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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?
These questions have long animated conservatives who are frustrated by claims that white people who oppose Obama's policies are racist. This week, when a black actress who tweeted an endorsement of Romney was subjected to a stream of abuse from other African-Americans, the politics of racial accusation came full circle once again.
Stacey Dash, who also has Mexican heritage, is best known for the 1995 film "Clueless" and the recent cable-TV drama "Single Ladies." On Twitter, she was called "jigaboo,""traitor,""house nigger" and worse after posting, "Vote for Romney. The only choice for your future."
The theme of the insults: A black woman would have to be stupid, subservient or both to choose a white Republican over the first black president.
Russell Simmons, the hip-hop mogul and Obama backer, called Dash's experience "racism." Said Barbara Walters on "The View": "If she were white, this wouldn't have happened."
Twitter users are by no means representative of America, and many black Obama supporters quickly denounced the attacks. But for people like Art Gary, an information technology professional, the reason Dash was attacked is simple: She is a black woman supporting a white candidate over a black one.
"It goes both ways," said Gary, who is white. "There is racial bias amongst whites, and there is racial bias amongst blacks. But as far as the press is concerned, it only goes one way."
Antonio Luckett, a sales representative in Milwaukee who is black, called the attacks on Dash unfair. But when people speak out against a symbol of black progress like Obama, he said, "African-Americans tend to be internally hurt by that."
"We still have a civil rights (era) mentality, but we're not living in a civil rights-based world anymore," he said. "We want to say, 'You're black, you need to stand behind black people.'"
Luckett said one reason he voted for Obama in the 2008 primary against Hillary Clinton was because Obama is black: "Yes, I will admit that."
Is that racism? Not in Luckett's mind. "It's voting for someone who would understand your side of the coin a lot better."
Such logic runs into trouble when applied to a white person voting for Romney because he understands whiteness better. Ron Christie, a black conservative who worked for former President George W. Bush, finds both sides of that coin unacceptable.
"It's not the vision that our leaders in the civil rights movement would have envisioned and be proud of in the era of the first African-American president," Christie said.
Martin Luther King Jr. fought Jim Crow laws, which deprived blacks of political rights after Reconstruction, upheld by Southern Democrats. But black voters switched after Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson pushed through the 1960s civil rights legislation and Republicans successfully pursued the votes of white people who disliked the civil rights agenda.
Since then, Democrats have persistently wooed black voters with programs and platforms that African-Americans favor, and the party has been rewarded every four years.
Clinton got 83 percent of the black vote in 1992 and 84 percent in 1996; the third-party candidate Ross Perot probably sliced away some of Clinton's black support. Al Gore got 90 percent in 2000; John Kerry got 88 percent in 2004. Obama captured 95 percent in 2008, and 2 million more black people voted than in the previous election.
Christie says he, too, shares the sense of pride in Obama smashing what for blacks is the ultimate glass ceiling. He understands that black pride springs from a shared history of being treated as less than human, while the history of pride in whiteness has a racist context.
But he still sees black people voting for Obama out of a "straitjacket solidarity."
Christie sees it in his barbershop, where black men shifted from calling candidate Obama "half-white" and "not one of us" to demanding that Christie stop opposing the first black president.
He sees it in the comments of radio host Tom Joyner, who told his millions of listeners a year ago, "Let's not even deal with facts right now. Let's deal with our blackness and pride - and loyalty. . I'm not afraid or ashamed to say that as black people, we should do it because he's a black man."
The actor Samuel L. Jackson said much the same thing: "I voted for Barack because he was black," he told Ebony magazine. "Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them."
In 2011, as black unemployment continued to rise, the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus said that if Clinton was still president, "we probably would be still marching on the White House . (but) nobody wants to do anything that would empower the people who hate the president."
And just last week, the rapper Snoop Dogg posted a list of voting reasons, written by someone else, on a social media account. No. 1 on his pro-Obama list: He's black. Snoop's top reason to not vote for Romney: He's white.
All of this may help explain why Veronica Scott-Miller, a junior at historically black Hampton University, directed the following tweet at Dash: "You get a lil money and you forget that you're black and a woman. Two things Romney hates."
