To my fellow black Americans...

peilthetraveler · Apr 17, 2012

Tsing Tao · Apr 17, 2012

Too bad there aren't more african americans who think like that.

Scataphagos · Apr 17, 2012

Like Charles Barkley said, "Poor black people have been voting Democrat for 60 years and they are still poor."

siafx · Apr 17, 2012

He's awake. More WILL come...

peilthetraveler · Apr 17, 2012

If they all thought like him, then maybe MLK jrs dream would become a reality.

Maybe.

AK Forty Seven · Apr 17, 2012

The best thing African Americans can do is vote against the party who represents the south

Slavery -South

Confederate states of America-South

KKK-South

Jim Crow-South

There were 130 House votes against the civil rights act-97 from the South

There were 27 Senate votes against the civil rights act-25 from the South

gwb-trading · Apr 18, 2012

Quote from AK Forty Seven:

The best thing African Americans can do is vote against the party who represents the south

Slavery -South

Confederate states of America-South

KKK-South

Jim Crow-South

You fail to recognize that from 1866 to 1920, the Republican party dominated the South. During the period, the Republican party supported the rights of blacks to vote and be elected to office, supported policies to improve education for blacks, and opposed the KKK.

Brass · Apr 18, 2012

Quote from gwb-trading:

You fail to recognize that from 1866 to 1920, the Republican party dominated the South. During the period, the Republican party supported the rights of blacks to vote and be elected to office, supported policies to improve education for blacks, and opposed the KKK.

You are aware, of course, that the KKK is presently a Right Wing extremist group, right? And that the voting on the civil rights bill, which became an act in 1964, was correlated to geography. The South largely opposed it while everyone else voted in support of it. You may recall that the Republicans subsequently embraced the "Southern Strategy" which strategically exploited white resentment in the South:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

RCG Trader · Apr 18, 2012

Quote from Brass:

You are aware, of course, that the KKK is presently a Right Wing extremist group, right? And that the voting on the civil rights bill, which became an act in 1964, was correlated to geography. The South largely opposed it while everyone else voted in support of it. You may recall that the Republicans subsequently embraced the "Southern Strategy" which strategically exploited white resentment in the South:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

Of course they know it. Notice how his timeline stops at 1920. Nine years BEFORE the Great Depression.

How desperate is that?

CaptainObvious · Apr 18, 2012

The poor and uneducated are easily manipulated, whether they be black or white, republican or democrat. Both parties count on it.