...but its the blacks that are racist.

[SheHateMe]

You seem to be trying to say that I am saying it's bad, or racist, or some other nonsense, I'm not. Looking at the history of our country, I wouldn't assume the black population in general would care which rich, crusty old white dude was in office.

You are reading too much into that one line, it says right there that Obama had an edge in 2008, we just got rid of Bush, were in an economic crisis plus a war and Obama swoops in with his angel wings, serenades everybody and gets a lot of votes...oh and that one fact about blacks voting for him along with everybody else with the extra incentive there being he was the first black Presidential nominee. NOTHING unusual. He was still a Democrat. If Obama was a Republican and got 96% of the black vote, you'd have a really good argument.

You assume that it is only possible for blacks to have been excited that we were seeing history in 2008 and that the only motivation for blacks to vote back then was solely because of the black guy in the business suit.


That's all you took away from the 4 articles I posted. Telling. Did you forget about the article that says votership increased by 2 million in the Black, Latino, and Asian communities?

 

[QueBert]

You seem to be trying to say that I am saying it's bad, or racist, or some other nonsense, I'm not. Looking at the history of our country, I wouldn't assume the black population in general would care which rich, crusty old white dude was in office.

Millions of new young black people voted in 2004 due to the Vote Or Die! campaign. While I'm sure there are a good number of black people who only voted because of Obama, the number wasm't significant enough imho to effect the outcome of the election. You have to factor in for every black person who could care less about politics and voted strictly because Barack's black, there was a white person who doesn't give a shit about politics but voted for Mitt because they didn't want a black person in the white house. I have a white neighbor who told me he voted without knowing shit about either candidate and didn't have a clue about politics in general. But he couldn't bare to see a black men get re-elected. I usually don't censor my words, but he didn't actually refer to Obama as a "black man" I'm sure you can figured out the term he used.