ideology being like "today's Republicans", in that there is a wing of the GOP (many of whom are active on FR, sadly), who think EVERY problem in America can magically be solved by "sending it to back to the states" and having the federal government wash their hands of it, and that the founders intended "the states" (as in the state governments, NOT the people of those states) to have the absolute "right" to do ANYTHING and everything they pleased.
Douglas' mindset was proven wrong in the 1860s, its still wrong today. There are many circumstances where things the federal government butts its head into that are better handled at the state level, but the reverse is sometimes true, and the founders specifically placed LIMITS on state powers AND said some things were best left up to the INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE rather the state governments for a reason.
Of course, the reality is Douglas was a northern Democrat and wasn't any kind of slavery loving racist, he just wanted to punt the issue and let others deal with it. Which is pretty far removed from the southern RATS at the time arguing that slavery was some kind of God-given right and using the federal government to try and FORCE northern states that DIDN'T want to recognize slavery to do their bidding (e.g. Dred Scott decision that pretty much proved Douglas's "solution" to "leave it up to the states" would never work).
The idea that all the racist RATs who treated blacks as sub-human "became Republicans" and all the heroic civil rights crusades who ended segregation in this country "became Democrats" is of course history revisionism BS, as you can prove by following the career path of all the individuals who did those things. But facts like that are ignored by the mainstream media, and by idiots on "our side" who want to cast those scumbag bigoted RATs in a good light and pretend they were "conservative" since their great-granddaddy or whoever voted for them and grandpappy couldn't have possibility been wrong.
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posted on
02/14/2019 11:24:36 AM PST
by
BillyBoy
(States rights is NOT a suicide pact.)
To: Impy
Another interesting point I'll make... if "the two parties switched sides" propaganda was true, Al Gore would have almost certainly been the Republican nominee for President in 2000, and George W. Bush the Democrat nominee, given their families backgrounds (Gore was the son of an anti-civil rights RAT Senator from the south, in a region that was Democrat but slowly became safe Republican, whereas Bush was the son and grandson of pro-civil right Republicans from New England, a region that slowly became safe Dem). According to the history revisionists, the Gores should have "become Republican" by the 80s and Bushes turned RAT at the same time.
The same is also true of the Romney family (they also should have become RATs... of course Fieldmarshaldj argues they already defacto are. lol) and many other recent prominent political figures (Robert Byrd should have "become a Republican" as West Virginia drifted towards the GOP, Bill Clinton would have done the same in Arkansas as the state became increasingly Republican, blah blah blah)
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posted on
02/14/2019 11:40:28 AM PST
by
BillyBoy
(States rights is NOT a suicide pact.)
To: Olog-hai
It’s rough down there on the plantation.
To: RinaseaofDs
Black
White
What the hell is wrong with these people.
Get a grip.
Your skin color is not who you are.
Wake up!
Your skin color is not a crutch, or a pass.
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posted on
02/14/2019 11:45:54 AM PST
by
gathersnomoss
(Grace and Dignity Will Win The Day.)
To: Olog-hai
Nonsense.
Blacks will always vote for democrats, no matter what those democrats do against them.
Other than using blacks as a convenient tool for its race baiting politics, democrats have dumped blacks as their favored useful minority and now favor Hispanics, who have passed blacks in numbers in Virginia.
But blacks refuse to accept that reality, along with other realities like Trump has reduced black unemployment to record lows, and will continue to vote democrat. It is more important to get your Obama phone and SNAP cards than face reality.
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posted on
02/21/2019 7:10:52 AM PST
by
oldbill
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