The ESPN host and analyst believes every black person in America should vote Republican one time. Not one time in their life time, but
all during the same election. He believes this would send a message to both parties that our issues cannot be taken from granted, our votes matter and our issues must be dealt with as those of the Jews, Irish and white people in general.
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From what I’ve read, Barry Goldwater is going against Lyndon B. Johnson. He’s your Republican candidate; he is completely against the civil rights movement. Lyndon B. Johnson was in favor of it — civil rights legislation. What happens is, he wins office, Barry Goldwater loses office, but there was a Senate, a Republican Senate, that pushed the votes to the president’s desk. It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation — the southern Dixiecrats. So because President Lyndon B. Johnson was a Democrat, black America assumed the Democrats were for it.
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Black folks in America are telling one party, “We don’t give a damn about you.” 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.
Smith went on to say when someone is shopping for a car or a house, you don’t just look at one. We need to do the same with our politics in the black community.
Smith said:
“We don’t do that with politics,” he lamented, “and then we blame white America for our disenfranchisement.”
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Originally Posted by Harry Beanbag
