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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (59025)	7/21/2009 7:57:19 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

I have no problem with black people voting for whatever they see serving their best interests as individuals. But being required to vote as a black block reeks of racism and ownership. Insisting that it is the democratic party obligation seems kind of like you are saying you own the black vote. Black people are attacked if they do not fall into that partisan line, as we saw with Colen Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Clarence Thomas, and most recently Harry Alford for whom you chose silence. " I will not stand for racism from anyone." Except maybe the good Dems like Barbara Boxer who was at the tip of the speer and behind all the attacks I just mentioned. "The black community has been voting over 90% democratic for 50 years! Because a persecuted people know EXACTLY who their friends and enemies are. Who they can trust and who they cannot trust." You. It is you who are proud of them, offer them opportunity, protect them, entitle them, avail them of jobs and public life, provide for them, give them the floor on which to speak. To vote otherwise would be to betray you and risk the kind of thing Rice has had to endure, bigotry.