http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/blackvote/ en-us Fri, 5 Sep 2008 17:57:53 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075448/posts There is such a thing as a black Republican, but they have been all but invisible at the party's national convention which is hardly representative of America's diverse population. Breitbart . com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075448/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 17:57:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075139/posts For 50 years Lula Bridges, a black resident of Macon County, Ala., was a Democrat. But in March, she switched political sides when she realized no social or economic progress had been made in her hometown, a heavily black Democratic stronghold that suffers from high rates of poverty. "At that moment, I said I'm coming out of the closet," she said. Bridges joined blacks from across the country at a Thursday reception linked to the GOP convention. There, guests shared their Republican pride and their mixed emotions about Barack Obama’s historic candidacy. "I'm proud to say that I like Barack... FoxNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075139/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 06:48:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2066983/posts I know that most of my visitors have been linked here from lib propaganda sites using me as an example. I get the joke: I am the only black man for McCain. Hilarious. Never mind that there are several others at my church alone who agree with me. What surprises me is the litany of racist, sexist and generally disrespectful comments I have been inundated with over the past 72 hours. Here are just a few: “I’ve heard of the Log Cabin Republicans. Is this site the Uncle Tom’s Cabin Republicans?” “Silly black man, McCain is for honkies!” “Idiot, Republicans... Black Men For McCain http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2066983/posts#comment Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:40:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065895/posts Abdul Hussein Abdul Razzaq laughs wearily when asked if racism is a problem in Iraq. As a black Iraqi, Razzaq says, he faces job and social discrimination and has little chance of getting a political appointment or being elected if he ran for public office. That's why Razzaq, a longtime journalist from the southern city of Basra, is hoping that Barack Obama becomes the United States' next president. Not only will it be better for Americans, he says, it will help blacks the world over. "It will prove that Americans are recognizing that black people are just as capable as... Babylon And Beyond http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065895/posts#comment Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:56:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065666/posts TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Sen. Barack Obama isn't just inspiring black voters to register in large numbers as he gets closer to being the Democratic presidential nominee. Evidence indicates that he's motivating some black Republicans to switch parties. The only three states that track voting registration by party and race show black Republican registration dropping slightly since the beginning of the year. Yahoo/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065666/posts#comment Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:12:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2065497/posts The Catholic Difference: Would President Obama be good for black America? By George Weigel When I was a teenager, my formative, if largely vicarious, political experience was the civil rights movement. It was a time of great issues bravely contested, a moment replete with heroes and villains. It was George Wallace vowing “Segregation forever!”, Bull Connor setting dogs on demonstrators, and Klansmen bombing black churches. It was the March on Washington, Mississippi Freedom Summer, the showdown at the Edmund Pettis bridge, and much more. Anyone who sang “We Shall Overcome” in those electric years will welcome a new fact... Denver Catholic Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2065497/posts#comment Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:09:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064303/posts Obama and the Black American Family DonÂ’t Jibe By William Owens If Black Americans honestly believe Barack Obama truly has the best interests of their families in mind, then Black Americans had better pay attention to Obama on paper and not merely on skin. Barack Obama has consistently shown his opposition to several key factors that protect the Black American family: On Gay Marriage: By a large margin, Black Americans widely oppose same-sex marriage. 67% of Black Americans favor a constitutional amendment that would define marriage between that of a man and a woman. A national survey by the Pew... Modern Conservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064303/posts#comment Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:37:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063499/posts In an interview on National Public Radio last week, Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean touted the racial and gender diversity of the Democratic Party to the Republican Party. In what sounded like a slip of the tongue, he momentarily referred to the GOP as the "white party." Paging Dr. Freud. The McCain campaign pounced on the remark. Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and chair of Victory 2008 -- and one of the highest-ranking females in the McCain campaign -- issued a statement calling Dean's comments -- as if they had been intentional -- "insulting, inappropriate, and have no... