Concede Nothing to Bush : Black Consensus Remains Intact

[Laughing Mirror]

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.

And, truth be known, we had more white people on our side in this election than at any time in modern American history – just not enough. The Bush men brag that their figurehead won more votes than any president, ever. Yet more people also voted against Bush than any previous president. We who have never – and will never – win US-wide power on our own, were on Election Day at the vortex of the struggle against an enemy that makes the planet shiver....

When Black voters finally got to speak for themselves on November 2, Bush got 10 or 11 percent of the Black vote, respectively, according to Washington Post and CNN exit polls. The ultra-high profile presence of Condoleezza and Colin, the millions lavished on corrupt Rev. Greedygut preachers, the endless propaganda about a growing “new class” of Black conservatives, the disinformation from the New York Times and, yes, from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies – all this and more over four years had moved the Black electorate a mere one percent or (maybe) two into the Republican ranks....

African Americans are approaching that future guided by a Consensus on core issues that has so far remained largely impervious to outside manipulation – although it is subject to diversions and distractions such as the ridiculous debate on gays emanating from a gay-saturated Black church!

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

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. 90% of Blacks voted for Kerry!!!

79% of Jews voted for him too!!!

All minorities are on Kerry's side!

[BOSSHOG]

2. One noted Majority voted for Kerry in record numbers

THE EDUCATED

[hollywood926]

3. We here at DU know that, but are there any real numbers?

I would love to see a figure on that - it has to be high.

[BOSSHOG]

4. Check out

the following site - www.chrisevans3d.com/files/iq.htm

Read it and gloat. It breaks down the average state IQ and lists which states went for which candidates. No surprise, although a good thing to print, roll up and poke in the eye of a bush supporter. I must add that I live in Mississippi, lots of scrolling involved to get to my state. I'm so proud.

[ClassWarrior]

8. Oh don't get so full of yourselves!

No wonder the Radical Rightwing can paint us as latte liberals and intellectual snobs.

NGU.

[malletgirl02]

15. So being educated is a bad thing?

Please pray tell why?

[qanda]

5. Excellent, excellent article

Get back to work!!!!!! I will spread this far and wide.

:kick:

[qanda]

6. Kick

:kick:

Please read this and pass it on. Especially for us black DUers.

[ibegurpard]

7. Thank you, Black America

You are an inspiration to all of us.

[qanda]

9. kick

:kick:

[Laughing Mirror]

10. one more time ...

[Abelman]

11. Awesome

That is awesome.

[oasis]

18. kick

[Blaq Dem]

12. 10 to 11% is too HIGH...

Considering the fact that so many black votes weren't counted in the first place. 10% black support for Bush is just a fantasy. I think it was more like 1 to 2% (maybe less than that).

[Laughing Mirror]

17. You might be right

But just taking a look at votes that were indeed counted, a quick glance at results from Wards 7 & 8 in Washington, DC certainly point in the direction of your 1 or 2 percent.

Of about 90,000 registered voters in the mostly black neighboring Wards 7 and 8, only 3.78% in Ward 7 went to Bush, and 3.27% in Ward 8.

Precinct after precinct, from the 97th to the 117th, typically recorded votes in the 2 percent range. At precinct 100, for example, which has 1,753 registered voters, only 21 came out to vote for Bush. At precinct 117, an astounding number of 12 Bush supporters (1.66%) made it over to Turner Elementary School to cast their votes.

I only looked at figures from these precincts because they are old family neighborhoods that I know intimately, but it would be interesting to see results from other places, such as yours Blaq Dem.

[RevCheesehead]

13. Did anyone see the forum of Black voters on C-SPAN 2?

Some very interesting statistics were presented.

I'm pretty beat (I will NEVER be "bushed" again!), but what I remember was statistics on percentage of black voters in Ohio and Florida. The guy compared it to figures in 2000, and said if you believe the exit polls, then blacks would have had to vote republican by anywhere from 10 - 16%, compared to the 8% in 2000. The guy mentioned something about abortion and moral issues, but said that even considering that possibility, the numbers seemed suspiciously high. Maybe the C-SPAN website has more info.

[RevCheesehead]

14. It's on NOW (if anyone's awake)

Nothing on their website yet, but will post when it appears.

[Laughing Mirror]

16. Thanks. Link on page 2 of the Video Archives

C-Span archives

[Sara Beverley]

19. My mother and father marched on Wash. with King. I am so proud to be

one of their off-spring. I think we owe a lot to the black cause as history points out. Had it not been for blacks wanting to learn to read and write and few of our white ancestors helping them, there would be no "free public school system" in America. It would have remained and privilege of the wealthy land owners and their children.
I respect and admire their true morality, tenacity, loyalty, and vision. They remain the most maligned and still the most perceptive voting block in our nation.