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Showing Original Post only (View all)If a large group of blacks voted en masse for a black nationalist who preached hatred of whites [View all]
and, in so doing, helped to swing the election for a different candidate one way or another (since never in a million years would a black nationalist who preached hatred of whites garner enough votes to win anything), would white Democrats (or white Republicans for that matter) spend any serious time and effort "reaching out" to those black voters and tell their supporters they should be more sympathetic to their concerns and try harder to understand and embrace them?
Or would they say, "those people are crazy" and then do their damndest to generate enough votes from within their ranks and elsewhere to ensure that they could outvote the "crazies" the next time around?
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If a large group of blacks voted en masse for a black nationalist who preached hatred of whites [View all]
EffieBlack
Dec 2016
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You don't think they'd buy the "they're not racist-they just liked his economic message?" argument?
EffieBlack
Dec 2016
#5
old black people who lived through legalized segregation are treated horribly if they say anything
JI7
Dec 2016
#2
Why does it need to be about race in the first place? If someone is an asshole then call them on it
NoGoodNamesLeft
Dec 2016
#9
we are talking about people who voted for Trump and there are people who defend them if they are
JI7
Dec 2016
#10
Yes and there are many people on this forum with people they love who voted for Trump
NoGoodNamesLeft
Dec 2016
#14
they listened to Trump denigrate , demonize and slander people and VOTED TO MAKE HIM FUCKING
JI7
Dec 2016
#15
democrats failed them by supporting civil rights. explain why the fuck they didn't support feingold
JI7
Dec 2016
#19
Clinton won among the working class. She won among those for whom the top issue is the economy.
Garrett78
Dec 2016
#12
Why does it need to be about race? Come on, this is America, it's always about race
brush
Dec 2016
#13
I've never seen so many people be so racially divisive as I am seeing here
NoGoodNamesLeft
Dec 2016
#20
You're probably right. There isn't much sympathy for Trump voters or those who defend them here.
brush
Dec 2016
#22
lol, shows how much you know about racism and what poc deal with all the fucking time.
JI7
Dec 2016
#23
If black people talking about our experience with race makes you so angry you won't vote Democratic
EffieBlack
Dec 2016
#28
We all know the answer to that question. But some will ignore or obfuscate your point.
Garrett78
Dec 2016
#4
I might not like their choice but I would not stereotype all of those who voted for them
NoGoodNamesLeft
Dec 2016
#7
they voted for a candidate who ran an openly bigoted campaign . that's what his campaign was about
JI7
Dec 2016
#11
for most people it was about bigotry that's why they voted for a candidate who attacked
JI7
Dec 2016
#18
i know they are ok with bigoted attacks on minorities since they voted for the one who did that to
JI7
Dec 2016
#24
I would hope that they would try to understand and address the legitimate grievances
Crunchy Frog
Dec 2016
#32
Part of the problem Black Lives Matter has is that they protest some things that turn out
mythology
Dec 2016
#38
So if they're 5% incorrect they're 100% wrong? Isn't that a high bar set up for failure? tia
uponit7771
Dec 2016
#40
It would be a poor decision on their part if they did respond as you suggest.
Crunchy Frog
Dec 2016
#37
And then they got a russian intelligence service to flip the central tabulation machines to win...
UCmeNdc
Dec 2016
#42
I didn't say the candidate in my hypo was "expressly" black nationalist. I just said they WERE one
EffieBlack
Dec 2016
#45
So he's not a white supremacists until he explicitly express's such? Really?!?!
uponit7771
Dec 2016
#48
Anybody that liberals/conservatives would call black nationalist is probably someone I'd vote for.
DemocraticWing
Dec 2016
#52