Black voters divided on candidates

[Terri]

Black voters divided on candidates

By Brian DeBose
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

With the primary season less than two months away, black voters have yet to unite behind a single Democratic challenger to President Bush — something that hasn't happened in 20 years.

* *The mass indecision of black voters at this point in the campaign season hasn't occurred since 1984, when the Rev. Jesse Jackson ran a strong campaign in the Democratic primary, political analysts say. The expectation that the Congressional Black Caucus would set the tone for which Democratic candidate to support is waning, with the 39 caucus members equally fractured.

* *More than half the members of the caucus have withheld their endorsements; another 16 have dispersed them among eight of the nine candidates in the field. Usually at this time in the election cycle a majority swell of support is evident among black voters.
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[Markvh]

Maybe they're just waiting for William Jamaal Clinton(the first black President ) to TELL them who to support. They've proven they will blindly follow him anywhere as long as he shows up in a black chuch from time to time.

Watch and see how many times you see Hillaratetia singin' with the choir when she decides to run. She hasn't come within 1000 feet of a black church since Nov 2000. http://www.gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif

[jonessa2]

this relates to an article in the same topic. A growing political force to be reckoned with: (http://www.gopusa.com/cgi-bin/ib3/ikonboard.pl?act=ST&f=9&t=7857)

Disenfranchised Black voters are slowly taking control of their lives. *With this awakening comes the realization that all the dems wanted to do was keep an ethnic group they think is too stupid to know the difference as sheeple, http://www.gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/baaa.gif thinking of them as an assured voting bloc on any issue they manipulate.

most importantly, the Republican party represents the values that any American would want to emulate so why not African-Americans. It is time to through off that last chain of enslavement-the democratic party-and be 'free at last,' 'free at last.'

[markinthedark]

Martin Luther King was a Republican. Charlton Heston supported him. It was Republican activism that passed the Equal Rights Amendment. It was Democrat activism that opposed it. Nothing has changed in fifty years. http://www.gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/usflag22.gif

[Markvh]

The problem is that LBJ literally BOUGHT the hearts and minds of the black voters with the War on Poverty. 4 TRILLION dollars later, the same percentage of blacks are living in poverty as there was in the 60's. By controlling the educational system for 40 years, the Dums knew that by keeping the blacks illiterate and dependent, they could control them. Why do you think Dem Presidents never want to do anything about drugs.
MLK is surely spinning in his grave at what has happened to his vision for his people.