In an interview, Scott-Miller said the GOP fought Obama's effort to provide funding for historically black colleges like hers. She dislikes Romney's opposition to abortion and thinks Republicans have a "negative stigma about us . they make generalizations in their speeches about our race in general, and they make up terms like welfare queens and stuff."
Told that some saw her tweet as racist, she said that's not what she meant. "I was saying that as a black woman, Romney doesn't have that much that would make us want to vote for him," said Scott-Miller, who is black. "Because Barack Obama lives with three black women in his house, he knows about what they need, he knows about the issues we may be facing, he talks to black women on the regular."
Sherrilyn Ifill, a law professor at the University of Maryland, wrote a column last week exploring why so many black voters are rejecting Romney. She said it has less to do with the candidate than with his party's treatment of Obama, such as John Sununu calling the president "lazy" after the debate, a congressman shouting "You lie!" during the State of the Union address, claims that Obama is not a citizen and more.
In an interview, Ifill said that for black voters, such accusations feel like white people are attacking their own dignity. "In essence," she says, "they are closing ranks around Obama."
She noted that women were justifiably moved by Hillary Rodham Clinton's candidacy and Catholics flocked to the polls to elect President John F. Kennedy. Comparing black pride in Obama to white pride in Romney is a "false symmetry" because of the history of black oppression, she says, and she asked for patience from America at large.
"There should not be this resistance to pride over the first black president," Ifill says. "If we get to the fifth one, I'll be with you."
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Jesse Washington covers race and ethnicity for The Associated Press. He is reachable at or jwashington(at)ap.org.http://twitter.com/jessewashington
October 15, 2012 @ 8:12 am
Short answer: Yes, indeed!
October 15, 2012 @ 3:58 pm
Why is this country so afraid to admit that there is racism from all sides? Only a fool would think it doesn’t exist because Congress (choke and puke) says it doesn’t. Why is there a black caucus in Congress?
October 15, 2012 @ 5:11 pm
Are we not Americans first.We need to look at the facts.For the first2 years Obama was in office the Democrates had control of the house and senate yet they only word on Obamacare. He sent the stimulus money overseas to build windmills and cars.He failed to tell the American people that there was a tax in his health ins. Are we better off then the last 4 years. there should be no reason to vote just because of race,color. We need to vote for America’s future.
October 15, 2012 @ 8:37 am
Make what ever excuse you wish. Voting for a candidates skin color is just as bigoted as not voting for his skin color.
October 15, 2012 @ 8:52 am
With 14 percent of the Black community unemployed, you would think that the “Hope and Change” of a free house, car, job he promised in 2008 might get them thinking less on racial lines and more in survival mode. Racist is when 90% of the people of your race vote for the incompetent guy running who is of your race, but has NO solutions to your problems other than robbing from people of all races, which makes your race look like a bunch of robbers and criminals.
October 15, 2012 @ 10:31 am
it’s very sad now that racism is even mentioned in 2012….if this country was racist obama whould have never gor elected in the forst place…whites voted for obama by a wide margin and that got obama in the white house and is a racial thing. why not the black house???
October 15, 2012 @ 7:56 pm
I am sick of hearing about”RACISM” ! Life is what it is.
Everybody makes choices,THAT’S LIFE ! I don’t have to answer to anybody about my choices.
I’m fed up hearing about”AFRICAN AMERICANS”also.If
you live in AMERICA and enjoy what AMERICA has to offer you and are a citizen,YOU ARE AMERICAN FIRST,NOT AFRICAN.The majority of blacks have NEVER BEEN TO AFRICA.Many don’t even know where the hell africa is.
If the blacks don’t like it here and are so dissatisfied,Move,baby,move.Go to Africa.That seems to be first in your mind anyway.Then you can call yourselves African Africans !
I don’t give a damn about so-called RACISM.I don’t judge by skin color,I judge by ATTITUDES.
October 16, 2012 @ 10:51 am
It is PAST TIME for America to be UNITED! NO more dividing us into political special interest groups – women, blacks, hispanics, white males, transgenders, homosexuals…it makes ABSOLUTELY NO sense to keep pandering to one group or another. WE ARE ALL AMERICANS! This elimination of special interest groups also includes the many special caucus groups in Congress! Our congressional representatives and senators are elected to serve ALL of their constituents. There should be ABSOLUTELY NO special interest groups!
