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-Given the fact that basically every quantifiable metric showed that blacks struggled more under the first four years of Obama's term than the previous administration yet still 93% of them voted for Obama, it's a tough sell to say they approve of his policies as being the reason they vote for him. Don't kid yourself, be realistic.
-Can someone who thinks the GOP insults black people please post a YouTube link or two of where any active Republican ever said anything negative toward black people? Or are you just jumping to conclusions that cleaning up entitlements is an indirect shot at blacks?
Other Newt Gingrich idiotic comments about black people:
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In the 16th Republican presidential debate of the political cycle, this one in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Gingrich said African-Americans should not be offended by his recent comments over food stamps and child labor.
The issue was brought up by moderator Juan Williams, who said: "Speaker Gingrich, you recently said black Americans should demand jobs, not food stamps. You also said poor kids lack a strong work ethic and proposed having them work as janitors in their schools. Can't you see that this is viewed, at a minimum, as insulting to all Americans, but particularly to black Americans?"
Michelle Bachman about black children being better off in slavery than today:
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Republican presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann is standing firm behind a pledge she signed Thursday that promotes marriage and social conservative values, but includes a passage that suggests black families were in better shape during slavery.
The two-page document condemns gay marriage, abortion, pornography and infidelity. But perhaps the most controversial part can be found in the preamble comparing the state of the black family in the slave era to today.
"Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA's first African-American President," the opening statement reads.
Alice Stewart, a spokeswoman for the Bachmann campaign, told FoxNews.com that the Minnesota congresswoman has no second thoughts about signing the pledge.
"She stands by the points that are outlined in the pledge," she said. "Particularly the ones for strong marriage. She's been happily married for 32 years. That's the focus of the pledge."
Santorum also signed that pledge and said this about "Civil Rights" for fetuses, saying disparaging things about blacks/slavery and women's rights being superceded by fetuses:
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Santorum has invited controversy before by linking slavery to abortion. In January, he questioned why Obama is denying civil rights to fetuses by supporting abortion rights. He told the Christian Broadcasting Network that for decades, slavery allowed blacks to be treated like property. He said fetuses are denied the right to life because they are considered property.
Same Source as above.
And oldie - Trent Lott on Strom Thurmond:
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"I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either," said at last week's party.
Thurmond ran as the presidential nominee of the breakaway Dixiecrat Party in the 1948 presidential race against Democrat Harry Truman and Republican Thomas Dewey. He carried Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and his home state of South Carolina, of which he was governor at the time.
During the campaign, he said, "All the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, our schools, our churches."
Thurmond's party ran under a platform that declared in part, "We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race."
Reagan also began his 1980 campaign in the place where 3 Civil Rights workers were killed in Mississippi in the 60s and stated that his campaign would be fully behind "states rights" which many black people consider to be the new term for discrimination against minorities. He also coined the term "welfare queen" about a woman on the South Side of Chicago which is a very negative stereotype of black women that still persists in this country. You can see evidence of it here on this thread and others as many people who are not black grossly over estimate the amount of black people who are on welfare.
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Here's how Reagan first told the story when he ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1976. At virtually every campaign stop, he attacked welfare chiselers by bringing out the same character, according to press accounts.
"There's a woman in Chicago," Reagan said, according to an article in the now-defunct Washington Star. "She has 80 names, 30 addresses, 12 Social Security cards. ... She's got Medicaid, getting food stamps and she is collecting welfare under each of her names. Her tax-free cash income alone is over $150,000."
Reagan never said the Welfare Queen was black, but he didn't need to. People assumed she was because of rhetorical clues Reagan dropped.
"The Welfare Queen driving a pink Cadillac to cash her welfare checks at the liquor store fits a narrative that many white, working-class Americans had about inner-city blacks," Hinshaw says. "It doesn't matter if the story was fabricated, it fit the narrative, and so it felt true, and it didn't need to be verified."
I love how obsessed this forum is with how black people vote, especially when they pretty much despise blacks in every other situation.
People I believe to be racists almost always post questions like this one, and they try to cover their tracks by saying either they're not racist or they don't want the discussion to denegrate into talk of racism. The agenda is pretty clear. It's important that the rest of don't let them get away with it.
The GOP needs to diversify if only to know something about other groups. I could have told them Black folks don't care about unemployment and other pocketbook issues, supporting a Black president will trump that everytime. The GOP was very silly to think that high unemployment under Obama suffered by Blacks would dampen their support of him.
The exit polls showed that voters mirrored the makeup of the electorate four years ago, when Obama shattered minority voting barriers and drove young voters to the polls unlike any candidate in generations.
White voters made up 72 percent of the electorate - less than four years ago - while black voters remained at 13 percent and Hispanics increased from 9 percent to 10 percent.
That flew in the face of GOP assumptions that the fierce economic headwinds of the past three years and the passing of the novelty of the first African-American president would trim Obama's support from black voters, perhaps enough to make the difference in a close election.
However, Obama carried Virginia, the heart of the Old South, in part by having increased his record support from black voters there in 2008, which reached 18 percent, to more than 20 percent, according to Obama campaign internal tracking polls.
I watched the election from California, a Democratic state, and while I am unable to vote as a felon on parole my support went behind President Barack Obama. This election marked an important decision between poor and rich in a way we had not seen in prior elections. In one article I read it compared the two candidates by saying Obama looked to strengthen the social safety net, while Romney looked to overhaul the program. While I don't agree with every decision Obama has made in his first term, I do believe he has the interest of the working family at heart. My call to Obama and his administration focuses more specifically on African Americans who turned out in higher number than in 2008 in many areas, and carried him into the White House as part of larger coalitions. There are around 43 million African Americans and we accounted for a large block of the votes that got Obama a second term in office. According to ABC polls, 96 percent of African American voters were predicted to vote for Obama.
These African American votes came at very low political and marketing cost, with no direct promises to Black America. The black votes were based on our faith for something more in the second term. This allowed Obama to focus on other votes that did require promises, and not be spread thin. Obama has energized the streets to take part in politics, leading gang members, drug dealers and hip hop stars to turnout to the polls in hopes of something better to come in the future in ways we had not seen prior.
Obama doesn't have to do much for Blacks in a political sense and he certainly won't be held accountable by them. This is his secret to power. He can get 12% of the vote with minimal effort and concentrate on getting the other 38% by promising things dear to them, gay marriage, amnesty etc.
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condemns gay marriage, abortion, pornography and infidelity. But perhaps the most controversial part can be found in the preamble comparing the state of the black family in the slave era to today.
