Posted on 10/15/2012 12:31:35 PM PDT by areukiddingme1
Are black people supporting Obama mainly because he's black? If race is just one factor in blacks' support of Obama, does that make them racist?
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No. They support him because he is a Dem and at least 90% of blacks are Dems.
If any other president had numbers as bad as obamas, would that president get 47% of the vote...Unemployment above 8.3 percent for over 40 consecutive months, gasoline above $4.00 a gallon, 47 million recipients on food stamps and the national debt now above $16 trillion. Who would/could get reelected with those kind of pathetic numbers...seriously. The state of nation is alarming if this president is even considered a viable option.
What’s black and white and red all over?
Barack H. Obama
You stole that.
I can’t even count the number of the man-on-the-street interviews where black people said the only reason they voted for Hussein is “because he’s black”. Lovely that we have so many deep thinkers who could vote on election day. God help us all.
Just wait for the tacit approval of the race riots post election if Romney wins. The make will be that it's just the masses expressing their disappointment with the election and should be understood and we should give them money to quiet them down.
“If the race was between Allen West and Hillary Clinton, or Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid, for whom do you think blacks would vote?”
Yours is the exception that proves the rule.
Blacks would vote for Clinton in your example because Alan West would be labeled an “Uncle Tom”, an “oreo”. He wouldn’t get much black support.
Blacks will support the black every time, with one proviso: if the black in question is not perceived as being “one of them” (i.e., the “Tom” scenario), they will “vote liberal over black”.
Thus the black backlash against Clarence Thomas, who was viewed by blacks as being a puppet of the evil Republicans.
Blacks aren’t 100% united in this behavior — there is a distinct but small cohort of blacks who seem to think more independently, and who try to escape the “racial gravitational pull” that draws the majority of blacks into a cultural world that is pointedly “non-Euro”. We saw that in 2008, when McCain won about 5% of the black vote. This time, Romney may win a little more, but it won’t be much — Obama will still win over 90% of blacks, maybe more.
There may be a number of blacks who are disenchanted with Obama and won’t vote for him again, but I doubt they will vote for Romney. They’ll sit it out instead.
Probably more Blacks turned out to vote in 2008 because Obama was Black or half-Black. But how is that different from Catholics turning out for Kennedy, Southerners for Carter, or Greeks for Dukakis? Ethnic voting has a very long tradition in the US. But I guess if White people are accused of being racist for not supporting Obma, turnabout is fair play.
I am going to vote for the white guy.
different qestion, same answer
did most black registered dimocrats vote for Obama in the 2008 dim primaries, and few black registered dimocrats vote for Hillary
I seem to remember the picture of that woman along with a story about her explaining that she voted for him last time because he was black but isn’t going to vote for him this time. If my memory is correct, we are doing this lady a disservice by posting liberal comments over her photo...but I’m in my 60’s and easily could be wrong. Maybe someone else remembers her story.
If they sit out, that’s almost as good as a vote for Romney. At least they’re not negating one.
I have asked some Black co-workers why they are continuing to support the Oba-Messiah...even though they know that he has lied steadily, not live up to his promises, and placed this country into terrible debt. Their answer? I gots to help out a “brother” doncha know?
And they say WE are racist for questioning his job performance? *pppphhhhbbbbtttt* (Bronx cheer)
Is that a trick question?
Does Congress have a "White Caucus"?
What other term would you use to characterize "Black Solidarity"?
Is there no racism in "Black Liberation Theology"?
Etc., etc....
Blacks don’t vote for blacks who happen to be Rep. Ask Michael Steele, Ken Blackwell, and Lynn Swann. Race is far less a factor than party.
“I seem to remember the picture of that woman along with a story about her explaining that she voted for him last time because he was black but isn’t going to vote for him this time. If my memory is correct, we are doing this lady a disservice by posting liberal comments over her photo...but I’m in my 60’s and easily could be wrong. Maybe someone else remembers her story.”
Wasn’t meant to attack one particular person. It’s simply the general sense of racist, entitlement mentality that plagues this once-great nation.
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