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Politics and Blacks

BJ168 Wrote: Aug 14, 2009 12:17 AM

I read your article with interest. I just have to say that our society has deteriorated so much that I'm ashamed to be living here now. I have no political figures who I can support, no matter their color or ethnic background. I just don't think that we can point our fingers at any one "group". Our political "leaders" are not representing us, no matter who we are unless we're also corrupt and receiving favors (and even some of those aren't getting what they thought they'd receive). President Obama won an election because too many people hoped for something beyond their wildest dreams, and that's exactly what they got. Why can't we listen to our inner selves and our grandparents' good advice, and trust in God and our own common sense,...

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Politics and Blacks

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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