If Governor Romney were smart, he’d make mention tonight that the 47% comment was taken completely out of context and that, if elected, he will be the president of every single American, 100%, and it won’t matter what their heritage or skin color or sex is!
This community organizer has done his best to DIVIDE our country…to TURN AMERICANS against one another. It is time to END the class warfare NOW! He is well schooled in the DIVIDE & CONQUER theory put forth by Saul Alinsky and I truly believe hardworking taxpaying Americans are not going to put up with his ‘transformation’ of our country into a socialistic society!
October 15, 2012 @ 9:22 am
Judging someone and/or voting for or against someone just because of the color of their skin would be racist. Everybody knows that only white people can be racist. Oh wait, saying that would make me racist. Since I’m white I guess it makes sense that I would say such a thing. Never mind.
October 15, 2012 @ 5:10 pm
I’m a black woman. You are correct in your analysis, and not racist.
To me, the only way to eliminate racism is to always call it what it is. A black person voting for Obama only because he is black – that is racist.
October 15, 2012 @ 9:44 am
No matter what color you are. No matter what gender you are. BHO’s math *****! He promised to cut the deficit in half, but increased it by sixty percent. That means he failed in MATH. He broke his promise and there is no reason to believe anything he tells you.
Romney on the other hand has made millions and others around him has profited from thier relationship with him. Although he is painted as part of the 1 % understand Buffet, and Soros are two of the richest men in the world! All the Democrat leadership are multi millionaires but want you to think they are on your side while they make more millions.
Mitt wants to lower fuel cost, taxes, eliminate harmful regulations and therefore promote business growth. These things mean a booming stock market. Lower fuel prices and a lot more money to spend. It means you can shop to you drop. It means the good times are here again.
Four more years of Obama and you will not even be able to fill your gas tank…. let alone go shopping!
October 15, 2012 @ 9:50 am
I was trying to edit my previous comment and ran out-of time. What I was trying to say was:
Judging someone and voting for or against someone just because of the color of their skin would be racist. So, since everyone knows that only white people can be racist, and I’m a white person, it makes perfect sense that I am probably a racist and the only reason that I am not voting for Obama is because he’s black. Obama is half-black from his father’s side. How then, would you explain that I would vote, in a second, for Congressman Allen West, who happen to be black from both sides? The fact that this is still a topic of conversation is pathetic.
October 15, 2012 @ 10:01 am
An Allen West or a Herman Cain make sense and are plausible candidates. I have been around the better part of 65 years and I have been called a lot of names; most of which do not stick. I am for the best candidate ALWAYS. If the average black voter, the average white voter, the average Latino voter, whatever the voter skin color would step back and view WHO and WHICH candidate can publish and promote the best for our economy, I believe Romney wins in a landslide. Nothing whatever to do with skin color.
October 15, 2012 @ 10:28 am
I told a black man I work with that I would have happily voted for Herman Cain for president. There are many qualified men for president who just happen to be black. Barack Obama is NOT one of them.
Besides, he has very little in common with American blacks. He was raised in Indonesia by his white mother, then in Hawaii by his white grandmother. He had college degrees at prestigious universities handed to him, possibly while posing as an international exchange student. He never had to fight or struggle for anything. He was able to graduate high school while spending the majority of his HS career stoned. He had to go to Reverend Wright’s church and marry Michelle to get some black bonafides. He actually thinks that experimenting with drugs like cocaine makes him more in touch with the black community. If I were black, I would find it incredibly offensive that a half-white rich kid thinks that cocaine is part of the black experience.
October 15, 2012 @ 12:02 pm
billwv, I wouldn’t hold my breath for that landslide, but let’s certainly hope Romney does win.
October 15, 2012 @ 10:00 am
Being a member of several groups, chat rooms, blogs, etc on the internet, I can say, with confidence, based upon comments from obama supporters…
There will be more bigots voting for obama simply because he is black than there will be bigots who vote for Romney simply because he is white.
October 15, 2012 @ 10:11 am
I second that analysis based on interviews I have seen on the various networks and from reading what the various liberal vile spews about the candidates.
As a white liberal ex-friend of mine once told me…”you have to be racist…you are white”! That sealed it for me.
Voting mostly on color is racist…plain and simple. The BS explanations the left gives for this action by blacks voting for the black candidate are just that…BS!