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063499/posts#comment Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:16:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063228/posts The Republican Party that Buckley, Goldwater, and Reagan (re)built has not been designed to reach out to a group on the basis of identity, but on the basis of a given group’s ideas and values. By the party’s very definition — its basic principles — this precludes reaching out to groups which have race, ethnicity, and/or gender as their sole criterion for coalescing as a political entity. So when some observers wonder what the Republican Party is going to “do for” the “black community,” most Republicans will have a certain look of puzzlement on our faces, as if someone just... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063228/posts#comment Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:25:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063156/posts With less than three months to go before the general election, and with polls showing Florida in a dead heat, Barack Obama's presidential campaign is hoping to tap a well of what it says are 591,000 black Floridians who are not registered to vote. Nationwide, they say, the number is close to eight million. To get to those voters, the campaign has deployed field organizers to offices in majority black neighborhoods, including on Seventh Avenue and Sistrunk Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, in Hollywood, North Miami, and a new office that's set to open in Miami’s Liberty City. But the Florida... South Florida Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063156/posts#comment Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:29:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061228/posts THE MOST remarkable fact of the 2008 presidential election is that it remains a close race. Democrats have not known such favorable political terrain since 1932, yet what should be a blowout is looking like a blanket finish. The fundamental reason is white men. Like Al Gore in the summer of 2000, Barack Obama is roughly splitting white women. But only 34 to 37 percent of white men support Obama, according to the Gallup Poll's latest weekly index of 6,000 voters. In fairness to Obama, he inherited the problem. Not since 1976, when Democrats last achieved a majority, has a... Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061228/posts#comment Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:03:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060012/posts Barack Obama's campaign went looking for unregistered black voters in barbershops and beauty salons across the state Saturday, including Broward and Palm Beach counties, in a new outreach effort to African-Americans. http://www.sun-sentinel.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060012/posts#comment Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:09:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059744/posts A feature story in this week's New York Times Magazine asks, "Is Obama the End of Black Politics?" This in the wake of a full week of TV talking heads asking if presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama played the "race card" in his response to John McCain's Obama "celebrity" ads. And an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal by black journalist Juan Williams saying "The Race Issue Isn't Going Away." Williams is right. The race issue isn't going away. And the New York Times feature, which profiles new young black politicians around the nation -- like Massachusetts governor... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059744/posts#comment Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:36:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059576/posts The historic circumstances of the Barack Obama candidacy are likely to reduce black support for the Republican nominee. But there are African-Americans who support John McCain. Among them is Justin Jordan, a junior at Texas Southern University who says he is unimpressed by Obama. NPR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059576/posts#comment Sun, 10 Aug 2008 20:59:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056748/posts NEW YORK -- Rabbi Marc Schneier has spent decades trying to revive the Black-Jewish alliance of the 1960s, when African-American ministers and bearded rabbis marched together for civil rights. Some Jewish voters have expressed doubts about Democratic presidential hopeful and Illinois senator Barack Obama, citing both his Muslim relatives and his personal history with his fiery former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. What's more, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., perhaps the nation's best-known Jewish politician, is supporting Obama's Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain. But where some view Obama as having a "Jewish problem," Schneier -- founder of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding and... District Chronicles http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056748/posts#comment Tue, 5 Aug 2008 12:55:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055766/posts At age 64, well into her retirement from the Army, Frances Rice is at the center of a contentious campaign on race and politics -- and she has never been happier. Frances Rice, 64, grew up in Atlanta. She says growing up in poverty and segregation set her against the Democratic Party. Now, as she works to bring blacks to the ranks of the GOP, she says she feels that she is making a difference in politics. But her tactics are not winning everyone over. The leader of the Sarasota-based National Black Republican Association is a minority within a minority.... Herald Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055766/posts#comment Sun, 3 Aug 2008 