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President Barack Obama won an unprecedented 96 percent of the black vote. That's not much of a news story since blacks typically give their votes to the Democratic candidate. Blacks are probably the most politically loyal people in the nation and it is almost taken as gospel, at least among civil rights organizations and black and white liberals, that the only way black people can make socioeconomic progress is through the politics of race and special government programs. However, such a vision can be subjected to empirical evidence.
In 1940, when blacks were politically impotent, their poverty rate was...
Politics and Blacks
Yes and more in absolute numbers, but as a percentage of the population? Blacks far outnumber any other group and adjusted for percentages in the population is the more accurate number.
"Good grief, it has only been since the 1960s that the fight to be treated like a human being in America was fought by Martin Luther King who had a dream and died for his cause and his dream by assassaination."
The struggle for civil rights pre-dates MLK and the 1960s.
"It is difficult for anyone who isn't Black or ethnic to understand the pain and suffering of being oppressed, hated, suppressed, refused jobs, refused to attend safe and quality schools; ordered to the back of the bus...