Enough of this vile race peddling by the slugs that benefit from the action. Another reason BHO needs to go as he promotes this.
October 15, 2012 @ 10:31 am
I have witnessed the same from groups, chat rooms, blogs, etc. I wonder if it would be considered bigotry to advocate for some kind of test so that only people able to show a certain level of understanding of the issues would be allowed to vote? After all, people who are given driver’s licenses have to show knowledge of the rules-of-the-road. Isn’t the fate of our country just as important as that? Requiring such a test would be showing intolerance for…what? I know, to simplify things we could just ask people if their only source of news is MSNBC. Sorry…there I go, judging again.
October 15, 2012 @ 10:32 am
Well, they certainly shouldn’t be proud of him. He is an embarrassment to the black community. Kind of like Harry Reid is to the Mormon church and Nancy Pelosi is to the Catholic church.
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October 15, 2012 @ 11:01 am
Hey, where is that woman who shouted out on TV in 2004, Obama is going to pay my rent (Section 8); my medical payments (soc. sec. disability); for my food (food stamps; and my car payment (SSI)!
What did this woman get beyond what she was getting before Obama? We all remember the 2010 and 2011 frozen COLA (cost of living adjustment for Soc. Sec.; for two years no one on Soc. Sec. got a raise??????????????
October 16, 2012 @ 11:02 am
You want to be sick? Hear all about the wonderful EBT card benefits that are available here in Massachusetts! The cards are accepted at: manicure salons (I had to do without that luxury when funds were low); tatto parlors (well, okay I never had a desire for one of those); and you can always get cash back so you can go to the liquor store or fill the gas tank – or BUY A LOTTERY TICKET! Why on earth would these takers think they should get out of bed every morning, clean themselves up and put on clean clothes to go to a job when they can just sit back and collect? When there wasn’t enough money to go around in my early years, I did without many things these people EXPECT to have handed to them such as FREE cellphones!
President Romney will be able to turn the tide on this sinking economy…and I agree with others that the results will not even be close! He will be president of ALL AMERICANS and that is how it should be! There is no question as to where his loyalties lie.
October 15, 2012 @ 11:02 am
I am totally convinced that Obama won in 2008 primarily because he is black, and that many whites voted for him because he was black. Even though I am conservative and didn’t vote for him I still hoped he would be a good president, for the good of the country. So much for ‘hope’. I started feeling uneasy when I saw the content of his administration appointments – the outright Communists, the Socialists, the anti-constitutionalists.
October 15, 2012 @ 11:26 am
Ifill says. “If we get to the fifth one, I’ll be with you.”
So, she was out there supporting Herman Cain, right? Ifill will never be with “us.”
October 15, 2012 @ 11:42 am
Ifill and the race-baiting hacks wouldn’t, but I imagine the average black voter would have been proud of Herman Cain had he won.
October 15, 2012 @ 12:49 pm
TXGoatlady; I don’t think they would be proud of Mr. Cain. He expects people to work and earn what they get!
I would have voted for Colin Powell, until he traded his ethics and accomplishments for political correctness. I would vote for Herman Cain or Condoleeaza Rice, I would jump at the chance to vote for Col. Alan West.
But the left will always label me a racist because I don’t support their black candidate. They have a need to slap a label on anybody that doesn’t agree with them, as they are unable to understand how/why we disagree. It’s easier to deal with us if we are labeled. It makes them feel safer.
At first I had hoped that Romney would pick Col. West as a running mate, but I imagine that Col. West would likely outshine Romney. I’m still not convinced that Ryan won’t outshine Romney too.
October 15, 2012 @ 2:42 pm
I think that the black ministers will eventually get through to a large portion of the black community and help them realize that Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the rest of the black shakedown artists are not acting in the best interest of blacks. Those people are doing their best to keep blacks undereducated and dependent on government, but then you look at people like Star Parker and realize that even people previously on welfare can realize the truth.
October 16, 2012 @ 11:10 am
txgl – it seems that the liberal left, both black and white, forget that while Obama won California, those very same voters cast their ballots FOR Prop. 8. The black and hispanic churches hold Biblical family values near and dear and I believe we will see that the current president’s pandering to the radical left will end up turning around and biting him. Prediction – LARGE Christian turnout and LARGE Obama loss!
