The Racist Black Vote

The midterm election is less than three weeks away, and people are already starting to make predictions about who will win and what it will mean to the nation depending on who wins and who will have a mandate and how they should use it. *Yawn* They then site polls, statistics, and trends to back them up. *Snore* Then other people start dissection what those people say and adding further comments on it. *Lumberjack level snore*

Kinda reminds you of the ancient Jews and their commentaries on the commentaries of the Torah.

Makes me wish for the days when someone ran for office saying that they were going to do something, instead of saying what everyone what to hear with a wink and a nod to their base.

But regardless, this brings me to what I was reading to that in order to win, Democrats have to turn on the “Black and Brown vote” in order to win. If they don’t, it’s all over and the Republicans will take over the Senate. 

Now, this might be, and very likely is, is just an elaborate ploy to scare Black voters into going to the polls on Election Day. But putting that aside, the article raises several interesting thoughts.

I would like to go back to earlier this year, when the immigration debate was all the rage. Do you remember what the Democrats (hereinafter “Dems”) were saying to the Republicans about the Comprehensive Immigration reform legislation? That if the Republicans didn’t support it, they (the Republicans) would be on the wrong side of history and be a minority party for a generation? Now, all of a sudden, the Democrat Party is going to be the minority party without these minority votes?

First off, it was a Republican, President Lincoln, who fought the free the slaves against the Dems (aka the Confederacy).  Come to think of it, the Republican Party was started as an anti-slavery movement.  Further, a greater percentage of Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than did the Democrats. Republicans have been on the right side of history as far as rights for Blacks go for 150 + years, and we still only get like 5% of their vote. So color me skeptical about this whole idea that Republicans have to be on the right side of history in order to get the minority vote. The Democrat Party is a living example to the contrary.

I mean really, do you think the Dems are going to tell or help the Republicans do anything that would threaten the Dems strangle hold on the Black vote? I think not! Anyone in the Republican Party who follows the Dems advice on this is the modern equivalent of someone in the Old West buying snake oil from a traveling salesman.

Also, I know that it is a political fact, but why does the black vote support the Dems so much? I don’t understand it (see historical notes above). Additionally:

• Isn’t it the Dems who are advocating for millions more low skilled workers who will compete directly with Blacks for jobs?
• Isn’t it the Dems who are keeping the southern board wide open, allowing innumerable drugs to flow into inner cities, bringing with them the violence, poverty, and broken families common with drug use?
• Isn’t it the Dems who oppose voter ID laws because they “disproportionally affect minorities” (i.e. Isn’t it the Dems who who think Black people are so dumb they wouldn’t be able to figure out how to vote if they had to bring an ID?)? [Additional side note, I don’t hear those same arguments made about having to show an ID to cash a check or drink alcohol!].
• Isn’t it the Dems who are, and have been, in charge of every major city since the ‘70’s, and aren’t those cities the main places with Black poverty and violence?
• Aren’t those the same cities that when you drive through them you can easily tell where the black community lives because that is the worst, most dangerous part of town?
• Isn’t it the Dems who, when forced to allow people in those crime infested cities to get a concealed carry license  (such as Chicago and DC), they make getting the license and gun, a tool with which a Black person could defend themself, something so onerous and expensive that only rich people (aka non-black people living in rich, non-dangerous neighborhoods) are able to get them?

I could go on and on, but really, you get the idea. The point is, with all this going against them, maybe the Black vote should stay home and make their voice heard another way.