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Hhatchet
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A great post I had to post it again for all those
[Read the article: What role did race play with white Democrats?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]who keep bringing up the black racism mess.
The Role of Race
Yes, Barack Obama has received 90% of the black vote. Bill Clinton got 83% and 84% of the black vote during the 1992 and 1996 general elections respectively (Source: Voter News Service exit poll, reported in The New York Times, November 10, 1996, 28.) One man may have become the nominee because of the black vote, but the other man became president primarily because of the black vote and Ross Perot. Bill Clinton won over 80% of the black vote in both elections while actually LOSING the white vote to the Republican candidate in both 1992 and 1996. Bill Clinton only won 39% of white vote in 1992 and only 43% of the white vote in 1996. By getting overwhelming support of one demographic in a three way race, and by winning a plurality, Bill Clinton became president. However, if the general election was solely determined by the white vote, George Herbert Walker Bush would have been a two term president.
Most of these posts like to throw around facts without analysis, or hard observation, but truth be told African Americans have shown in several previous elections that they can be relied on to support the Democratic candidate, black or white during the general election. If the African American electorate was truely racist, they wouldn't have showed up to the polls all the previous years to support mostly white Democratic candidates. African Americans have already proven that they can show overwhelming support to white Democratic candidates during the general election. However, white Democrats have been untested in this regard. Until this election, they have never been faced with the task of supporting a black Democratic candidate during the general election. If you are white and a Democrat, it is NOT racist to support Hillary Clinton. However, if these same self identified white Democrats threaten to bolt to McCain because she is not the nominee, I truely have to question their motivation for doing so. African Americans didn't bolt to the Republican party when Jesse Jackson didn't win the nomination. They still supported the Democratic party and their white candidates. God forbid African Americans actually voted for a black candidate after all the elections they supported white candidates. For all the white voters that have a problem with that, I have a one question. I'm African American, and I voted for Bill Clinton twice, Al Gore, and John Kerry, and this time I support Obama. I voted for white men in every Presidential election. If you are a white Democrat, how many black Democratic candidates have you voted for when you had the opportunity to do so? To suggest that I'm racist because I support Obama, is to insult all the support and votes that I have given to white Democratic candidates. If I was a betting man, I would bet most if not all those that have a problem with that have NEVER voted for a black candidate. When the shoe is on the other foot, and you have to cross outside of your race to support your party, come talk to me. I've done it four times. How many times have you?
-- tmaddin74
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Keeps us coming back
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Joan doesn't believe the stuff she is writting. Salon just needs readership. She is just trying to keep the fight going. Her and Rush are on the same page. By continuing the fight more people tune in.
Divisiness,hate,meaness like sex sells and we all buy into it. We all see what we want. Some see sexism others see race,elitism or anti-Americanism. America seems to be nothing but me,me,me.
I am for Obama but I would have voted for Hillary. I see through the world view of a black man who has experienced racial profiling so I don't agree with people like Farraro who tried to equate Obama with racism. But on the other hand I have four sisters and a mother who are smart,hardworking first class women who have been passed over for promotions and paid less with the same credidentials are better then their male co workers.
The real issue I had with the Clintons was that they with their people wrote the rules. Harold Ickes and Terry McCauliff wrote the rules on caucuses Super Delegates and penalties for states that did not follow the rules.
It was only after Hillary found herself behind that she wanted to change all the rules. Finally for while Hillary has been a victim of sexism can you tell me one time where Obama or has people have called for her assasination. I am not saying she did but when she spoke of "assasination" so soon after Hucklebee said Barack was ducking from gun fire and at the same time a news paper put Barack in the cross hairs and after a person was selling t-shirts with OBama as a monkey, she should have apologized to him for even being associated with such hate.
The Clintons built a legacy of being able to speak to the concerns of black people. It was not Barack who cause them to lose that support. They should have listen to Harold Ford,Rangel,and others who were telling them the language they were using was turning off black voters. But for some reason they continue down the path of saying blacks were voting for him and whites were voting for her. To the millions of voting black women, Hillary's racism was worst then any sexism and they voted largely with Barack.
If Hillary is to some how win in Denver I don't think black women and men would come out and vote. Even in 2012 blacks are going to remember what the Clintons are doing and if she fells to support him she will lose the black vote forever.