Posted on 01/13/2015 8:55:21 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
What if African Americans were as politically unified as our racial attitudes make us appear to be? Suppose, for instance, we did more than believe that racial discrimination exists but actually used our political and economic muscle to remedy race-specific problems?
There are 42 million African Americans in this country with a combined purchasing power expected to hit $1.1 trillion this year. If Black America were an actual nation state instead of just a shaky state of mind, it would have a population slightly less than Spain’s and rank as the 46th-richest nation in the world, according to a statistical profile published in the Atlantic last year.
And yet, African Americans spent much of 2014 on bended knee — pleading for justice, crying for jobs, begging for equal treatment, with President Obama declaring that “a country’s conscience has to be sometimes triggered” to bring awareness to the killings of unarmed black men and boys by police....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Amen Bro
When you vote 99% for one party, you have zero political muscle. You are a lapdog.
Sheesh.
YET 95% of voting blacks vote for the party that pushed the blacks aside forthe more politically useful illegal aliens.
What is the source of most of this money?
>>An Associated Press survey two years ago found that 56 percent of Americans have explicit “anti-black attitudes”<<
Gee, I wonder why that could be?
Must be why Al Sharpton is stocking up on Viagra.
BINGO!!!
If Black America were an actual nation state …. . . would it be an “apartheid state” since it would have no whites?
Nah, I doubt enough of them play bingo to get that much revenue out of it.
Continued reparations, commonly known as welfare. (sorry for stating he obvious)
Watch what happens when the Democrat Party becomes known as the “Black Party.” Whites are fleeing the Democrat party in record numbers.
The power of blacks is that their block voting helps the Democrats in close elections. A few more elections like 2014, and the Blacks will lose their clout, and no one will try to appease them any more.
Yes, but the headline itself is slightly entertaining.
The rap music industry, drugs, EBT cards, and Oprah.
I very much doubt they or the liberals will answer that question.
Exactly.
Recall what LBJ is *reputed* to have said during the roll out of The Great Society?
There is no hard proof that he said it, but IMO it is easy to believe he and his cronies felt that way.
Raced obsessed, he is.
By definition, therefor, a Democrat.
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