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  • Early voting surges...but not among black voters.

    10/10/2020 6:59:05 AM PDT · by bort · 74 replies
    October 10, 2020 | Vanity
    Below is a list of states that have accumulated substantial mail-in/early votes followed by the percentage share of votes cast by blacks in each state. In other words, of all the early votes that have been returned by mail or cast in person up until yesterday, these are percentages that were cast by black voters in each state: Florida: 11% (Obama 2012: 14% of electorate) Indiana: 5% (state AA population: 11%) Maryland: 22% (state AA population: 33%) Michigan: 8% (state AA population: 15%) Neb(CD-2):4% (CD AA population: 10%) N. Car.: 16% (Obama 1 pt. win in 2008: 23%) Virg.: 13%...
  • New Study Confirms that Black Voters [turnout reduced] Over COVID-19 Fears (from July, but instructive)

    10/05/2020 6:15:02 PM PDT · by bort · 16 replies
    Milwaukee Independent ^ | July 2, 2020 | Wisconsin Watch
    Researchers from the Brennan Center for Justice say their study...found that Milwaukee’s decision to close all but five of its 182 polling places reduced voting among non-Black voters in Milwaukee by 8.5 percentage points, and that COVID-19 may have further reduced turnout by 1.4 percentage points. That would mean the overall reduction in turnout among non-Black voters was 9.9 percentage points. Black voters experienced more severe effects: Poll closures reduced their turnout by an estimated 10.2 percentage points, while other mechanisms — including fear of contracting COVID-19 — lowered turnout by an additional 5.7 percentage points. Those factors combined to...
  • Black turnout lagging in North Carolina mail-in voting.

    09/29/2020 11:31:38 AM PDT · by bort · 31 replies
    NC State Board of Elections ^ | September 29, 2020 | Vanity
    Bad news: Mail-in ballots cast in North Carolina as of today: 147K/46K/81K (Dem/Rep/Una) Good news: Mail-in ballots cast by race: 201K/44K/29K (white/black/other). Translation: 4.3% of white registered voters have already cast a mail-in ballot, versus 2.94% of black registered voters. THIS IS A DISASTER FOR DEMOCRATS (see below).
  • Hope Turned Out Black Voters for Obama. Will fear bring them out against his successor?

    09/28/2020 10:34:14 AM PDT · by bort · 31 replies
    The Economist ^ | September 24, 2020 | TJ Smith
    The president’s offensiveness to black voters, combined with Mr Biden’s own limitations as a campaigner, have made it hard for the challenger to make a positive case for himself. “He’s got a good heart, he’s one of us,” was the most the voters in and around Greenville said for Mr Biden. This might suggest his support among African- Americans is wider than it is deep. Which in turn could suggest it will not take much to stop them turning out in the numbers he needs. And covid-19 is a lot. Alongside their loathing for the president, almost all the North...
  • 5% rejection rate for Black mail-in ballots in NC (Now you know why Democrats have reversed course on VBM)

    09/25/2020 12:40:52 PM PDT · by bort · 20 replies
    Old North State Politics Blog (Twitter) ^ | September 25, 2020 | Vanity
    Ballot rejection rates in NC by race: 1) Whites-----2% 2) Hispanics--3% 3) Blacks-----5% And now you know why Democrats are reversing course and encouraging their voters to vote "in-person." Considering that Blacks, Hispanics, and young voters are the most likely to screw up their absentee ballots (no signatures, no witness signatures, incorrect address, mismatching signatures, etc.), the Democrats could lose significant numbers of votes among their base.
  • Satchuel Cole, leader in the fight for racial equality in Indianapolis, lied about own race

    09/18/2020 12:02:01 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 37 replies
    Indianapolis Star | 9/18
    Satchuel Cole, leader in the fight for racial equality in Indianapolis, lied about own race (Only a link can be posted, per FR rules)
  • Grad Student Admits Lying About Being Black, Resigns Teaching Position

    09/16/2020 12:39:50 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 85 replies
    New York Post ^ | September 16, 2020 | Hannah Sparks
    A graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has apologized and resigned from their teaching job and worker’s union leadership position after years of embracing “lies” about their racial identity. CV Vitolo-Haddad, who uses the non-binary pronouns “they” and “them,” admitted that they are actually Southern Italian and Sicilian — not black or Latino, which are both labels they accepted when peers allegedly assumed they were a person of color. “When asked if I identify as black, my answer should have always been ‘No,’ ” Vitolo-Haddad wrote Sept. 8 in the second of two confessions on Medium. “There were three separate...
  • A “bang” in LIGO and Virgo detectors signals most massive gravitational-wave source yet