October 15, 2012 @ 11:26 am
Many do vote because of that, sorry to say. I hope they will look at
the no jobs around them and think again.
October 15, 2012 @ 11:27 am
“Surviving slavery, segregation and discrimination has forged a special pride in African-Americans.”
And it should, at least for those African-Americans that did something with the gift their forefathers fought and died for. I am not sure that the slaves of yesterday would be proud of the slaves of today.
October 15, 2012 @ 11:40 am
Folks here is the dilemma that individuals that post to this site already understand. The people that need to hear it and think about it won’t take the time to do so.
The 2008 election ended with about 96 or 97% of African Americans voting for Obama.
Obama, in his book Audacity of Hope refers to the “Coil of Rage.” It was directed at whites. One can also find his racist comments in Dreams From My Father.
Obama’s was a member of United Church of Christ (Chicago) and at one point referred to Pastor Jeremiah Wright as a mentor. Wright preached Black Liberation Theology. Quite often these were angry racist hate filled sermons whipping up the emotions of people.
Suddenly, just before the 2012 election, according to a team of genealogists Obama may be descended from one of the first documented African slaves in the United States. He is now the poster child for “six degrees of separation”. Obama spent (what), 90 million to cover his past, but this gem emerged. Hopefully if any documents appear he will use a better team of adobe experts.
In this 2012 election, on the Obama re election web site his campaign is pitching “African Americans for Obama” and without shame he promoted it during Black History Month.
Now don’t take my word for it, there is more, do some homework, but does any of this seem the least bit racist?
Suppose Romney came out with this imaginary fund raising pitch. White folks for Romney and released it during something called Anglo European World History Month.
Folks, you will always encounter the black and white sheoples, but ask yourself. Who always seems to use the race card and yells the loudest? Most of us know…….
IT AIN’T ABOUT RACE, ITS ABOUT LEADERSHIP
October 15, 2012 @ 11:49 am
I made the foolish mistake of voting for Obama because he as I am Black. Never again will I make that error in judgment. It wasn’t because I had any hatred towards Whites, it was because I wanted to see what Martin wished for, equality. On the other side of that I am deeply saddened in my heart by the performance of Obama. It is the total disrespect of our nations laws and principles by him and his administration a point terrribly overlooked or ignored by the people of his color. The black people who lick his boots fail to see or ignor the demise of our nation. They are under the false assumption that these freebie programs will continue into the next millenium. They cannot see the detriment that awaits them in the very near future. He gives them free phones but he gives the Brotherhood a billion dollars anualy. I ask where is his love most placed? Trillions are borrowed from the Chinese and other nations. I ask, where do they fit in to any of that? Pulblic housing, food stamps, free phones, high end interest school loans? That’s the difference between Republicans and Democrats. Democrats,programs,tax and spend and to hell with the Constitution. Republicans, integrity, work for what you want, be responsible citizens and save your money. Dash should be respected for who she chooses to vote for.
Insults to her showed the small minded character of those who hid behind a comment page. I mean, she is well within her rights is she not? My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge Hos 4:6. My implication of this scripture is for the whole nation yet I’m hoping to shake up Black Americans.
October 15, 2012 @ 2:46 pm
We need more black people helping us spread this information. I realize that it invites attacks from the black race-baiters, but it seems that black people speaking out has more influence on blacks than anything white people can say.
October 15, 2012 @ 11:49 am
Veronica Scott-Miller is out of touch with reality.Only ajunior in college with no real life experinces could make a claim that Barack Obama knows what black women want because he lives with 3 in the white house.Their wants and needs are far and away different than what hers and others like her are.So far all of them in the Obama family are taking theirs first while having done nothing of consequence for black women in particular anywhere except of course providing abortion services for those who want to have non-conseqential sex and have us pay for it.I wonder what Miller is doing about the fact that 64% of young black women in NYC are aborting on a regular basis.What is she doing to raise the moral level of the culture?or is she hole-up in her dorm room as a walking, talking non-player critizing those who want a better condition for everyone black or white.
Romney WILL WIN,and when he does she will be the new face of hatred and racism spewing her hatred against whitey.I must say she’s not learned much at Hampton University. Her views are really old-school sounding more like an uneducated antagonist than a thinking problem solver.Hampton must be proud.
