'every black person in America vote Republican' said ESPN host Stephen A. Smith.
“Black folks in America are telling one party, 'We don’t give a damn about you,’” Smith said. “They’re telling the other party, ‘You’ve got our vote.’ Therefore, you have labeled yourself ‘disenfranchised’ because one party knows they’ve got you under their thumb, the other party knows they’ll never get you and nobody comes to address your interest[s].”For the last couple of days a hashtag #GOPHatesPoorPeople has been trending. It begs the question why would the GOP love a vote that is constantly and blindly one sided?
Smith compared voting with “shopping around” to let store owners know they have to cater to you to win your business.
“We don’t do that with politics, and then we blame white America for our disenfranchisement," he said.
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It's unbelievable how something so patently clear, for everyone to see, could be so elusive to the people in jeopardy.
Lying works... sad to say.
It's always been strange to me that Blacks would support the party of slavery, Jim Crowe, The KKK, and more recently the party that constantly tells them how incapable they are of being independent and self-sufficient, and how they can't prosper without white people coddling them like children, handing them free money, and giving them safety wheels to get through life. If anybody told me that about myself and my children based on the color of our skin, they would never get my support for anything, and I would work to make that party disappear, and punch them in the face on Fridays.
Who respects you more: the person who hands you a quarter based on your skin color, or the person who would prefer to ignore that minor difference and demands the same of you that they expect from themselves?
It's just as bizarre that most Blacks have such disdain for the party that was born and dedicated to freeing their ancestors from the scourge of slavery. It's like Stockholm syndrome on a massive scale.
It must be embarrassing for those Blacks who see through it. I'm not embarrassed for what other white people do, but I might be if I was always considered part of a "community" as if I had no independent mind at all.
Smith, from what little I've seen of him, strikes me as one of the most PC guys on ESPN (no mean feat), so, for him to say this, says there may be some hope, after all.
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