Re: Re: Re: Re: Black Republican Speaks Out !!!!!
Originally posted by jelli
Your first example really doesn't show me how the black vote is taken for granted by democrats. Now your second example I have a few question:
where you say Another example, every democratic congressman from Mississippi solicited black political consulting firms and their infrastructures to conduct GOTV in the black communities to beat other white dems during the democratic primaries the every democrat you speak were they black or white? and secondly because they are democratic incumbants, and statistics show blacks in Mississippi almost always overwhelmingly vote for democratic incumbantsI would wager that the same would hold true of an incumbant rebulican be they white or black.
I will give you that blacks don't research their candidates issues extensively before they cote democrat. But I am not ready to do away with all social programs, afirmative action. I honestly don't believe that both parties solict blacks votes for the purposes of wining an election and then drop shortly there after.
To respond by name of the Congressmen I am talking about:
(DEMOCRATS)
Gene Taylor- U.S. House of Representatives (5th District) - White Democrat.....Hired Black Consultants for his GOTV to get initally elected....every re-election since 1989 has hired white firms to sway republican votes in pred. white areas.
Ronnie Shows - U.S. House of Representatives (4th District) - White Democrat....Hired Black Consultants for his GOTV to get initally elected....only one re-election since 1999 has hired white firms to sway republican votes in pred. white areas.
Bennie Thompson - U.S. House of Representatives (2nd District) - Black Democrat.....NAACP conducted his GOTV....every re-election since 1993 has been conducted by black firms.
(REPUBLICANS)
Roger Wicker - U.S. House of Representatives (1st District) - White Republican....Hired Black Consultants for his GOTV to get initally elected.....has hired 1 black firm to to attempt to get a small percentage of black votes.
Charles Pickering - U.S. House of Representatives (3rd District) - White Republican....Hired Black Consultants for his GOTV to get initally elected.....has hired 1 black firm to to attempt to get a small percentage of black votes.
Both Senators from Mississippi are Republicans: Trent Lott and Thad Cochran, and have simular infrastructures via consulting firms as the other Republicans do in order for their GOTV.
To answer your questions in regards to our votes being taken for granted in this state....Mississippi has NEVER had a BLACK statewide elected official since John R. Lynch (the street JSU is on is named after him) and Hiram Revels during reconstruction (they were both Republicans by the way). But when blacks run state wide white democrats skip pressing the lever for black candidates selecting instead to vote for "no one" in that positon instead of voting for a black candidate....If, that is not being taken for granted I don't know what is.
We have partisan elections in Mississippi, which means you have to vote straight DEMOCRAT or straight REPUBLICAN all the way down the ticket. As a matter of fact the only statewide elected Republicans we have in this state got elected because white democrats chose not to vote for black democrats.
By teh way, I voted democrat in that election because Willie Richardson, a JSU alum, I felt was the best candidate for Highway Commissioner.