    09/04/2020 10:38:23 PM PDT · by LibWhacker · 11 replies
    MIT ^ | 9/2/2020 | Jennifer Chu
    For all its vast emptiness, the universe is humming with activity in the form of gravitational waves. Produced by extreme astrophysical phenomena, these reverberations ripple forth and shake the fabric of space-time, like the clang of a cosmic bell. Now researchers have detected a signal from what may be the most massive black hole merger yet observed in gravitational waves. The product of the merger is the first clear detection of an “intermediate-mass” black hole, with a mass between 100 and 1,000 times that of the sun. They detected the signal, which they have labeled GW190521, on May 21, 2019,...
  • Dems Are In Trouble With The Black Vote, And They Know It

    09/03/2020 6:31:41 PM PDT · by Kevin in California · 40 replies
    The Political Insider ^ | 09/03/2020 | Wayne Dupree
    Both the Democrats and the Black Lives Matter organization exploit blacks for political purposes while destroying their families and communities in the bargain. They offer dependency and encourage behavior that is both self-destructive and ruinous to the Black community as a whole. After nearly sixty years of devastation in supporting the left, increasingly blacks realize that they’ve been screwed and see the upside of changing allegiance to President Trump. However, you will find George W. Bush had similar “approval” ratings from blacks. Approval ratings do not equate to votes. Contrary to popular belief, the riots are not happening in black...
  • Pro-Trump Demonstrators Clash With Counter-Protesters on Golden Gate Bridge(The won't name BLM)

    08/30/2020 9:13:50 PM PDT · by Vendome · 28 replies
    NBCBAYAREA ^ | August 30, 2020 | Sergio Quintana
    The combination of politics and protests boiled over Sunday, with supporters of President Donald Trump holding a demonstration and clashing with counter-protesters on the Golden Gate Bridge Sunday afternoon. Officers from the California Highway Patrol and the Golden Gate Bridge Patrol tried to keep the two groups separated, and some arrests were made. The march across the Golden Gate Bridge was billed by conservative organizer Brandan Straka as an effort to "save San Francisco." He’s behind a campaign called Walk Away, an effort to invite Democrats to leave their party and join the Republican party. Straka said his group was...
  • MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross Mocks RNC’s ‘Modern Day Minstrel Show’ of Black Trump Supporters

    08/30/2020 12:09:53 PM PDT · by Libloather · 22 replies
    Mediaite ^ | 8/30/20 | Ken Meyer
    MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross took a very dismissive view of the African American speakers who spoke at the 2020 Republican National Convention praising President Donald Trump. The RNC featured numerous speakers of color last week, many of whom used their addresses to attack former Vice President Joe Biden on his record while rejecting the notion that Trump’s a racist. As Cross assembled her panel to discuss this on Sunday, she set the tenor of the conversation by saying the Black speakers “really did look like a modern day minstrel show to me.” MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson followed up with a reference...
  • A Kristallnacht For White Americans?

    08/20/2020 7:43:28 PM PDT · by Pining_4_TX · 50 replies
    Paulcraigroberts.org ^ | 08/20/20 | Paul Craig Roberts
    “White privilege” conveys the idea that white people have impunity. They can abuse, even kill, people of color without consequence. Yet, it is white officer Chauvin who is in jail charged with the murder of black George Floyd, while the two black Maryland teenagers who murdered 59-year old white John Weed at the county fair for not giving them a dollar were sentenced by white female judge Julie Stevenson Solt to “anger management training” and “behavior modification” but otherwise unpunished. Here is the report—https://www.revolver.news/2020/08/black-teens-kill-white-man-county-fair/ . The story was covered locally (for example, https://aminerdetail.com/outrage-over-frederick-fair-murder-sentencing/ ) but kept out of national news...
  • Black newborns 3 times more likely to die when looked after by White doctors

    08/18/2020 4:51:05 PM PDT · by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin · 163 replies
    CNN ^ | 18 August 2020 | Rob Picheta
    (CNN)Black newborn babies in the United States are more likely to survive childbirth if they are cared for by Black doctors, but three times more likely to die when looked after by White doctors, a study has found. The mortality rate of Black newborns shrunk by between 39% and 58% when Black physicians took charge of the birth, according to the research, which laid bare how shocking racial disparities in human health can affect even the first hours of a person's life. By contrast, the mortality rate for White babies was largely unaffected by the doctor's race. The findings support...
  • ‘Black People Don’t Have To Vote Democrat’: GOP Challenger In Baltimore Releases Ad Attacking ‘Decades’ Of Dem Rule

