Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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The results of the interviews are not surprising. It would be interesting to have data on how black voters view people who voted for Donald Trump. Repeated polls suggest Trump voters are biased against African-Americans.
http://www.diversityinc.com/news/blacks-less-deserving-trump-supporters/
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 05/21/2017 - 12:57pm
"It would be interesting to have data on how black voters view people who voted for Donald Trump." - I'll put together the survey for you - how do you spell "dumb lame ass white cracker"?
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 05/21/2017 - 2:41pm
generalizations are great to help us grok a political or marketing situation, but only to a point.
see:
Trump Did Better With Blacks, Hispanics Than Romney in ‘12: Exit Polls
While 8% is a miniscule number poll-wise, it's actually a lot of physical people.
And then there's avid fans like
Diamond & Silk
who've actually appeared with him during his campaign, so we know they are not fake.
and then there's people like Sheriff David Clarke who hopes to be serving Trump and is in the news right now I know that while many think he's a crazy "nazi" (sound familiar) I also know he does have support of some of "the African American community" in Milwaukee....
by artappraiser on Sun, 05/21/2017 - 3:08pm
Last first - yes, really hard to believe a law enforcement officer would have strange right-wing views and that a Republican governor would nominate the wingnut jingoist kook to be sheriff and that that guy would soon be fighting with the locals trying to crash the whole division and then take off to Russia to make friends for some reason. Is the black Mike Flynn? could be. Or Ben Carson's more hard-nosed adrenaline brother. Whatevers. Let's call this "outlier".
Uh, #1 - white female candidate does worse than black male candidate with black voters. Uh, like wow. I just can't imagine how that could happen. Yes, physical people - told for 2 years how Hillary had locked up black people as "super predators" and killed welfare and simply doesn't care about black people or jobs, along with Trump lying about what he'd do for the black community, and it took its toll - with 8% of the black vote voting for Trump vs. the 7% voting for Romney (in a year when black voting percentage was higher than whites') and 9% for George W Bush. Let's just say roughly 7-9% of blacks will vote Republican whether there's an alien attack or global anthrax, and there's little to do about it. Considering black rapper attitude towards women, it's a bit surprising Trump didn't do any better - missed opportunity.
Diamond & Silk? whatever - I grew up with Rev. Ike on TV preaching rich is good and having a limo for each day of the week, and lived under a Marion Barry "bitch set me up" mayorship which was bizarre in itself. Don King for Trump? kind of fits that image. Yeah, before & after the election David Chappelle was dissing on Hillary as well. I think Trump had Mike Tyson on his side too - that carries a number of connotations, no?
Anyway, in a year of "change" it's quite a bit more surprising that the change agent Trump didn't pick up significantly more of the black vote (and probably if there'd been less vote obstruction his % would have been lower). Anyway, I'm more interested in the 88% or so (note exit polls unreliable) of the black community that voted Hillary. That's a lot of physical people too. #BlackVotersMatter
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 05/21/2017 - 3:42pm
From Salon:
If they close polling places in poorer areas and black/Hispanic concentrated districts, it's likely that the easier-to-vote districts will include more minorities who mix in with the prevailing opinion in those districts - i.e. more conservative districts are more likely to have minorities who are conservative, and if voting is easier there, it will likely increase the proportion of conservative minorities to the detriment of liberal minorities. They're not red-lining for nothing.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 05/21/2017 - 5:01pm
AA, I also know that the majority of African-American voters rejected Donald Trump. You have to go on a deep dive to find black support for Trump. The generalization that blacks did not cast votes for Trump is truth. Romney got 6% of the black vote, Trump got 8%. Both numbers are pathetic when you consider that 16% of black voters consider themselves Republican. That means that half of black Republicans were so appalled by Trump that they stayed home, voted for Hillary, or voted third party. Anecdotal musings aside, white folks are responsible for the election of Trump.
http://blackdemographics.com/culture/black-politics/
The website of the two women you note, Omarosa, Ben Carson, Dennard Paris, Mia Love, etc don't negate the impact of the white vote.
I "Trump" your website post with Sophia Nelson, a former black Republican who left the GOP because of the racism the party embraced. She and the multitude of black Republicans who rejected Trump are real as well.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/donald-trump-gop-race-gen...
by rmrd0000 on Sun, 05/21/2017 - 7:10pm