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LOVE this ^^^^^^^^^^^

CVille Dem — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 19:20:55 +0000

In reply to Our Captain in Orlando today.

LOVE this ^^^^^^^^^^^

Our Captain in Orlando today.

NCD — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 19:09:32 +0000

In reply to Black voter turnout in

Our Captain in Orlando today. Not perfect, but so much better than we deserve.

Ruining the meme, dude - isn

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 17:11:53 +0000

In reply to Black voter turnout in

Ruining the meme, dude - isn't there something blacks are doing or not doing that we can pin this election on? Just in case? Don't worry, in 4-8 years we can blame it all on Hispanics, so you guys are off the hook, but for the moment we're hurting for scapegoats....

PS - that was a pretty great rundown on state of things (if that's his condensed version, can only imagine what the War & Peace version looks like). Maybe he'll be discussing with his Turkish friends how they can get their country back too.

Black voter turnout in

rmrd0000 — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 16:41:54 +0000

In reply to If Trump wins, it will be

Black voter turnout in Florida is surging

http://floridapolitics.com/archives/226530-steve-schale-notes-11th-day-e...

If Trump wins, it will be

rmrd0000 — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 15:47:48 +0000

In reply to We Don't Owe The Democrats Our Vote!

If Trump wins, it will be because of white Republican voters, period. Barack Obama only got 38% of the white vote in 2008.

22% of all black voters have voted early.. Almost half of registered black voters have already voted in Georgia and Nevada. Over 85% of registered black voters who have not voted plan to vote. There are black voters who feel that the system does not address their issues. The needs of those communities have to be addressed. The majority of black voters are under stress. Some are recovering from the housing crisis. Some have found new employment. The majority are voting for Hillary. Most fear a Donald Trump Presidency.

http://media.wix.com/ugd/8b2f7d_68f5aa5a15004e0280c0f3a4c09cf17e.pdf

The Republican Party has made itself a cesspool of racism. They have lost the millennial black, Latino, and Asian vote.

(moved down)

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 05:59:50 +0000

In reply to We Don't Owe The Democrats Our Vote!

(moved down)

The "left" is not scapegoating black voters - the media is. They're pumping up the FUD that Hillary's base isn't there for her, that she still has a millennial problem that includes blacks, that she can't count on what Obama could count on, that there's no enthusiasm, even as Republicans actively try to lower black registrations and voting.

Last night Beyoncé was rocking Cleveland, noting cheekily that she "could have stayed home baking cookies", the line that 25 years ago gave Hillary so much shit and today is just an obvious statement of women's right to choose what they do.

She gets it, blacks get it. They were Hillary's unflinching support back in March when some said Southern states don't matter, back in 2008 even when there was a black dude to compete for her affection, even back in Little Rock when it was the same issues as always, why she became a Democrat and political junkie to start with. We're good.

I watched a film on Chess Records last night ("Caddilac Records" with Queen Bé giving a fine performance ), proud of the white pioneers like Leonard Chess who built up black dreams in black neighborhoods when it wasn't acceptable or allowed and black pioneers like Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf who created early rock and roll out of blues. We're not fighting today, we're taking progress and culture one step further.

Leonard Chess died of a broken heart literally as he was closing down his studios in 1969. What could be cooler than that.

The "left" is not

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 05:57:24 +0000

In reply to I have been a stronger

The "left" is not scapegoating black voters - the media is. ... see comment at bottom.

The media collectively is not

rmrd0000 — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 04:46:38 +0000

In reply to You were the first to deal

The media collectively is not very bright and is still essentially white bread. We cannot expect media to deal with issues of race. Melissa Harris-Perry was repeatedly replaced by white bread nonsense on MSNBC until she quit. Joy Reid is doing a good job pointing out racial aspects to issues now that she is in Harris-Perry's former time slot. I never have time or remember to record Al Sharpton. CNN's Don Lemon seems pretty much an idiot to me, although some friends appear to like him.

The media can't cover serious issues, so they fall prey to nonsense. Donald Trump asked Russia to intervene in our election. Donald Trump considers Vlad Putin a friend. One high official is being investigated for ties to Russian. Newsweek just released a powerful article showing Trump ties to Russia. None of this is a big Trump story in most of MSM.

I view what happens with the Clintons as being similar to what happens when the police repeatedly follow and pull over the same car. The driver is repeatedly let go. The police are convinced that the driver must be guilty. The neighbors suspect something is wrong, otherwise the driver wouldn't be stopped repeatedly. We had Vince Foster "murder". We had a bogus story about wrongdoing at the Clinton Foundation. We had multiple Congressional investigations of Benghazi. We have a private server that went unhacked, unlike the State Dept system that did get hacked.

I see the FBI working with Russia and Wikileaks. I see the leaks going to the Trump campaign to damage Hillary. I am pissed, but I am not pissed at Hillary.

You were the first to deal

Danny Cardwell — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 04:12:45 +0000

In reply to Danny, I respect your

You were the first to deal with the issue of blaming the Black community for losses in primaries and general elections.

I have been a stronger

Danny Cardwell — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 04:06:54 +0000

In reply to If I gave you any reason to

I have been a stronger advocate for Hillary Clinton than I believe she would ever be for me. I have made some of the same arguments people in this thread have made. I live in a Lilly white community in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I can open my front door and see a half dozen Trump signs. When I lived in Richmond I knew Black people who did know any white people. I live in a community where at any given time I could be the only person of color within a few miles. I've noticed that one of my central arguments has gone all but unmentioned in the very fair and astute critiques of this post: why does the left feel the need to scapegoat black voters when their preferred candidate doesn't win? Jason Johnson wrote an excellent column for the Root a day after I published this blog. Am I being unreasonable for wanting my fellow progressives to go after the aunts, uncle's, and cousins who are actually going to vote for Trump with the same vigor they are going after people who are committed to sitting out the election? I've written here about the filth I see on a daily basis only to have some of my colleagues excuse their embrace of a virulent racist, xenophobic, and misogynistic candidate because, "trade hasn't worked for them." These comments are still up on the site. Why are people of color called on to fix issues like these when obviously we dididn't put Trump in this position?