Reply #42: So, as long as whites are more than 50% of the electorate, it is wrong to ask whether there's a

[EffieBlack]

problem with them voting 99% year after year after year for white candidates against black candidates?

For example, in 2004, white Democratic votes were split between Kucinich, Dean, Kerry, Edwards, and Sharpton as follows:

Kerry 64%
Edwards 21%
Dean 5%
Kucinich 5%
Sharpton 1%


On the other hand, in the same year, black Democratic votes were split this way:

Kerry 65%
Edwards 15%
Dean 5%
Kucinich 3%
Sharpton 5%


In other words, 99% of white voters voted for white candidates and against the black candidate, who got less than 20% of the vote of the lowest polling white candidate. On the other hand, 94% of black voters voted for white candidates and against the black candidate. You don't see anything telling in these numbers?

If the fact that 80-90% of black voters are voting for Obama this time around is somehow proof of black racism, wasn't it racist for 99% of white voters to vote for white candidates in the past? And if black voters have consistently supported white candidates over black candidates in the past, what proof do you have that black support for Obama is based on his race and is therefore, racist? What changed between 2004 and now that has suddenly turned black voters into a pack of racists, something we clearly weren't four years ago?

Or could it be that, unlike white voters, black voters have consistently voted for whomever they thought would be the best representative, regardless of race, notwithstanding the consistent attempts to view everything we say, do and think through a prism of race - something that is never done to white voters?