Tariq is going hard pushing this #DontVote campaign
- Thread starter Sithlord Piff
- Start date
posterchild336
Superstar
does that mean that we should just say fuk it and not vote?
↓R↑LYB
I trained Sheng Long and Shonuff
It means we need use our vote as a tool. Look at this links:
How Groups Voted in 1976 - Roper Center
How Groups Voted in 1992 - Roper Center
2008 Presidential Election - Roper Center
The last 3 elections where a Democrat won the white house, the black vote was the swing vote. Had we not voted for them, they would not be in office. And even though we are the ones who CONSISTENTLY put these people in office, we get absolutely nothing in return.
It makes zero sense to vote for the Democrats when they have proven to not address any of the needs of black America. As a political strategy, we need to make it be known that we will not vote for the Democratic party until they give concessions SPECIFICALLY to black people. Once they lose the white house, please believe they'll get some act right with the quickness.
Deutsche Bank
Some Of My Partners Dope Fiends Ha
Complain about black disenfranchisement but discourage black participation in the political process, bre-
Wait...
Oh shyt...
That's how this nikka makes his money.
This c00n is brilliant.
He's broadening his consumer base.
Wait...
Oh shyt...
That's how this nikka makes his money.
This c00n is brilliant.
He's broadening his consumer base.
↓R↑LYB
I trained Sheng Long and Shonuff
It's the same reason why a number of African American men work in the fast food industry today. It's also not a coincidence.
Black workers embody the new low-wage economy
Complain about black disenfranchisement but discourage black participation in the political process, bre-
Wait...
Oh shyt...
That's how this nikka makes his money.
This c00n is brilliant.
He's broadening his consumer base.
You didn't even listen to the podcast did you
Tariq like his stans think like elementary kids.
When you vote in the Presidential elections, I am pretty sure you are voting in the local and regional elections on voting day.
So you leave the Presidential part blank? (:jagsfan
:laughing: I really have to laugh at this bullshyt.
Ronnie Lott
#49erGang
When you vote in the Presidential elections, I am pretty sure you are voting in the local and regional elections on voting day.
So you leave the Presidential part blank? (:jagsfan
:laughing: I really have to laugh at this bullshyt.
Yeah, I leave a lot of shyt blank all the time. We vote for shyt every year breh.
South Carolina Governors election was last year lol. The Mayor of my hometown election is next year. Hell, I'm going in there this year to vote for a new community center so I can walk to go shoot ball.
VertigoKnight
Veteran
It's a messy subject. Democrats somehow always, expect the black vote with no concessions to valid concerns. But to not vote?
fukked up laws get passed and usually they impact black americans especially, like voter ID laws. At some point you do have to be political. What is TN suggesting is the best way forward?
Meanwhile everyone else is buying their influence and getting shyt done for them.
fukked up laws get passed and usually they impact black americans especially, like voter ID laws. At some point you do have to be political. What is TN suggesting is the best way forward?
Meanwhile everyone else is buying their influence and getting shyt done for them.
We are way better than during Jim Crow. The economic numbers still need to improve, but to argue otherwise is simply not true.
The Devil's Advocate
Call me Dad
i never said would it do goodblack people voted in record numbers for Obama... i believe he had 97% of the black vote
That did us so much good
i said better or worse
you think we'd have been better off with president romney?
or president mccain and vp palin?
not voting isn't gonna get us shyt brehs... and it can't possibly gain us a damn thing
↓R↑LYB
I trained Sheng Long and Shonuff
WEB Du Bois on voting:
W.E.B. Dubois, I Won't Vote
Since I was twenty-one in 1889, I have in theory followed the voting plan strongly advocated by Sidney Lens in The Nation of August 4, i.e., voting for a third party even when its chances were hopeless, if the main parties were unsatisfactory; or, in absence of a third choice, voting for the lesser of two evils. My action, however, had to be limited by the candidates' attitude toward Negroes. Of my adult life, I have spent twenty-three years living and teaching in the South, where my voting choice was not asked. I was disfranchised by law or administration. In the North I lived in all thirty-two years, covering eight Presidential elections. In 1912 I wanted to support Theodore Roosevelt, but his Bull Moose convention dodged the Negro problem and I tried to help elect Wilson as a liberal Southerner. Under Wilson came the worst attempt at Jim Crow legislation and discrimination in civil service that we had experienced since the Civil War. In 1916 I took Hughes as the lesser of two evils. He promised Negroes nothing and kept his word. In 1920, I supported Harding because of his promise to liberate Haiti. In 1924, I voted for La Follette, although I knew he could not be elected. In 1928, Negroes faced absolute dilemma. Neither Hoover nor Smith wanted the Negro vote and both publicly insulted us. I voted for Norman Thomas and the Socialists, although the Socialists had attempted to Jim Crow Negro members in the South. In 1932 I voted for Franklin Roosevelt, since Hoover was unthinkable and Roosevelt's attitude toward workers most realistic. I was again in the South from 1934 until 1944. Technically I could vote, but the election in which I could vote was a farce. The real election was the White Primary.
