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Post by the Scribe on Jun 6, 2020 10:18:40 GMT
Think about it.
It's time we get more BLACK AMERICANS in Congress. It's time the Black Caucus be utilized to its full extent.
It is time to put a stop to this racism bullshit which means putting a stop to the Republiconservative Party for starters. But doing that won't be enough. The entire culture needs to change. Better schools and education for all, jobs, healthcare for all, job training with decent wages, etc. (and there are lots of etc's)
WE ALL WIN WHEN EVERYONE ELSE WINS REGARDLESS OF RACE, GENDER, ETHNICITY....
It is GOLDEN RULE time!
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 6, 2020 10:20:11 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 6, 2020 10:22:12 GMT
Can Democrats win without the black vote?www.quora.com/Can-Democrats-win-without-the-black-voteNo, a quick estimate, and rough calculation demonstrates this. The numbers are perhaps not exact but they give the rough idea. The African American Vote is about 12% of the electorate and the Democrats get 90% of it, so they get .9 x .12 or 10.8% of the electorate based on the black vote.. if this percentage dropped to say even 70% of the black vote.. the share of the electorate would then be 8.4% this would represent a loss of 2.2 % of the electorate, it would be sufficient to swing multiple states into the Red column and depending on the size of the black vote could be a very large impact. Also of note a change of 90% to 70% represents only 1/5 voters thinking the might give the Republican a chance. This is why the Democrats must make sure that African Americans are made to constantly hear that Republicans are racist.. the minute they begin to say… Hmmm it seems that under the “Racists” there is a significant improvement in African American unemployment and my median income has increased.. This is hard to square with racist policies… maybe the Democrats are lying to me… The Democrats are done.
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 6, 2020 10:35:40 GMT
Blacks and the Democratic PartyBy Brooks Jackson
Posted on April 18, 2008
www.factcheck.org/2008/04/blacks-and-the-democratic-party/Q: When did blacks start voting Democratic?
A: There was a big move to Democratic voting in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration, and another in Lyndon B. Johnson’s.
FULL QUESTION
I’ve had a question for a long time and haven’t yet found what I consider to be an unbiased source, or the raw data to do my own analysis.
For how long have the Democrats garnered the black vote? Certainly there was a point during the last century when a majority of blacks started supporting the Democrats rather than Republicans. What has been the voting pattern and what happened to change that pattern?
FULL ANSWER
Blacks mostly voted Republican from after the Civil War and through the early part of the 20th century. That’s not surprising when one considers that Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president, and the white, segregationist politicians who governed Southern states in those days were Democrats. The Democratic Party didn’t welcome blacks then, and it wasn’t until 1924 that blacks were even permitted to attend Democratic conventions in any official capacity. Most blacks lived in the South, where they were mostly prevented from voting at all.
The election of Roosevelt in 1932 marked the beginning of a change. He got 71 percent of the black vote for president in 1936 and did nearly that well in the next two elections, according to historical figures kept by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. But even then, the number of blacks identifying themselves as Republicans was about the same as the number who thought of themselves as Democrats.
It wasn’t until Harry Truman garnered 77 percent of the black vote in 1948 that a majority of blacks reported that they thought of themselves as Democrats. Earlier that year Truman had issued an order desegregating the armed services and an executive order setting up regulations against racial bias in federal employment.
Even after that, Republican nominees continued to get a large slice of the black vote for several elections. Dwight D. Eisenhower got 39 percent in 1956, and Richard Nixon got 32 percent in his narrow loss to John F. Kennedy in 1960.
But then President Lyndon B. Johnson pushed through the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 (outlawing segregation in public places) and his eventual Republican opponent, Sen. Barry Goldwater, opposed it. Johnson got 94 percent of the black vote that year, still a record for any presidential election.
The following year Johnson signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act. No Republican presidential candidate has gotten more than 15 percent of the black vote since.
Footnote: Younger African American voters have been edging away from the Democratic Party in recent years. David Bositis of the Joint Center notes “a fairly long-term pattern of decreasing identification with the Democrats by younger African Americans.” Of course, it remains to be seen what the 2008 campaign will bring.
-Brooks Jackson
Sources
Bositis, David A. “Blacks and the 2004 Democratic National Convention.” Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Table 1, Presidential vote and party identification of black Americans, 1936–2000; p. 9.
Bositis, David A. “The Black Vote in 2004,” Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, 2005.
Apple Jr., R.W. “G.O.P. Tries Hard to Win Black Votes, but Recent History Works Against It.” The New York Times, 19 Sept. 1996.
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 6, 2020 11:01:36 GMT
Do black people vote? The racist lie rooted in the American psychewww.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/19/myth-black-people-dont-vote-harmful-stereotype
Despite the tactics of voter suppression working against them, black people are one of the most stable voting blocs in the US
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Rashawn Ray
Thu 19 Dec 2019 06.00 ESTLast modified on Tue 31 Dec 2019 16.34 EST
‘Black voter turnout was 59.6% in 2016, 66.6% in 2012, and 65.2% in 2008. The voter turnout for black people in each election was higher than Latinos and Asians and higher than whites in 2012.’ Photograph: Kamil Krzaczyński/AFP/Getty Images
There is a common stereotype among black and white Americans, and it’s that black people don’t vote.
