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A professor of political science and the director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University, and the author of “The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and the Rise and Decline of Black Politics.”
1 posted on 10/28/2012 6:13:32 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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Smart is voting color instead of charactor. Would you buy a broken down unreliable car because you liked the color? nuff sed. The scope of idiocy is mind boggling


2 posted on 10/28/2012 6:16:03 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (bb)
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He’s admitted black voters are racist and he supports Obama for purely racist reasons.

It has nothing to do with an objective regard for the candidates and the policies of both parties. Then again, the support of an Affirmative Action President is part and parcel of the racist liberalism embodied by the Democratic Party in the person of Barack Obama.


3 posted on 10/28/2012 6:18:19 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved FrieGrnd Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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"WHEN African-Americans go to the polls next week, they are likely to support Barack Obama at a level approaching the 95 percent share of the black vote he received in 2008. As well they should, given the symbolic exceptionalism of his presidency and the modern Republican Party’s utter disregard for economic justice, civil rights and the social safety net."

Exceptionalism like a continual crumbling of the Black family, sky-high unemployment and perpetual cultural degradation. Stay on the Democrat plantation like good negroes ! Massa Obammy commands it !

4 posted on 10/28/2012 6:19:19 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To blacks voting for 0bummer, race relations doesn’t matter; there’s no desire to unify, it’s, “too bad; he’s black, therefore he should be re/elected”.

That plus the fact that he isn’t even black is sad. Yes, I said it...he’s half white and the other half has NO AMERICAN SLAVERY ANCESTORY involved. So it’s as if a new immigrant from the Bahamas is president. Ever talked to a black person about another black person “right off the boat”? There is usually a denigrated speech about, “well, they’re not really black; they have this accent that gives them an advantage”.

0bummer has done more to set race relations back in the US than ever before, that is really the price we’ve paid.

Give me Dennis Haysbert’s character for president anyday...you know what I mean. In real life, give me Col West.

As for white libs...they’re the biggest racists of all. Feeling sorry for blacks and “helping them along” is such bigotry it makes me puke.I want to smack the crap out of all of them.

Thanks for letting me vent.


8 posted on 10/28/2012 6:23:59 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Keep your head up and keep moving forward!)
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So...95% of black voters vote for Obamas because he’s black.....which means they’re not voting for Romney because he’s white. Sounds like racism to me.


10 posted on 10/28/2012 6:27:23 AM PDT by wny
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"... modern Republican Party’s utter disregard for economic justice, civil rights and the social safety net. "

Why do we allow intellectually dishonest racists to teach in our universities? If this man really knew his history he would acknowledge that in modern times it was Demoncrats who were the most ardent haters of equal rights - can you say George Wallace and the Jim Crow Demoncrat south?! Economic justice - rhetoric doesn't put food on the table and the government doesn't produce anything - it only takes. A job is the best friend that any man, black or white, can have to meet his economic goals. Social safety net? If the ship sinks, everyone drowns. Is this reality really that difficult to understand?

Jesus recognized and called out those who stood against truth, against Him - so should we.

11 posted on 10/28/2012 6:27:41 AM PDT by JesusIsLord
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Since they have proven to be incapable of voting based of rational logic rather than racial emotion, I can’t see any reason to make any concessions to the whole septic mess. If they want to play in our sand box, they would have to be required to use American rules, rather than some hyphenated separatist nonsense.


12 posted on 10/28/2012 6:28:42 AM PDT by jonascord (Democrats are the people on the Left Side of the IQ Bell Curve.)
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You need a BARF ALERT! on this one.


13 posted on 10/28/2012 6:33:06 AM PDT by JT Hatter (Who is Barack Obama? And What is He Really Up To?)
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So many morons. So little ___________________.

(fill in the blank)


14 posted on 10/28/2012 6:33:58 AM PDT by Check6 (United States of Moronia: A nation of morons ruled by a gang of communist thugs.)
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The Price of a Black President

No biggie, just civilization of the entire planet.

15 posted on 10/28/2012 6:34:44 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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why does the word ‘diatribe’ come to mind?

He even contradicts his own ‘spew’ time and again. That’s what happens when you’re foaming at the mouth.


16 posted on 10/28/2012 6:37:15 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does)
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I reject the concept of “Economic inequality”. I reject the racism on display in this article. I reject the socialist ideas spouted by the author. And I reject the current president because he embraces all of those ideas.
17 posted on 10/28/2012 6:44:37 AM PDT by jdsteel (Give me freedom, not more government.)
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“Four centuries of Black Hope”

Someone might want to clue the idiot in the USA hasn't existed for 400 years.

Black Africa has been around for thousands of years and there still isn't any “Black Hope” in Africa because they have run the white man out.

18 posted on 10/28/2012 6:47:10 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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“A” Black potus................

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19 posted on 10/28/2012 6:51:04 AM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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As long as blacks rise in numbers to slander and denigrate one of their own for expressing a conservative point of view it can be forcibly argued that they have made no progress at all.
22 posted on 10/28/2012 6:57:49 AM PDT by Baynative
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I have a good friend who is Black and Evangelical. In 2008 she voted for McCain (neither of us liked him but voted for him anyway). Many of her Black, Evangelical friends were voting for Obama. I told her to tell her friends they were voting color over ideology. I even clued them in to his voting against BAIPA. They voted for him anyway. So, for many Blacks, color trumps EVERYTHING.
25 posted on 10/28/2012 7:00:33 AM PDT by originalbuckeye
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As well they should, given the symbolic exceptionalism of his presidency

So it's OK for this guy to say black voters are voting on race, but Sununu is not allowed to state the patently obvious that Colin Powell is voting on race?

26 posted on 10/28/2012 7:05:27 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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The president has never lived the true experience of the American black. He has also never had the true American experience, culturally. He cannot comprehend the black reality and what they have lived through and their struggles.

The blacks voting strictly by color or race have been totally misled as to whom or what they are voting for.


27 posted on 10/28/2012 7:06:36 AM PDT by Dudoight
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The summation of comments by this “professor’ says it all as to why our kids and grandkids are not getting a useful education.

Despite all the unconstitutional things Obama has done, killing 4 Americans by ‘standing down’ himself, all the debt, all the bad choices about ‘green energy’, this man still glorifies Obama.

Since he is so stuck on voting for color instead of character and competancy, I don’t think he can gripe when millions of Americans also vote on color—white—Character & competancy—Mitt Romney.

What goes around certainly does come around, professor.

For those who helped balance race relations in this country for the past 50 years, my condolences.

Obama has destroyed everything you did & put you all back about 150 years.


28 posted on 10/28/2012 7:11:11 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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The best way to really rub “color politics” into the wound is to promulgate the meme that “Obama *was* reparations”.

Meaning, of course, that once Obama is no longer in office, reparations are over, and white people no longer owe black people anything. No more “white people” guilt. Those who work not shall not eat. Objective tests determine who is best for a job. And if somebody screws up or slacks off, what happens to them is their own fault.


29 posted on 10/28/2012 7:16:45 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (DIY Bumper Sticker: "THREE TIMES,/ DEMOCRATS/ REJECTED GOD")
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