Russell Simmons and Snoop Dog have made mega millions off the black community by portraying them in the worst possible light not indicative at all of the real nature of the black community. It was’nt long ago his hip-hop crowd along with Snoop Dog were brought to task for the discusting condesecentions toward black women.I would say this “mogul” who called Dash racist is indeed a racist himself within his own community,against his own people by exploiting and encouraging behavior that only deminishes the public view of who they really are and who they can be.”The Man” is no longer a white oppressor it’s people like him making millions off the condition of his own and offering nothing to alleviate the suffering his “entertainment” brings about.
So what does Obama do? He parties with them in the white house and makes sure it’s a highly visible event for all to see so as to portray an image of connecting with what young black voters like when in reality what they represent is what he and his wife has distanced themselves long ago.
So Ms. Miller must begin to realize that like Russell Simmons,The Obamas are using her in the same way and their true concerns rest with themselves and not,dare I say it , the lifting up of the black community.The more she grows up she’ll realize that it is through experience wisdom is attained.
It must be a comfort for her to know that she paid for all of the Obama family world vacations to none other than the best spots in the world.
Romney contributed over $30 million to charity last year alone
October 15, 2012 @ 11:51 am
What they fail to mention in this article is how many whites voted for Obama in ’08. Many whites would vote for Allen West,Herman Cain, or Chris Fields. It is Obama’s mindset/leftist policies that we don’t like. Mitt Romney addressed the NAACP, and was ridiculed by the media. Obama couldn’t be bothered with them because as the article points out they’ll vote for him anyway,despite the 14% unemployment rate, because he’s black.
Stacy Dash had the courage to express her opinion and was crucified for wanting to vote for Romney. Minorities should start to see that a better economy helps them get JOBS and this president hasn’t done anything to address that issue.
One must understand that the president prefers to run for the job, rather than actually DO the job once he gets elected.
Also, what is that woman talking about that Obama knows more about black women, because he lives with 3 of them. As though their situation is typical of black women across the country. How ridiculous.
October 15, 2012 @ 11:52 am
“…to choose a white Republican over the first black president.”
To call Obama the first black president, holds a certain degree of rascism to it. I have not heard once Obama say or show disdain for his white heritage. But, it is easy for those that support him to ignore that white heritage. Those individuals define the word “rascism” as it was intended.
Webster- “a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.”
So yes, they are rascist based on the fact that they disregard his whole heritage to make theirs seem to be better.
October 16, 2012 @ 5:56 pm
He discarded his whiteness long ago. His disdain for his white heritage is present every minute of every day. The man sat in Pastor Wright’s pews for years. He referenced his disdain in his own book.
The folks that vote for the black half of Barry do so because he is not white. Liberal seeds have sewn their ideology. They will put up with white liberals but they believe the white right should be punished.
Unfortunately, being 50% white has no advantage in his world. Barracks “whiteness” is his ball and chain.
October 15, 2012 @ 11:57 am
“There should not be this resistance to pride over the first black president,” Ifill says. “If we get to the fifth one, I’ll be with you.”
I oppose Barack Obama for the same reasons I opposed John Kerry. And the same reasons I opposed Al Gore. It’s not about skin color. It’s about policy. It’s about the direction he is taking this country. It’s about the man’s core beliefs.
Are we to simply ignore what this man has, and will continue to do, to this nation? The persistent drive towards insolvency? The systematic demantling of our Constitution? The purposefull division of our… of ALL our people? No. I’m sorry. But if this “first” black president win’s re-election, this free nation of opportunity may not make it to the fifth one.
Present to me a black man who has a vision of a strong America. Based upon the rule of law, and not the whim of men. Where each and every man & women, regardless of race, is allowed to decide their own course. To achieve based upon his or her own merit. And where each is held accountable for their own actions. Where all are judged, and treated, equally, under the law. Not where one is given prefernce in an attempt to right past wrongs. (For they never can. And never will. But to claim such as a reason, is to win the blind favor of some, in order possess power.)
This man I will support. Without notice of race. For he is a man of honor. Worthy of the office.
(And if “he”, should be a “she”… well I’ll make no special notice of that either. While rendering my support.)
