..unwarranted crass comment, it just galls me. It’s so stupid and pointless.
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Explain to me the difference between one voting FOR someone JUST BECAUSE he is Catholic, Jewish, Black, White etc as to someone NOT voting for someone with the main reason being he is Catholic, Jewish,etc etc etc....
My only point was that Blacks today openly supporting a Black is no different than in 1960 Irish in particular and Catholics in general voting for JFK just because he was ‘one of them’.
I don’t know who I would have voted for in 1960.
I was a R coming from a D ‘background’ and it was the first Pres Election I could vote but was in Japan and voting was not one of my ‘priorities’.
“My only point was that Blacks today openly supporting a Black is no different than in 1960 Irish in particular and Catholics in general voting for JFK just because he was ‘one of them’.”
My mother was an Irish Catholic, and she voted for Nixon. She referred to the Kennedys as “inbred shanty-Irish trash.”
Perhaps you’re overestimating the number of people who voted for Kenney *solely* because he was Irish and Catholic.