Posted on 08/13/2018 7:29:17 AM PDT by Red Badger
ALBANY — Expressing frustration that urban issues are not being sufficiently addressed in New York, members of the hip hop community are looking to form their own party line for the coming state elections.
The line, which would be called the New American Party, is being pushed by Jineea Butler, founder of the Hip Hop Union and a Republican congressional candidate against Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-Manhattan).
Butler said she and others have spoken to rap star Busta Rhymes about potentially running for governor on the line, but he has not committed. Butler said she also has reached out to LL Cool J, but has not heard back.
“We’re looking for somebody that can energize the vote so we can clear the 50,000 votes (needed to secure a guaranteed ballot line the next four years) and someone who resonates with millennials and young folks,” Butler said.
Neither rapper could be reached for comment.
“We’re juggling a bunch of candidates we can look at from the hip hop community,” she said. “Hip hop changed the world 40, 45 years ago when it started. It just gave people an absolute freedom of speech. We want to use that same principle with a strong agenda that addresses economic disparity and prosperity-driven initiatives.”
“This would work right now in America,” she said. “America needs something else. We’re fighting against each other. We’ve come too far in this country to go back to racism. Hip hop brought people together.”
Assisting in the effort is Eric Barrier, who is part of the hip hop duo Eric B. & Rakim, which was formed in Long Island.
Butler said organizers have also discussed offering the lieutenant governor line to insurgent Democrat Jumaane Williams, who is mounting a primary challenge against Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, and the attorney general line to GOP candidate Keith Wofford.
Williams, a city councilman, and Wofford, a corporate lawyer, are both black.
“The African-American community, we want to leverage our vote,” Butler said. “Right now, we’re just being abused.”
She said blacks traditionally go for Democrats, which leaves the Republicans with little reason to reach out to the minority community, which in turn, has many Dems taking the community’s vote for granted.
To create the line, supporters would have to garner 15,000 signatures statewide on nominating petitions by Aug. 21, a tall order.
Butler, who said petitions have been circulating, believes the goal can be met.
“Part of what we want to show is that we can pull out large numbers in a short amount of time, that people can get involved in the political spectrum, and it’s worth the investment into the opportunity,” she said. “We’ve already got boots on the ground on this.”
Wofford campaign consultant O’Brien Murray said, “We love the energy and excitement this new line could provide to any election.
“For our campaign to have the opportunity to participate in a line that reaches out to the African-American community would be welcome,” Murray said. “The added benefit of the ability to deliver a message from leaders in the hip-hop community to voters who have been taken for granted by the Democratic party would only add to their strength and importance.”
Hip hop community eying new political party line on ballot, wants Busta Rhymes or LL Cool J to run for governor
Only problem is, this will make their current Governor look like a genius.
I don’t think the average black male likes being lumped together with transexuals, illegal Central Americans, angry white lesbians, and arab terrorists in the Democrat “big tent.”
I guess the Elder-Rappers need a new venue to gather crowds and ‘raise funds for personal charities’ without having to tour.
Expect most gatherings to end up with multiple arrests and assaults. The victims will be “Shocked. Shocked that there’s thuggery going on here!”
Kanye maybe. I said maybe.
hip hop=cRap=Kill Whitey.
Period.
bingo! - it's like being led to the "nerd room" when going through rush at Animal House.
Political involvement
In 2002, LL Cool J supported George Pataki’s bid for a third term as Governor of New York.[60] In 2003, LL Cool J spoke in support of P2P file-sharing at a U.S. Senate Committee hearing, stating that he wished “music could be downloaded legitimately.”[61] He also voiced his support for New York State Senator Malcolm Smith, a Democrat, during an appearance on the senator’s local television show;[62] he worked with Smith in putting on the annual Jump and Ball Tournament in the rapper’s childhood neighborhood of St. Albans, Queens. In a February 10, 2012 televised interview with CNN host Piers Morgan, LL Cool J expressed sympathy for President Obama and ascribed negative impressions of his leadership to Republican obstruction designed to “make it look like you have a coordination problem.” He was quick to add that no one “should assume that I’m a Democrat either. I’m an Independent, you know?” In LL Cool J’s Platinum 360 Diet and Lifestyle, he included Barack Obama in a list of people he admired, stating that Obama had “accomplished what people thought was impossible.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LL_Cool_J
Wow.
