Is Obama taking black vote for granted?

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I definitely don't know much about the black vote, but I do know about me. A white woman who was seriously very down on obama for many reasons. At this point I am very enthusiastic about voting for him, something I did not think would or could happen this time around. Because I feel literally under attack from the right, as if they won't be happy until I'm in a Burqa, or forced to bear my rapist's child


If you had a child conceived of rape, how would that harm you? Why should an innocent baby be killed because of one evil act? Will killing the baby make you forget?

and then FORCED TO GIVE THE RAPIST VISITATION RIGHTS, maybe have him over for fucking tea, or maybe it won't be long now that they have come out for forcing us to give birth and forcing visitation rights on us, they will just take a page out of the Taliban book and force us to marry our rapists.

Could you be any more melodramatic? Who is suggesting such a thing? If I had my way, all rapists would be executed.

So yeah, I would say the R's have riled up the women alright.

Only liberal women

It's a sad day when you have to be grateful and jump to vote for a man just because he came out, unprovoked, and stated that rape is rape and we don't need to be parsing rape and men don't need to be making laws about women's health. But that day is here.

Who are you kidding, you were always pulling the lever for OWEdummyfucker. This rape thing is a just a distraction for you left wingers to try to gin up support for the halfrican american.

 

[blackascoal]

I am certainly familiar with your certain breed of whining crying, self-defeatism, BAC. Thank goodness the vast majority of Black people don't share your sentiments. While I may agree that Black participation at the polling stations will not be as enthusiastic as in 2008 it will be nonetheless representative of the Black community at large. I just can't be concerned about wars like you as I am a veteran of many of them myself. Until just a few years ago when duty called me I answered faithfully and patriotically. I've grown a lot since then but I continue to put aspirations of the country above my own. I'm not in that particular scene anymore and I allow the military leaders and the politico's to operate overtly or covertly as they seem to see fit. I've never had a utopian government or military and I don't see one happening anytime soon.

WHAT?

Post where I said that African-Americans won't go to the polls for Obama .. or did I say they will go the the polls far less enthusiastic then in 2008?

If that is indeed what I said, what in the hell are you whining about?

Obviously you couldn't wait to jump at the chance to defend him against something YOU AGREE WITH.

What the fuck?

 

[blackascoal]

The African American Achilles Heel

I recently had a telephone conversation with an African American woman functionary of one of the Blackest, and historically more progressive, unions in the country. I had never met the young woman. She'd seen a You-Tube of a talk I’d given on how private school vouchers and, later, charter school advocates were financed by corporate forces to drive a wedge between Blacks and teachers unions, two of the main pillars of the Democratic Party. The person I’d originally been conversing with had suddenly put the union official on the phone, and she thanked Black Agenda Report for its insights on the issue. I thanked her in return, and said that President Obama had proven even more effective than George Bush in his assault on public education and teachers unions – something she did not want to hear.

Was I supporting Romney, she asked? No, I support public education, I replied, and Barack Obama has been a more effective champion of privatization of schools during his three and a half years in office than the Republicans could ever have dreamed of.

The conversation turned cold as ice. There was nothing – nothing! – she said, that could shake her faith in this president. What about preventive detention, I asked? Didn’t it upset her that Obama had signed into law a bill, the National Defense Authorization Act, that gutted the Bill of Rights, allowing the arrest by the military of American citizens without trial or charge on the say-so of the president – Barack Obama or any president, Republican or Democrat, that succeeds him?

She had never heard of the preventive detention law, she said, in a tone that clearly indicated she believed I was making the whole thing up. Quickly, she repeated that there was nothing that could alter her dedication to Obama’s reelection.

Of course, she did not know of Obama’s careful shepherding of preventive detention through Congress, last year – because she did not want to know. Like tens of millions of African Americans, she filters out any and all information that might shatter the illusion that Obama is all that stands between Black folks and the Devil, himself. She cannot see the Devil – the corporate demon – when he appears in the perfect camouflage of a Black icon. She is intelligent, and a union activist who understands the evil intentions of Republican school privatizers and union busters. But, when The First Black President builds on the same corporate game plan to put the full weight of the federal government behind massive school charterization and the de-professionalization of teachers, she is willfully blind, deaf and dumb.

Our Black female trade unionist is a descendant of a people who have, of historical necessity, been the staunchest defenders of civil liberties. Yet, for her and millions like her, the Black president and preventive detention cannot coexist; it simply does not compute. And so it goes for Obama’s expanding wars, especially in Africa, his wholesale shredding of international law, his servitude to the banks. Black consciousness, itself, succumbs to a fatal illusion.

In Barack Obama, our enemies have found our Achilles Heel.
http://blackagendareport.com/content/african-american-achilles-heel

 

[blackascoal]

I just can't be concerned about wars like you as I am a veteran of many of them myself. Until just a few years ago when duty called me I answered faithfully and patriotically. I've grown a lot since then but I continue to put aspirations of the country above my own. I'm not in that particular scene anymore and I allow the military leaders and the politico's to operate overtly or covertly as they seem to see fit. I've never had a utopian government or military and I don't see one happening anytime soon.

So you've "grown" to not care about the deaths of innocent people.

Nice.

I'm sure that if Obama loses .. you'll grow back the other and pretend once again that you actually care about human life.

You must pardon my "breed" of principled and consistent people who get in the way of your politics.

 

[gui1tars]

So you've "grown" to not care about the deaths of innocent people.

Nice.

I'm sure that if Obama loses .. you'll grow back the other and pretend once again that you actually care about human life.

You must pardon my "breed" of principled and consistent people who get in the way of your politics.

Stop being such a dumbass, BAC. You are every bit as dangerous to the Black community as any rethug.

 

[blackascoal]

Stop being such a dumbass, BAC. You are every bit as dangerous to the Black community as any rethug.

Glad to know that's how you think Bwana. Any BLACK opposition to what BWANA thinks is dangerous to other BLACK people.

Perhaps you can educate me more on what black people think and what is best for us.

People like you are one of the reasons I am not a democrat or a liberal.