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Politics and Blacks

BIGbelly Wrote: Aug 13, 2009 2:34 AM
Professor Williams you continue to eclipse your previous work, this whole Blacks in politics thing can be sumed up in two words- "Marion Barry".
He's done so well for Washington D.C. all their problems are solved, and if, and I do mean a minute if, D.C. has any pressing problems it's not his fault it's because of "racism".
Just look at him, he's Black, and they don't like to see a successful Black man running a "successful" city.
So he had some narcotic problems- per se, he was set up, but he made sure the brothers got paid and that's the other reason "they" don't like him.
This my friends is just some of the idiotic sentiment echoed in the Black Community when talking about the escapades of Mr. Barry.
The word "real"...

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...

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