Just before going to Philadelphia for the debates in 1776, John Adams approached the city and said he feared we lacked the great men who could shoulder this burden and who could rise to the occasion. Shortly he found that Franklin,Jefferson,Hancock and the rest were up to the task.
Is this HipHop Party an idea whose time has come for the American people of 2018? The black race needs leadership and these music stars may be what is needed to oppose our President and split the evil Dem-Socialist vote like H. Ross Perot and other 3rd Party vote-siphoners did in the past. Libertarians reduced Trump’s vote in 2016 but he made it past them.
Bring it, brothers. Bring it.
“She said blacks traditionally go for Democrats, which leaves the Republicans with little reason to reach out to the minority community, which in turn, has many Dems taking the community’s vote for granted. “
“For our campaign to have the opportunity to participate in a line that reaches out to the African-American community would be welcome,” Murray said. “The added benefit of the ability to deliver a message from leaders in the hip-hop community to voters who have been taken for granted by the Democratic party would only add to their strength and importance.”
The realize they have been bamboozled..................for 50 years................
What fun! I can hardly wait to see the slogans and the ads. Wonder how many shootings there will be at rallies?
As if the US hasn’t spent oodles of money on urban problems over the last 60 years. Time for urban dwellers to look in the mirror to see where their problems originate.
That’s a good idea. Also, why not a blm candidate, or an Indian candidate, or one for all the other certified victim groups, with a mandated percentage of votes going to each of the victim candidates?
Makes as much sense as anything else the left is demanding.
“The black race needs leadership and these music stars may be what is needed to oppose our President and split the evil Dem-Socialist vote like H. Ross Perot and other 3rd Party vote-siphoners did in the past.”
Yes, the black community can benefit so much from this genre of hate-whity music that extols the virtues of hoes, baby mamas, niggas, fortys, cocaine, money, killing rivals,. Good wholesome stuff, that hip hop.
Since I spent my early life in a 100% white suburb outside Detroit during the White Flight era,1967 Riots (I was at Wayne State University delivering campus mail during them!),and the Macomb County Reagan Democrat movement which has a lot to do with Trump today, I find I hard to believe some blacks are getting off the Dem Plantation, but I hope and pray it is true.
They have seen the DIFFERENCE between OBAMA’s Administration and TRUMP’s.
The difference is striking.
They now see what the Dems have been doing for decades.
If you have a political party that depends on poor people for its power, you make damn sure you always have plenty of poor people..............
L L Cool J won’t want to take the pay cut. He is very successful now on his own.
Busta Rhymes is the ONLY rap artist on planet Earth with a sense of humor. The rest of the genre are angry little Napoleon narcissists.
political party that depends on poor people for power must make sure they always have plenty of poor people....
Is that why the community organizer Prez Obummer said to a guy I heard interviewed who worked on his administration of federal welfare programs-—”No, stop demanding they look for work. No more work requirements. Keep them on the rolls with benefits.”
Was Obummer being more spiritual? Maybe not.
To the poor: to get the benefits you totally depend upon, keep voting Dem forever or else! And go back to the couch and watch Ellen or something, I don’t care.
Yes, if you have kids roll up the car windows if a black is nearby with all that you listed on a blasting illegally loud care stereo. Especially the parts about disrepect for women and police officers.
I think the casual acceptance of that music (1980s??) was a big part of the decline of the non-persons of color young people who then grew up debauched and degraded. Unwed mother in high school-—I mean single mom. Father who cut out on his children-—I mean father absent single mother head of household family. Using illegal drugs, I mean recreational drug use. “Everybody does it.”
Think of the decline that was casually accepted all these years so as not to appear too stuffy like Billy Graham.
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