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I'll counter your assumption by mentioning Al Gore received 90% of the Black vote. African American have always overwhelmingly voted Democrat.
Alan Keyes didn't get the Black vote and neither did Ezola Foster.
No... Overwhelmingly, the African Americans haven't Voted at all! sad but true. I think there should be a little questionnaire every American has to take walking into the polls to qualify them. Maybe like 5 questions, just so we know they not only can read, but understand who they are voting for, and why... This wont be the first guy elected for the wrong reason, but it will be the most devastating to this country!
Reparations. Nobody is talking about it but if Obama is elected there will be a big push for reparations for slavery. He's said he's against the idea but he's been known to refine his positions.
Obama made this statement at a minority journalists' convention this year:
"I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds."
How many of the black voters vote for Obama because he is black and not because of his politics? And how many white Democrats choose not to vote at all because the candidate is black?
Do you think this election will have a bigger turnout then normally because of Obama?
Blacks may vote for Obama in part because he's black, but remember that blacks generally vote for the Democratic candidate anyway. The real test would be to run a black candidate as a Republican and see how many blacks will let race be the deciding factor in how they vote. As for whites not voting for Obama simply because he's black, well we all know there are plenty of those people. Just look at places like West Virginia or Kentucky where whites voted for Hillary because she was white. And for many in West Virginia, even that wasn't enough. A significant percentage voted for Edwards, despite the fact that he dropped out months earlier. But this election will have a huge turnout, not because of Obama's race, but because the stakes have never felt higher. When the financial markets are crumbling, when the economy is sinking into recession, when people are losing their homes, and when the country is stuck in 2 wars, people are finally realizing this isn't just any election. That's why non-issues like gay marriage aren't being talked about. There are too many real issues and people are craving leadership.
Still waiting to read a response to my question about why is it wrong for African Americans to vote for a candidate of their own ethnic background and political philosophy, when every ethnic ground seeking political power has done the same?
It would seem, just on the face of it, a completely illogical and counter to self-interest for any minority group seeking to improve their political influence to "not" vote for a candidate who intimately shared their values, history and cultural affinity and more importantly, their political philosophy.
This has been the historic template for every emerging ethnic group working within the American political system. So, I find it more than a bit bizarre that the question is even being raised in any serious manner. Hasn't the historic argument amongst the racial discrimination deniers that all "blacks" had to do was stop their whining and join the political process? So why all the agitation when African Americans do exactly the same as Irish, Italian, Catholic, Jewish, Cuban, and Mexican Americans have done throughout the country. Why this special singling out of African Americans for employing the same electoral strategy of any other ethnic constituency?
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