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You really should do your research. Hilary had the support of the majority of Blacks. What did them in is when Bubba dipped into the ignorance pool. That lost Hilary the primary.
Make whatever excuses you want, but the numbers are the numbers, and they show the true racism.
Black voters across the country threw their support overwhelmingly behind Obama. Nationally, 82 percent of blacks voted for Obama, compared to 17 percent who voted for Clinton. The margin was 85 to 14 among black men, and 80 to 18 among black women.
Have you not been paying attention? The Republican party actively attempts to ensure that minorities and urban poor can't vote through mandates that make it hard to vote. I mean in Texas you can have a gun permit, but not a college id.. .(because they don't want students to vote, along with poor)
I can't believe the above. Either your a little slow, or your head is buried in the sand.
This is not 1870, that party noted above is not the party of 2014.
If you are a citizen then it shouldn't be that freaking hard to get a form of ID. I mean to do most things I must carry my drivers license etc.... To imagine citizens in our cities who are unable or unwilling or too inept to get an ID is crazy. Why should we allow every and anyone to vote just because some folks feel disenfranchised because they can't obtain an ID? Quite easy to get one.
The day republicans elect black candidates who have the freedom to embrace who they are and speak openly and freely about the systemic and institutitional disenfranchisement that have faced them and others like them only will I concede that republicans aren't "racist".
Electing tokens who have to denounce everything about themselves and who they are does not prove you aren't racist. The majority white male republican party establishment will NEVER let them fully contribute to the party platform in any substantial way, just as Michael Steele.
What an utterly ridiculous post.
Please, explain how Mia and Tim Scott each had to "denounce everything about themselves"
Unbelievable. Whether you are black or white, your post is amazingly racist and bigoted
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday slammed Democrats who sought to use race against Republicans in the midterm elections, saying they were offensive and out of touch.
“The idea that you would play such a card and try fearmongering among minorities just because you disagree with Republicans, that they are somehow all racists, I find it appalling. I find it insulting,†she said on Fox News.
It's also very telling that the NAACP still has not addressed Tim Scott and Mia being elected as the first black and the first black female in their state.
Oh, that's right, they aren't "really" black and they don't really count because they aren't Democrats.
And whats to stop them from voting by mail in the state they are originally from?
And dont tell me thats not possible because I'm currently registered to vote in FOUR states..
And how would ID stop you from voting by mail in four different states... if you were inclined to do such silly ineffective thing?
That seems like a matter of State Boards of Elections not keeping clean registration rolls. Regardless, I went to school in a city away from my hometown and registered in that city as I lived there pretty much full time. Why should my college ID not count if I didn't have a drivers license?
A little perspective for you. Since you are counting, I thought the following factual information would be helpful. Below is the number of black Congressional Representatives, over the years. Next are the newly 114th Congress black congressional representatives. There are five, with only three truly being net new gains. Two of the three net new are Republicans.
Notice too, that number of blacks in Congress is plateauing. Good thing the Republican Party has come forward at the right time.
3 in the 84th House of Representatives (1955-57)
7 in the 90th House of Representatives (1967-69)
14 in the 94th House of Representatives (1971-73)
23 in the 100th House of Representatives (1987-89)
51 in the 105th House of Representatives (1997-99)
55 in the 113th House of Representatives (2013-2015) 60* in the 114th House of Representatives (2015-2017)
* Elected but not seated yet. MI, D-12, Brenda Lawrence, D: Since John Conyers held the seat from 1993-2013, this seat maintains status quo; i.e., not a net new black congress person. Solidly Dem District. NJ, D-12, Bonnie Coleman, D:Net new black congress person. District has been Democratic and Republican over the past 100 years. NC, D-12, Alma Adams: Mel Watt, newly appointed FHFA Head, held this seat for 21 years, prior to his resignation earlier this year. Not a net new black congress person. Solidly Dem District. TX-23,Will Hurd, R: This one is interesting. A mixed, Republican and Democratic District over the years, that has historically elected Latino heritage candidates. Net new black Congress person. UT-4, Mia Love, R: Relatively new district, redistricted from U-2, which is a white and mixed party district over the years. Love narrowly lost to the Democrat incumbent in the initial D-4 race, before defeating him this time around. Net new black congress person.
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That's only 5 people, lost in a sea of old white men. Big deal.
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What the GOP needs to do is start repudiating the Democrats every time they reinvent history and try to blame racism solely on them. The Republicans have history on their side to prove otherwise. They must repeat these facts often and loud to counteract the Democrats' lies and misinformation.
It's the "game" and somewhere in the middle should be compromise. No "one" group has "all" the answers. One one group of people think their idea is superior to everyone else and that they have the monopoly on good thought-ideas that's fascism - extreme liberals and extreme conservatives are guilty of that. Our nation is based on give and take and that hasn't happened the last few years.
The NAACP is one group. Anyway I think guys like Bobby Jindal, JC Watts, and Mike Steele, et al have great ideas however they have been marginalized because they point to flaws (i.e., to counter the lack of black republicans lets just get more white republicans - this was an actual suggested tactic). That's why by and large the GOP is largely white.
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