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It's been said, that since the Black support for Romney is at zero percent… (Original Post) MrScorpio Aug 2012 OP
I think you are right to doubt... SIDURI Aug 2012 #1
Doggy whistlin' vigier Aug 2012 #2
Absolutely SIDURI Aug 2012 #3
if no african americans vote MrDiaz Aug 2012 #4
No, because they have every reason not to vote for Romney. redgreenandblue Aug 2012 #5
Um, what? a la izquierda Aug 2012 #6
no i was just MrDiaz Aug 2012 #7
Who is "we"? BumRushDaShow Aug 2012 #8

SIDURI

(67 posts)
1. I think you are right to doubt...
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 02:20 AM
Aug 2012

... the level of their concern. The Mittwit's appearance at the NAACP Convention was an exercise in sheer arrogance the like of which I had seldom seen before.

Siduri

 

MrDiaz

(731 posts)
4. if no african americans vote
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 06:00 AM
Aug 2012

for Mitt Romney does that mean they are racist?
After all that's why most white people didn't vote for Obama!

a la izquierda

(11,791 posts)
6. Um, what?
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 06:39 AM
Aug 2012

I have plenty of white friends, and we all voted for Obama. In fact, everyone that I know (with the exception of some family) voted for Obama. All either white or Hispanic. That's a lot of people.

 

MrDiaz

(731 posts)
7. no i was just
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 08:24 AM
Aug 2012

pointing out that for awhile here we were calling most whites racist for not voting obama, and i disagreed with it then and I still do now...I just wanted to see what the responses would look like when the situation is reversed. Thanks

BumRushDaShow

(128,845 posts)
8. Who is "we"?
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 08:39 AM
Aug 2012

In the "'we' were calling most whites racist"?

When you have dog-whistling or megaphone-blaring whites code-talking or outright saying "black people" (and then back-tracking to say "blah people&quot , then they are being called out as the racists, whether they vote for Obama or not.

There is no "reverse" on some scale that you are claiming. Blacks make up about 13% of the total population, about 6% of the voting age population, probably only about 4% of the registered voters, and about 3% (in a good year) of actual voters, so there is no there there in your argument.

If you look at the record, now having had a black President for the first time, ALL of the previous elections back to the 14th Amendment's time when at least black men were briefly given the right to vote, blacks basically only had a white candidate to vote for in the general election and we DID vote for that candidate based on our interests and the interests of the parties to which we belonged.

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