Stephen A. Smith Wishes Every Black American Would Vote GOP for One Election

[thoughtone]

Typical uninformed comment.


source: Mediaite


ESPN host Stephen A. Smith thinks that if, for one election, every black American voted Republican, it would send a message to both parties that the demographic is not under any one particular party’s control.

“What I dream is that for one election, just one, every black person in America vote Republican,” Smith said Tuesday afternoon at the Impact Symposium at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. His explanation:

From what I’ve read, Barry Goldwater is going against Lyndon B. Johnson. He’s your Republican candidate; he is completely against the civil rights movement. Lyndon B. Johnson was in favor of it — civil rights legislation. What happens is, he wins office, Barry Goldwater loses office, but there was a Senate, a Republican Senate, that pushed the votes to the president’s desk. It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation — the southern Dixiecrats. So because President Lyndon B. Johnson was a Democrat, black America assumed the Democrats were for it.
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According to the clip, first published by Breitbart, Smith clarified further that black people voting for the Republican Party would be a great way to get both parties to pay attention to the racial demographic’s needs:

Black folks in America are telling one party, “We don’t give a damn about you.” They’re telling the other party, “You’ve got our vote.” Therefore, you have labeled yourself “disenfranchised” because one party knows they’ve got you under their thumb. The other party knows they’ll never get you and nobody comes to address your interest.
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During his impassioned monologue, Smith likened blacks voting for Republicans to customers “shopping around,” essentially asking shops to “cater to them” so that they will do business.

“We don’t do that with politics,” he lamented, “and then we blame white America for our disenfranchisement.”

In the 2012 election, 93% of black voters supported President Barack Obama, with just 6 percent casting their ballots for the losing Republican ticket. That disparity led the Republican Party to publish an autopsy report detailing ways it can try to win over more votes from minority groups.

Listen to the audio below:

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[Mr. Bizkits]

Prior to the passage of the civil rights bills in the 60s, blacks already were voting all Republican, it didn't work then, it wouldn't work now.

 

[thoughtone]

Prior to the passage of the civil rights bills in the 60s, blacks already were voting all Republican, it didn't work then, it wouldn't work now.

The voting rights act primarily concerned the restrictions on voting in the former confederate states. Poll taxes and so called literacy tests.

The misconception repeated by today's republicans is that republicans supported the voting rights at more than democrats.

The reality is that all southern members of the senate and congress of both parties, except one, Ralph Yarboroug, Democrat of Texas were anti voting rights act.

George Herbert Walker Bush, the first President Bush, was against it when he ran for Senator in Texas in 1964. He lost to Ralph Yarboroug, the only Democratic Senator in the south who strongly supported it. The only republican senator to exist in the south during that time, John tower of Texas voted against it.

Only one Democratic Senator in the North voted against it. Robert Byrd of West Virgina.

There were 5 republican senators in the north that voted against .

Robert Byrd later apologized profusely for his vote against the voting Rights act of 1964 as well as his membership in the KKK and became one of the biggest supporters and advocates of President Obama's campaign for president and one of his biggest supports during is last days as a senator and in fact was one of the deciding yea votes for Obamacare.

Not defending the democrats, but the facts are the facts.



source: The Grio

When Senator Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia) died on June 28 at the age of 92, he was the longest serving member of Congress in U.S. history. In 2006, he was reelected for an unprecedented ninth term in office. And he was elected by his colleagues to more leadership positions than any senator ever. With 18,000 votes cast and a career attendance record of 98 percent, he had a proud record of achievement. But he also had a disturbing history as a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. Byrd would later renounce his racist past, demonstrating to us that people have the power to change and move beyond their hate.

 

[Art Vandelay]

Embed assist?

Here's the elaboration:

http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2015/03/21/smerconish-stephen-a-smith-03212015.cnn

Stephen A. Smith acts as if Dems have fooled blacks and seems not to recognize that extreme Republican hostility to blacks has pigeonholed us. There simply is no alternative and it's not because black people are too foolish to bargain.

 

[Mr. Bizkits]

The voting rights act primarily concerned the restrictions on voting in the former confederate states. Poll taxes and so called literacy tests.

The misconception repeated by today's republicans is that republicans supported the voting rights at more than democrats.

The reality is that all southern members of the senate and congress of both parties, except one, Ralph Yarboroug, Democrat of Texas were anti voting rights act.

George Herbert Walker Bush, the first President Bush, was against it when he ran for Senator in Texas in 1964. He lost to Ralph Yarboroug, the only Democratic Senator in the south who strongly supported it. The only republican senator to exist in the south during that time, John tower of Texas voted against it.

Only one Democratic Senator in the North voted against it. Robert Byrd of West Virgina.

There were 5 republican senators in the north that voted against .

Robert Byrd later apologized profusely for his vote against the voting Rights act of 1964 as well as his membership in the KKK and became one of the biggest supporters and advocates of President Obama's campaign for president and one of his biggest supports during is last days as a senator and in fact was one of the deciding yea votes for Obamacare.

Not defending the democrats, but the facts are the facts.



source: The Grio

Great info. I read everything. I see your point and the facts. But I still standby my stance that voting for the Republicans would be moot

 

[IT IS WHAT IT IS]

So... he suggest we all vote for what most of us view as a fucked up regime, and deal with 4 years of that shit, just to prove a point...

Yeah... somebody needs to snatch a microphone from him until he gets help...

 

[Art Vandelay]

For anybody interested who misses it-- be it because this headline is more attractive, this is later bumped and the other thread is less active or whatever the case-- here is, IMO, a good (and much less desperate) way of thinking about alternatives for those who think the Democratic Party does not function as it should or needs pressure to adjust it's priorities.