16:12:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055762/posts Last year, when Sen. Barack Obama was making the circuit of conventions for journalists of color, the question was whether the prospective candidate was black enough. This year, when he appeared before the UNITY: Journalists of Color convention in Chicago, the presumptive Democratic nominee joked, “I’m too black.” Obama appeared Sunday at the close of the convention in a session aired live on CNN to talk about his observations from his trip to the Middle East and Europe, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. economy and questions from the journalists about faith, affirmative action, immigration and apologies for... Stop the ACLU http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055762/posts#comment Sun, 3 Aug 2008 15:57:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055730/posts Hearing the cable talk-show host solemnly pose the question, I could not suppress a belly laugh. For the anchor was fearful that some white folks might reject Barack Obama because he is African-American - even as a Rasmussen poll was reporting that Obama is beating McCain among black voters 94 to 1. What, other than race, explains how Obama rolled up 90-10 margins among black voters while running against Hillary Clinton, wife of the man novelist Toni Morrison dubbed “our first black president”? Indeed, so one-sided was the primary coverage in favor of Obama as the first African-American with a... bostonherald.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055730/posts#comment Sun, 3 Aug 2008 14:40:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055605/posts US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) pauses while preparing to answer a question during the 2008 National Urban League annual conference in Orlando, Florida August 2, 2008. REUTERS/Scott Audette (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA) Reuters Via Yahoo news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055605/posts#comment Sun, 3 Aug 2008 02:48:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055476/posts Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama opposes offering reparations to the descendants of slaves, putting him at odds with some black groups and leaders. The man with a serious chance to become the nation's first black president argues that government should instead combat the legacy of slavery by improving schools, health care and the economy for all. "I have said in the past — and I'll repeat again — that the best reparations we can provide are good schools in the inner city and jobs for people who are unemployed," the Illinois Democrat said recently. AP via Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055476/posts#comment Sat, 2 Aug 2008 20:23:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055424/posts Here is a report on Sen. John McCain's appearance before the National Urban League, a predominantly African-American crowd heavily in favor of Barack Obama. . .(see video) Blogs for John McCain http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055424/posts#comment Sat, 2 Aug 2008 18:03:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055314/posts I do want John McCain to win in November. Consider the alternative. I've personally been told to tread easy and not make the McCain Campaign mad, but there's certain things that need be said, and I'm proud of my tendency of saying things that need be said by those who don't want to make waves. John McCain's overtures to black groups like the NAACP, and now the Urban League may make for well-needed press, but at the same time, why do Republicans continue to ignore the one group of black folk they KNOW will vote for them: black Republicans? Bob Parks: Black & Right http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055314/posts#comment Sat, 2 Aug 2008 12:42:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055139/posts ORLANDO, Fla. -- Facing a tough crowd, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain opened with an attack on his opponent Friday before a polite but unenthusiastic audience at the National Urban League's convention. "(Sen. Barack Obama's) ideas are not always as impressive as his rhetoric," said McCain in the opening sentences of his 11 a.m. speech. The presumed Republican presidential candidate spoke to a crowd of about 1,500 in the Orlando World Center Marriott Resort and Convention Center. McCain also slammed Obama's failure to support school vouchers and school choice for parents, Local 6 News partner Florida Today reported. "Where... WKMG http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055139/posts#comment Fri, 1 Aug 2008 23:21:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051873/posts Since Mr. Limbaugh first flexed his tonsils two decades ago, Democrats have publicly worried about their lack of an answer to him and his imitators, who have proven so adept at motivating conservative Republicans to go to the polls, especially for President Bush. Now it is Mr. Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, who has a harmonious chorus of broadcast supporters addressing a vital part of his coalition, feeding and reflecting the excitement blacks have for his candidacy in general. Mr. Obama is getting support from white liberal talk radio hosts as well, but the backing he is getting from black... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051873/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:24:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050918/posts This is video is about how Obama will repeat failed policies of the past. It also shows that not all Black voters are drinking Obama's kool-aid Youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050918/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:05:39 GMT