Black Consensus Remains Intact - Concede Nothing to Bush

[baby_bear]

http://www.blackcommentator.com/112/112_cover_election.html


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The worst possible outcome of Tuesday’s election would have been that George Bush won with the help of a divided Black electorate. Instead, African Americans reaffirmed the vitality of the Black Political Consensus – our eyes firmly fixed on the prize: peace, jobs and justice. Despite faith-based blandishments to the sell-out branch of the Black clergy, massive deployment of the GOP’s gay wedge issue and, most hurtfully, the Kerry team’s initial determination to render African Americans invisible and mute in the campaign, Blacks stood like a rock in defense of their own interests. Undeterred by disinformation that insanely (or maybe just inanely) predicted a doubling of Black support for Bush, African Americans placed their numbers and sheer will in the path of the Bush II juggernaut. It rolled over us, by fair means and foul, but our Consensus – the impermeable historical glue that makes African Americans unique in the Diaspora – remained intact.
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At Harvard, Dr. Dawson reports that “students don’t understand how Kerry could concede before all the votes, particularly Black votes, were counted. He owes those people, who stood for hours in line and were asked for multiple identifications. We have another bounced check.” And what of the provisional ballots in Ohio, which Democrats at one time numbered at 250,000? What about all the federally-mandated provisional ballots in each of the 50 states. Are these all to be swept under the rug to avoid what Kerry calls “a protracted legal process?” Once again, reconciliation between the rich and white trumps justice for Blacks every time.

In Florida, the computer-generated Bush-heavy election returns that so dramatically clashed with earlier Kerry-heavy human exit polls are now explained away as the result of the stealth invasion of Karl Rove’s church-based mass voter movement – a half-million strong evangelical invasion force that most hard-wired Republican pundits did not even know existed. As “Ghosts of Florida” author Tom Grayman III writes, “by no method has it been determined that the polling was incorrect and the voting equipment was not.”

On Washington-based XM-Radio, talk show host Mark Thompson remarked that the “third eye” of every Black person in America was wide open, blinking in disbelief as Kerry Democrats and Bush Republicans rearrange the facts about November 2, 2004. The last thing America needs is unity with thieves, Pirates and punks. The nation and the world need peace, jobs and justice. Let’s get back to work.

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This is just a bit of the article. The observation about the exit polling being correct is what I have been saying for four years about them in 2000, yet even now virtually all the media outlets lament the failings of exit polling rather than recognizing that it's the "RESULTS" (ahem) that incorrectly reveal the choice of the electorate, not the exit polls.

s_m

[Lindsay]

1. Thanks for posting this.

An excellent article, well worth reading.

[baby_bear]

2. You are most welcome

This is a good weekly to read on a regular basis. I always am reminded of a somewhat different perspective than my own and I'm better off for it.

s_m