In Mississippi, 31 percent of voters in the Democratic primary said race was an important factor in their decision. Of those, 62 percent voted for Obama. In Ohio, 20 percent said race was an important factor. Of those, 59 percent voted for Clinton. And those are just the people who actually admitted, to an exit pollster, that race was an important factor to them.Posted by Kate at March 31, 2008 10:56 AM
So I guess this means that the Democratic Party is full of racists.
Leftists continue to dance and spin around the inconvenient truth, denying it means anything. These are the same people who would go so far as to hunt for white Nazis in bathrooms and go online to create hateful sock puppets of their own to prove that there's racism out there... but they often need only look no further than the mirror.
Posted by: Canadian Sentinel at March 31, 2008 1:05 PMNice to watch the Dems ravaged finally by their decades of racial/victim group gaming. In their true spirit of form over substance putting that vacuous and very disingenuous empty suit, Obama, and his vile racist spewing pastor, before the electorate is going to cost them dearly.
The sorry state of black voters is that, thanks to the Pastor Wright clones replicated throughout so many black churches whose similar message they feed on, they continue to kneecap themselves voting for black losers like the jerk under indictment in Detroit or the thoroughly corrupt Mayor Nagin in New Orleans without much scrutiny.
At this point in our history one of the biggest ironies is that backs are far worse racists than white.
Posted by: penny at March 31, 2008 1:22 PMFrom wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._Watts)
"Continuing to be a rising star for the national Republican Party, Watts was selected in 1997 to deliver the Republican response to President Bill Clinton's State of the Union Address. During the speech, Watts chastised some black Democrats and civil rights leaders as "race-hustling poverty pimps", whose careers he said depend on keeping blacks dependent on the government."
Posted by: Gord Tulk at March 31, 2008 1:39 PMBeing diverse is a plus more times than not. One case where is not is when you are trying to draw people together for a common cause. A good analogy is trying to organize a Christmas (Holiday) party at a large diverse work place, someone will undoubtedly be unhappy.
The Democratic party typically consists of many smaller interests i.e... Feminists, African Americans, Latino Americans, Homosexuals ect...
Eventually the interests of these group clash and one group feels disenfranchised. The question is who will it be? Will it be African Americans who don't show up at the polls in November because they feel like the Democratic nomination was jacked right from under them by racist whites; or, will it be white women moving over the McCain because of comments from Billery that Obama isn't even qualified to be President?
I think it will be the first of the two, but the Democrats are not carrying any type of lead that they can afford to lose any of their core support. One thing is for sure, I'll have my popcorn and soda ready.
Posted by: Jon at March 31, 2008 1:47 PMMaybe Obama will make his pastor VP.
Posted by: Richard Ball at March 31, 2008 2:10 PMIt's amazing that the Democrats think that Obama's association with Wright is not going to be a major factor in the election. Here's a scathing article in a PA paper by an economics professor that proves this is not going away:
"The Department of Justice reports that approximately 8,000 blacks were murdered in the United States in 2005. In one year, that's exactly double the total number of American military deaths during the entire five years of the war in Iraq"
"I wonder if it's ever occurred to Obama and Wright that it probably doesn't help young people in the black community when they're told that their country hates them, that the U.S. government gave them drugs and AIDS, and that jail and genocide are the officially-sanctioned plan for them."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_559720.html
Posted by: muttsrus at March 31, 2008 6:21 PMWith all due respects to those who aren't, you're right Penny. There is a real rascist, anti-semetic streak that runs through large numbers of blacks.
Although I think it's time they got over it, the animosity towards whites is at least somewhat understandable. It's their problem with Jews that blows my mind. All I can figure out is that persecuted Jews succeeding in life exposes the lie that blacks want to believe, that they can't get ahead because we're holding them back. What would they do without their crutch?
Posted by: bob c at March 31, 2008 6:25 PMThe lefty/lib dems who rely on culture and identity politics NEVER accept that THEY are the ones who are creating and nurturing the problems.
Que the violins and the weeping .... turn up the tearful enraged rants at conservative white America!
Remember ONLY white people are racist.
Posted by: OMMAG at March 31, 2008 6:42 PMCan't remember where I read this, but of the 16,000 murders in the US in 2005 (I think), approximately 8,000 were of black men. Blacks represent about 16% of the US population, so we have to assume black men represent about 8% of it. When 8% of the population is responsible for half the murders (most black murders are black-on-black, and the number of whites murdered by blacks far exceeded the number of blacks murdered by whites), you have to wonder what's wrong with their segment of society.
But I can certainly why this leads to mutual distrust; whites think blacks are inordinately violent, while blacks blame whites for all their problems (pace the Reverend Wright).
Posted by: KevinB at April 1, 2008 4:10 AM