    08/18/2020 9:21:23 AM PDT · by aimhigh · 35 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | 08/18/2020 | SCOTT MOREFIELD
    Republican Maryland 7th District Congressional candidate Kimberly Klacik released an ad Monday questioning whether “decades” of Democratic Party rule in Baltimore and other major U.S. cities have benefited the black community. The ad, titled, “Black Lives Don’t Matter To Democrats,” features Klacik walking through some of Baltimore’s most impoverished areas and showing areas that she says Democrats “don’t want you to see.” She also asks several residents how they feel about efforts to defund the police. “Do you care about black lives?” Klacik asks viewers. “The people that run Baltimore don’t. I can prove it. Walk with me. They don’t...
  • Clothing store waives $20 appointment fee for black customers — but whites still have to pay up. And backlash is intense.

    08/18/2020 4:40:57 AM PDT · by gattaca · 71 replies
    The Blaze ^ | August 17, 2020 | DAVE URBANSKI
    A clothing store in downtown Savannah, Georgia, raised some eyebrows recently when it waived a $20 appointment fee for black customers and other people of color while keeping the fee intact for white customers, WJCL-TV reported. Civvies on Broughton adopted the appointment system after reopening since the COVID-19 shutdown, the station said, adding that it then waived the fee for everyone but white customers in order to try to help disenfranchised communities. "This promotional waiver serves the substantial business purpose of centering and prioritizing people who might not be able to access vintage clothing," store manager Raine Blunk told WJCL....
  • Biden Launches Ad Blitz Targeting Black Voters

    08/15/2020 4:40:00 PM PDT · by bort · 87 replies
    AP ^ | August 6, 2020 | Kat Stafford
    Joe Biden's presidential campaign has launched a new national ad focused on Black Americans . . . meant to drum up support among Black Americans[.]
  • 5-year-old North Carolina boy allegedly shot dead by neighbor

    08/11/2020 7:34:01 PM PDT · by VeniVidiVici · 33 replies
    New York Post ^ | 08-11-2020 | Natalie Musumeci
    Little White boy killed boy wacko black guy. Thank you Democrats for whipping up emotion for people to kill.
  • Voting for Trump and NOT for Biden(NSFW but, short vid)

    08/08/2020 9:52:56 PM PDT · by Vendome · 11 replies
    Weberz Way ^ | August 8, 2020 | Weberz Way
    There is no description in the article but, this first generation american black man explains why Biden is not a choice, particulary after signing the 1994 crime act which imprisoned more black men than ever. While Trump is a POS racist(sarcasm) he signed, by Executive Order, funding to Black Colleges FOREVER Trump signs bill restoring funding for black colleges https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/dec/19/donald-trump-signs-hbcu-funding-bill/ "President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a bipartisan bill that will permanently provide more than $250 million a year to the nation’s historically black colleges and universities, along with dozens of other institutions that serve large shares of minority students."...
  • Black conservatives in New Mexico decry BLM, systemic racism

    08/08/2020 6:51:44 AM PDT · by brownwill6767 · 6 replies
    KOB TV 4 ^ | 7/29/20 | Chris Ramirez
    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- Two Black conservatives in New Mexico do not feel like they are being heard in the debate about systemic racism and policing. Retired businessman Jewll Powdrell of Rio Rancho, and Dr. Larry Allen, a pastor in Albuquerque, have both been a part of New Mexico's history. "I was the first Black New Mexico State Police officer," Dr. Allen said. Powdrell said he worked at IBM as one of the first Black salesman they hired in Albuquerque.
  • Young Black Americans not sold on Biden, the Democrats or voting

    08/06/2020 10:37:02 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 21 replies
    theconversation.com ^ | August 5, 2020 8.31am EDT | David C. Barker & Sam Fulwood III
    Will young, Black Americans turn out to vote in November? ost political analysts define “swing voters” as those who swing their support from one party to the other between election cycles – determining winners and losers in the process. According to this conventional wisdom, the “swingiest” voters are working-class whites in the Midwest, who supposedly hold the keys to the White House. Meanwhile, by contrast, pundits often portray Black Americans as an undifferentiated mass – loyal Democrat-supporting foot soldiers who will execute their mission for The Team on Tuesday as long as some preacher provides the right marching orders on...