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UCmeNdc

(9,589 posts)
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 03:29 AM Dec 2017

Charles Barkley NAILS Why Black Voter Turnout Is So Important

‪This is why the GOP spends so much time and effort suppressing the black and latino voter blocks. Charles Barkley correctly identifies the third element the Democratic politicians need to help is poor white people. Emphasis is on the word poor!

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Charles Barkley NAILS Why Black Voter Turnout Is So Important (Original Post) UCmeNdc Dec 2017 OP
The message of this election should be carried to all African American OnDoutside Dec 2017 #1
The GOP actively works on laws and other activities to make them stay at home UCmeNdc Dec 2017 #3
Yes, there can sometimes be a defeatist attitude when republicans do OnDoutside Dec 2017 #4
Thanks, "Sir Charles" Ken Burch Dec 2017 #2
Stronger together. ffr Dec 2017 #5
For later viewing tnlurker Dec 2017 #6
Barkley has identified as a republican in the past mnmoderatedem Dec 2017 #7
Years ago, during Barkley's initial flirtation with Republican politics, he was oasis Dec 2017 #8
A Bit Of A Myth ProfessorGAC Dec 2017 #9

OnDoutside

(19,905 posts)
1. The message of this election should be carried to all African American
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 03:56 AM
Dec 2017

Communities, and hammered home now, that even in the most Red state, if you gotv, you have a chance. If you stay home, you have no chance.

It's a great advertisement.

UCmeNdc

(9,589 posts)
3. The GOP actively works on laws and other activities to make them stay at home
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 04:09 AM
Dec 2017

The Democratic Party has to be proactive and protect their ability and rights to vote.

OnDoutside

(19,905 posts)
4. Yes, there can sometimes be a defeatist attitude when republicans do
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 04:14 AM
Dec 2017

stuff like that but it's the time to fight harder. Alabama showed what could be achieved with extra effort.

 

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
2. Thanks, "Sir Charles"
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 03:59 AM
Dec 2017

I know you usually don't want to be anyone's "role model"...but this week, you WERE.

mnmoderatedem

(3,706 posts)
7. Barkley has identified as a republican in the past
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 06:52 AM
Dec 2017

when hinting at a political career, many years ago. Wonder if the evolution (degredation) of the GOP over the years has changed his position. Looks like maybe it has.

oasis

(49,150 posts)
8. Years ago, during Barkley's initial flirtation with Republican politics, he was
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 08:06 AM
Dec 2017

involved in an tv argument with "Liberal Bias" author Bernard Goldberg. Goldberg berated him and called him out on being a political lightweight. At one point, Goldberg employed what could be considered a racial stereotype put down (they were in separate studios, of course). I believe that encounter was the beginning of Barkley's "evolution" away from the GOP.

Years later, Obama came onto the national stage.

ProfessorGAC

(64,413 posts)
9. A Bit Of A Myth
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 08:30 AM
Dec 2017

He was a novice in terms of political awareness. He mentioned that he liked some things the R's said to his grandmother. She scolded him that "republicans are for rich people". To which he replied, "gramma, we are rich people."

Nothing much he's said or done since that early period suggests he really was part of the republican philosophy.

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