During his 2016 keynote address at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Barack Obama went so far as to say: “Even if all restrictions on voting were eliminated, African Americans would still have one of the lowest voting rates. That’s not good. That is on us.’” On the other end of the spectrum, Trump insinuated that black voters stayed home during the election. “They didn’t come out to vote for Hillary. They didn’t come out… so thank you to the African American community.”
The same message reverberated through political commentary and activism. Brando Starkey of The Undefeated wrote that, “Black people who didn’t vote let us down,” in the 2016 election. Two years later, the Detroit News’ Bankole Thompson wrote, “It is not enough to raise your fist in a political frenzy as a symbol of Black power and solidarity if you are failing to exercise the power of the ballot and not showing up at the polls.”
Despite these comments, “black people don’t vote” is not based in data: though they are only 13% of the US population, black voters are among the most stable voting bloc in politics, despite the concerted efforts to stop them. The myth, instead is rooted in an exaggerated narrative derived from Reconstruction-era stereotypes about work ethic, opportunity and culpability. Similar to how black people were the economic scapegoat for the downfall of southern states once slavery was outlawed, they also became the political scapegoat for the losses of the Republican party in the late 1800s.
After the civil war, black voter turnout boomed and elected nearly 20 black people to the House and Senate and many more to local and state positions. By December 1887, however, Congress convened without one black member in about two decades leading to “The Negroes Temporary Farewell” when black people were excluded from Congress.
As black people gained political power during Reconstruction, southern states passed stringent voter ID laws and gave black people voting literacy tests that included outlandish questions such as: how many plies are on a roll of toilet paper or how many bubbles does a bar of soap have? Some were even lynched for voting or asking for the right to vote.
Black people became disenchanted with the Republican party and some started to align with the civil rights arm of the Democratic party as Jim Crow continued to disenfranchise them. Once the 15th amendment was restored during the civil rights movement, black people instantly became a strong voting bloc for the Democratic party, particularly in the south.
When Democrats lose, however, it is the same stereotype – black people didn’t come out to vote. But in the last three presidential elections, black voter turnout was 59.6% in 2016, 66.6% in 2012, and 65.2% in 2008. The voter turnout for black people in each of these elections was higher than Latinos and Asians and higher than whites in 2012.
Of the 10 states highlighted in the graph, black voter turnout in seven of these states in 2016 was higher or the same as their percentage of the state. In five states, black people represented over 40% of Democratic voters in 2016.
While it is true that black voter turnout decreased from 2012 to 2016, it does not mean that black people are to blame for the Democratic loss of the 2016 election. Twelve percent of whites who voted for Obama in 2012 voted for Trump in 2016. Considering Hillary Clinton lost by less than 11,000 votes in Michigan and 44,000 votes in Pennsylvania, these changes made a difference too.
Despite the apparent preference for voting Democrat, black voters are not a monolith. Gender, education and incarceration are factors in determining voter turnout and political party preference. Generally, women vote at higher rates than men across race, and this is true of black women too. And, while most black women with or without college degrees voted for Hillary Clinton, only 78% of black men with a college degree (16% voted for Trump) and 82% without a college degree voted Democrat (11% voted for Trump).
This data still doesn’t tell the whole story. Current barriers to voting are real, pervasive and covert. In 2013, the decision in the Shelby county v Holder case afforded people who want to disenfranchise black people the license to do so. Incriminating documents were found on the hard drive of a Republican operative known as the “gerrymandering king” who deliberately drew new political maps to dilute the black vote in North Carolina. Nearly 900 polling places were closed from 2012 to 2016, including over 400 in Texas and nearly 40 in the Carolinas.
There are also the 6.1 million people disenfranchised due to felony convictions. About 40% of this group is black. This means one of every 13 black people cannot vote due to voter disenfranchisement.
We have to challenge the stereotypes and assumptions we make about each other and recognize that real barriers to voting continue to persist but are surmountable. If we really want to create racial equity in the political process so that all Americans can truly embrace American democracy, The Voting Rights Act will be fully restored and expanded, the Shelby v Holder decision will be revisited to prevent gerrymandering, millions of returning citizens will have their voting rights restored, and election day will become a federal day of service to remove barriers related to employment.
Dr Rashawn Ray is a David M Rubenstein fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, an associate professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, and the executive director of the Lab for Applied Social Science Research. He is on Twitter at @sociologistray
Americans have had enough ...
... and are marching for justice in unprecedented numbers. In small towns and big cities across the country, thousands of people are giving voice to the grief and anger that generations of black Americans have suffered at the hands of the criminal justice system. Young and old, black and white, family and friends have joined together to say: enough.
The unconscionable examples of racism over the last weeks and months come as America's communities of color have been hit hardest by the coronavirus and catastrophic job losses. This is a perfect storm hitting black Americans. Meanwhile, the political leadership suggests that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts”. The president who promised to end the “American carnage” is in danger of making it worse.
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