Hip-hop activists snub Kerry, Bush

The Hill ^ | 6/30/04

[mattdono]

Isn't this a really, really bad sign for the dems, moreso than the repubs?

We did not endorse a candidate because we feel the civil-rights leadership has gotten into the habit of voting for Democrats without getting anything back, said Bakari Kitwana, author of The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture. We cannot play the game if we cannot lobby both sides for change. The way things are now, the Republicans just ignore us and the Democrats take us for granted. It's harsh but it's true.

Well, Republicans have been trying (TRYING!) to explain this to the African-American communities for years. Maybe the community, as a whole, is starting to wise up to the pandering from the demoSCUMS.

Republicans are the part y of emancipation. Republicans are the party of the the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Republicans were the founders of the NAACP. Republicans were the founders of many black universities.

People are starting (albeit slowly) to recognize that the democrat party has become their new slave master. It is sickening to see the human spirit treated like that. I just can't fathom how any group of people would allow themselves to be systematically used the way blacks are by the democrat party.

[Dave Burns]

Of course he's snubbed. The man looks dead.
"Graveyard John" Kerry looks like he's already been embalmed.

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

Dems embrace gangsta culture.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37784

[Freebird Forever]

Unless convicted felons are given the right to vote, your group’s numbers will be far higher than actual eligible voters.

Take a look at this list. Quite a few states automatically restore a felon's voting rights upon completion of sentence.

[Destructor]

Can it be? Is the Rev. Al Sharpton still in the running!?!

[bigeasy_70118]

True dat. On EEEEEEEEEEEEE-lection day, they be rolling with their baby's mother in their hooptie drinking da 40 ounce of eight ball.

[Digger]

We cannot play the game if we cannot lobby both sides for change. The way things are now, the Republicans just ignore us and the Democrats take us for granted. It's harsh but it's true.

Get that - Ignor us - as if you couldn't make it on your own. No Bakari, you are a liberal because liberal means "give me".

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Delegates decided that education, economic justice, criminal justice, health and wellness and human rights would make up the platform. They also adopted different planks, such as free education from kindergarten to graduate school, universal health care, ending racial profiling, reparations for slavery, and opposing the military's use of hip-hop culture on MTV or in different magazines as recruiting tools.

Music has long been a part of political protest even if the music does not endorse a specific candidate.

I think they just did. But is it the democrat or the communist party?

[giotto]

The way things are now, the Republicans just ignore us and the Democrats take us for granted. It's harsh but it's true.

Poor babies. Why in the world would the Republicans just ignore them? Could this be the reason:

It cannot be just an anti-Bush [message].

And why do the Democrats ignore them? Because for all their posturing, 99.99% of the ones who vote at all will vote Democrat anyway.

[prairiebreeze]

Hip-hop?

[usadave]

The National Hip Hop Political Assembly

Being a fan of the 1950's doo-wop sound, I am hereby announcing the birth of the National Doo-Wop Political Assembly. Now I just need to convince the presidential candidates to come and speak before our group.

[Salman]

Only Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) has reached out to so-called hip-hop voters in his failed bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, and he sent a letter endorsing the convention.

Kucinich? Maybe he thinks that "hip-hop voters" are some kind of space alien.

[Salman]

Oh goodie ... black marxists ...

Marxism at least implies a certain amount of moral seriousness. These are not "workers" by any stretch.

[spodefly]

Marxism at least implies a certain amount of moral seriousness. These are not "workers" by any stretch.

Fo shizzle, my nizzle. Who needs a revolution when you have taxpayers to fund your 'universal health care' and life-long education.

[3catsanadog]

Is Alfred E. Neumann this man's brother?