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  Blacks and Voting

  by Mecurious? in

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  okay, this is not meant to inflame or cause another race debate.

  but something here is amiss.

  why aren't more blacks getting out and registering to vote?

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  Blacks and Voting

  by Mecurious? in

  1. social
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  okay, this is not meant to inflame or cause another race debate.

  but something here is amiss.

  why aren't more blacks getting out and registering to vote?

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  Better guess again buddy before you peg me as someone who votes Republican all the time. But why bother explaining this to you after reading your dumbass assumptions about me. ANyway, if you were to look at the politics here in Chicago almost nothing has changed for 40 years!!! Nothing! The only thing that has changed is that the city counsel use to be 80% white but now it's 80% black but the rich areas still have the best schools and the poor areas have the worst schools. I know this. I went to college with guys who I became friends with and they told me about the texts books they had to use that were 10 years out of date and were missing half the pages. They told me about entire schools not even having one computer while the high school I went to (back in the mid 80's) had an entire lab full of them. How do you fix this? Let me give you an example. Instead of funding schools with local property taxes (which gives the rich areas much more money) get rid of this and pass a state wide income tax. Credit each student with an fixed dollar amount no matter where they go to school. Bam! Instantly schools in rich areas and poor areas would be more equal. I don't see any leaders (black or white) pushing this. Why not? Because they've "made it" and they want their kids going to good schools. I'm just tired of seeing people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpon leeching off of people they're supposedly helping.

  I never made the assertion that you vote republican all the time. It was you who asked a question concerning the voting patterns of Blacks. I just offered my opinion on why Blacks tend to vote the way they do. All the rest of what you mentioned is probably true, and I'm glad you've taken the opportunity to get it all of your chest, but I fail to see what it has to do with the subject at hand.

  So please tell me if MLK's vision was that some 35 years later 50 percent of blacks do not graduate high school and murder being the number one killer of young, black males. Something's not working but no one is doing anything about it. Here in Chicago civil rights leaders are a joke. Do a Google search on "Jesse the king of beers Jackson" and see what you find. It's a dam joke. You're trying to peg me as some right-wing neo-nazi who wants to cut welfare. I'm not at all saying that. I'm just saying if I were a black american looking at so-called "leaders" in the black community I'd say "what the f*ck?" If you want to talk about reducing government hadouts, start with white farmers here in the midwest and corporate america.

  Nah, I don't think MLK's vision of life in America for Black people contained what you allude to here. However, when you imply that he believed some of the pull yourself up by your own bootstrap bs that right-wingers peddle, then I think you don't know as much about the man and his vision that you think. Don't you know that right-wingers often butcher the words of men like MLK watchtower style to misrepresent his true thoughts and to advance their own bigoted thinking?
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  Blacks and Voting

  by Mecurious? in

  1. social
  2. current

  okay, this is not meant to inflame or cause another race debate.

  but something here is amiss.

  why aren't more blacks getting out and registering to vote?

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  Almost sounds like slavery when certain leaders can take for granted that a group of people will vote for them no matter what.

  I guess you can apply that kind of "logic" to right-wingers or just plain ol conservatives who vote Republican all the time.

  What happened to people like MLK and the message of self-reliance?

  It's clear from this statement that all you know about MLK is what see during commercials on the tube every February.

  As far as the rest of your spiel is concerned it's clear the question you asked was rhetorical. I'm sorry I wasted my time answering it for you.
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  Blacks and Voting

  by Mecurious? in

  1. social
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  okay, this is not meant to inflame or cause another race debate.

  but something here is amiss.

  why aren't more blacks getting out and registering to vote?

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  I think it's because of the Republican Party's embracing those with racist ideolgies in the South after the discord during the civil rights movement in the 60's. Those old southern segregationsits were largely democrats, who felt the elites in the party betrayed them by forcing de-segregation upon their communities. The Republicans saw this discontent as a chance to get a foothold in the South. If not locally then at least they could count on those votes nationally. IMO, its no coincidence that Ronald Reagan started his campaign for President in the same small Mississippi community where four civil rights workers were murdered.
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  Blacks and Voting

  by Mecurious? in

  1. social
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  okay, this is not meant to inflame or cause another race debate.

  but something here is amiss.

  why aren't more blacks getting out and registering to vote?

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  bigboi

  Just about everyone I know black or white is gonna vote this election. That whole myth that the Black vote doesn't help nationally needs to be debunked, imo. Remember that Gore actually won the popular vote by half a million votes in the last election. It was the fiasco in Florida and more importantly, the activism of right-wing conservative judges on the Supreme Court that cost him the White House. It was a narrow margin of 500 or so votes that did him in. If the number of Black voters in the state that were disenfranchised were allowed to vote Gore would have won Florida handily.
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  A THORN IN HIS ASS?

  by Mecurious? in

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  i have a question about the apostle paul.

  in 2cor 12:7 he talks about a thorn in his flesh.

  i have never been able to get a good answer on this.

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  I've also heard that he might have been gay.

  That's what I always thought it was.
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  Suicide.... how do you view people who "attempt" it?

  by outbutnotdown in

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  anybody who has read my other recent posts...... don't worry, this is absolutely not about me feeling that way... i'm very happy, thanks..... .

  my roommate, however, had a friend who committed suicide a couple of weeks ago and she just broke up with her boyfriend and he was saying things similar to what the guy who committed suicide awhile back was saying just before he took his life.

  it is freaking her out.

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  On the first of the month my gf's baby brother took his own life at the age of 21. The last few years of his lifge were rough. Just in the past year alone he had 2 stints in jail, ws kicked out of 2 rehab programs and overdosed on heroin. He'd mentioned joining the Marines and saw the possiblity of being killed in action as "not so bad". Still I never thought he would kill himself. I think most fo his family thought life would end tragically for him, just never this way. One really bad morning was all he needed to just end it all. It's a shame because he had so much life still ahead of him, even if he did reach rock-bottom. It's just a real sad stituation all around.
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  Who are the Holy Ones? The 2nd Coming of Christ

  by Brownboy in

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  on november 2nd in the year 1917, the jewish people were acknowledged the right to reconstitute their national home in palestine under the balfour declaration, which was supported by the league of nations.. .

  on may 15, 1947 the united nations assembly established the united nations special committe on palestine (unscop).. .

  on may 14, 1948 israel gained its independance and became a jewish state in palestine called "medinal israel" (the state of israel).

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  Babylon the Great was once in a relationship with God, but is no longer.

  How do you come to that conclusion?
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  Louisiana Quarter

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  That artwork is stunning!
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  Why West is losing

  by William Penwell in

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  a new book i thought some would be interested in reading it.

  sun, september 12, 2004 .

  why west is losing by eric margolis -- contributing foreign editor.

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  What has/did Iraq offer besides giving money to the families of suicide bombers????

  I think if left to it's own devices, the whole Iraqi policy would have been to force a confrontation with Israel. He didn't lob missles at em during the first war just cuz. Sure, it's speculation, but the Arab governments over there were all too willing to get rid of Saddam. They haven't co-operated as swimmingly with us now as they did then. Despite the murder of 3,000 Americans in a day. Something just don't sit right with me about that.