October 15, 2012 @ 12:14 pm
It’s true that black people support black candidates just because they’re black as long as they’re not conservative. People like Clarence Thomas and Herman Cain didn’t get a lot of support in the black community and were seen as “Uncle Toms” and “sell-outs”. It’s also kind of interesting how white liberals are so often revealed to be closet racists when a black conservative runs for office.
October 15, 2012 @ 12:20 pm
I say many are voting alone on skin color and those are the ones that are part of the problem to begin witt. To them I say ok you have had your first “african american president” and his nobel prize which is a complete joke.
October 15, 2012 @ 12:28 pm
I am 62 now and I can say that I lived long enough to see the Media elect a President, I am totally convinced that Obama won in 2008 primarily because he is black, and that many whites voted for him because he was black. When he started his Campaign I look carefully at him as being A viable candidate. While watching him on TV one day and he said I have visited 57 states and have two more to go, I decided then and there that he was an Idiot that didn’t even know how many states there are in the USA he would never get my vote. It seems that in the past few years I have voted for the less of evils in every election.Then he made his administration appointments – the outright Communists, the Socialists, the anti-constitutionalists. I do not think he has an original thought in his head, someone else is pulling the stings telling him what to say and when to say it. When he had to use two teleprompters to talk to a sixth grade class really convince me of just how controlled he really is.
October 15, 2012 @ 2:38 pm
The Independent vote is what made obummer president! Without the independents he would be just a memory! The main reason I did not vote for him is because I read his 2 books and knew he was a communist! Another reason is because I am a staunch hard line conservative!
October 15, 2012 @ 9:52 pm
For an individual to become successful in business, politics, sports, etc, one MUST surround them-self with successful people.
Our current CINC apparently was, and is still, not aware of this basic fundamental. He has selected too many square pegs for the round holes in his administration.
October 15, 2012 @ 12:38 pm
Be careful all you black people who will only vote for him becaue he is black, remember l/2 of him in white.
October 15, 2012 @ 12:38 pm
Of course and, yes, that does make them racist.
There’s more racism on the part of negroes against any other race combined and that’s because they listen to racial-hustlers like “$hakedown” Jackson, “Charlatan” $harpton and “Calyp$o Louie” Farrakhan, who make a very good living promoting victimhood, class envy and racial hatred.
Look at “Colonoscopy” Powell, who voted for the incompetent Obama because he disliked the petulant little ***, McCain.
Most negroes I know voted for president Kardashian because they “wanted to make history.” I don’t mind “making history” as long as the one I’m voting for espouses my principles.
The main problem with “Dumbo” was that he had no record to campaign on, a blank-slate, an empty-suit, an empty chair, if you will but, if you researched him, you realized exactly what he was – a community-agitating communist.
October 15, 2012 @ 2:36 pm
All of the black people I know and some white people too. Voted for obummer because he was the first black man to run for president, who was nominated. And lets not forget, HE IS NOT 100% BLACK! BUT! those same black and white people I know, the majority of them! Will NOT be voting for him this time around. I am glad they have seen the light!
October 15, 2012 @ 12:39 pm
I just won the Publisher’s Clearning House Sweepstakes.
They asked me “Where are you going to go?”
I responded. I’m going down to the IRS to give them 64% of my money which they will then give to crackheads, baby factories, terrorists, campaign contributors, prostitutes, fund their multi-million dollar vacations, the Mexican cartel and Big Bird.
Because our government knows how to spend my money better than I do!
October 15, 2012 @ 12:44 pm
” … She said it has less to do with the candidate than with his party’s treatment of Obama, such as John Sununu calling the president “lazy” after the debate, a congressman shouting “You lie!” during the State of the Union address, claims that Obama is not a citizen and more.
Ifill said that for black voters, such accusations feel like white people are attacking their own dignity. “In essence,” she says, “they are closing ranks around Obama.” … ”
What Ilfill fails to understand is that the accusations made against Obama are not based on his skin color, they are based on his actions.
He IS a lazy President, he WAS misleading the listene at that SOTU address, and he HAS NOT ever proved that he is a natural-born citizen of this country.
Does his skin color ‘make it okay’ for him to fail in these areas, and many others?
THAT would be racism …
(Question for management: Why has it become necessary lately for all of my input to be subjected to moderation?)