Is the AA community a non issue 4 the party?

[angee_is_mad]

That is the way I feel, especially after tonight. I strongly feel that the African American community is a nonissue for the democratic party, because they have bigger fish to fry. Yes I will say the N word.

The party is going after the NASCAR dad and feel that the AA have no where else to go.

[maggrwaggr]

1. re: your headline, I thought you meant Alcoholics Anonymous

seriously.

[POed_Ex_Repub]

2. Possibly a lesser issue in the GE (I think)

But probably a bigger one in the primary *Which is where we are now* while we still have many undecideds about.

[hellhathnofury]

3. In the primary it will matter because of the importance of SC and others.

I don't think it will be at the forefront of the GE.

It's still an issue though, it's just there truly are bigger fish (stopping PNAC, fixing the econ).

[BurtWorm]

4. I don't think it will be a nonissue even after the primaries.

And it will be a huuuuuge mistake if it is, because of what the Bushists did to disenfranchise African-Americans in 2000. The Democratic nominee had better go into African-American communities and talk voting rights, if nothing else. I don't believe that's the only issue on the table.

I want to defend Howard Dean, because he's gotten pummeled tonight for coming from a state that is 0.3% black. My understanding of his campaign is that it is not about NASCAR voters any more than it is about any other single group. It's about uniting, regardless of what your special interest is--and that's not to put a Republican spin on the term "special interest," which is a neutral term--to punish the Republicans for what they did in 1998, 2000, and since. I think Dean understands that people come from different places, and he doesn't want to exclude any of them. In fact he wants previously mutually exclusive groups, like African-Americans and southern whites, to come together out of mutual interest in improving the economy at all levels, creating jobs, getting everyone insured, making the tax system fairer, etc.