Retired "for age" in 1944, I returned to the North and found a party to my liking. In 1948, I voted the Progressive ticket for Henry Wallace and in 1952 for Vincent Hallinan.
In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no "two evils" exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say. There is no third party. On the Presidential ballot in a few states (seventeen in 1952), a "Socialist" Party will appear. Few will hear its appeal because it will have almost no opportunity to take part in the campaign and explain its platform.
Negroes hope to muster 400,000 votes in 1956. Where will they cast them? What have the Republicans done to enforce the education decision of the Supreme Court? What they advertised as fair employment was exactly nothing, and Nixon was just the man to explain it. What has the Administration done to rescue Negro workers, the most impoverished group in the nation, half of whom receive less than half the median wage of the nation, while the nation sends billions abroad to protect oil investments and help employ slave labor in the Union of South Africa and the Rhodesias? Very well, and will the party of Talmadge, Eastland and Ellender do better than the Republicans if the Negroes return them to office?
I have no advice for others in this election. Are you voting Democratic? Well and good; all I ask is why? Are you voting for Eisenhower and his smooth team of bright ghost writers? Again, why? Will your helpless vote either way support or restore democracy to America?
Is the refusal to vote in this phony election a counsel of despair? No, it is dogged hope. It is hope that if twenty-five million voters refrain from voting in 1956 because of their own accord and not because of a sly wink from Khrushchev, this might make the American people ask how much longer this dumb farce can proceed without even a whimper of protest.
W.E.B. Dubois, I Won't Vote
Since I was twenty-one in 1889, I have in theory followed the voting plan strongly advocated by Sidney Lens in The Nation of August 4, i.e., voting for a third party even when its chances were hopeless, if the main parties were unsatisfactory; or, in absence of a third choice, voting for the lesser of two evils. My action, however, had to be limited by the candidates' attitude toward Negroes. Of my adult life, I have spent twenty-three years living and teaching in the South, where my voting choice was not asked. I was disfranchised by law or administration. In the North I lived in all thirty-two years, covering eight Presidential elections. In 1912 I wanted to support Theodore Roosevelt, but his Bull Moose convention dodged the Negro problem and I tried to help elect Wilson as a liberal Southerner. Under Wilson came the worst attempt at Jim Crow legislation and discrimination in civil service that we had experienced since the Civil War. In 1916 I took Hughes as the lesser of two evils. He promised Negroes nothing and kept his word. In 1920, I supported Harding because of his promise to liberate Haiti. In 1924, I voted for La Follette, although I knew he could not be elected. In 1928, Negroes faced absolute dilemma. Neither Hoover nor Smith wanted the Negro vote and both publicly insulted us. I voted for Norman Thomas and the Socialists, although the Socialists had attempted to Jim Crow Negro members in the South. In 1932 I voted for Franklin Roosevelt, since Hoover was unthinkable and Roosevelt's attitude toward workers most realistic. I was again in the South from 1934 until 1944. Technically I could vote, but the election in which I could vote was a farce. The real election was the White Primary.
Retired "for age" in 1944, I returned to the North and found a party to my liking. In 1948, I voted the Progressive ticket for Henry Wallace and in 1952 for Vincent Hallinan.
In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no "two evils" exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say. There is no third party. On the Presidential ballot in a few states (seventeen in 1952), a "Socialist" Party will appear. Few will hear its appeal because it will have almost no opportunity to take part in the campaign and explain its platform.
Negroes hope to muster 400,000 votes in 1956. Where will they cast them? What have the Republicans done to enforce the education decision of the Supreme Court? What they advertised as fair employment was exactly nothing, and Nixon was just the man to explain it. What has the Administration done to rescue Negro workers, the most impoverished group in the nation, half of whom receive less than half the median wage of the nation, while the nation sends billions abroad to protect oil investments and help employ slave labor in the Union of South Africa and the Rhodesias? Very well, and will the party of Talmadge, Eastland and Ellender do better than the Republicans if the Negroes return them to office?
I have no advice for others in this election. Are you voting Democratic? Well and good; all I ask is why? Are you voting for Eisenhower and his smooth team of bright ghost writers? Again, why? Will your helpless vote either way support or restore democracy to America?
Is the refusal to vote in this phony election a counsel of despair? No, it is dogged hope. It is hope that if twenty-five million voters refrain from voting in 1956 because of their own accord and not because of a sly wink from Khrushchev, this might make the American people ask how much longer this dumb farce can proceed without even a whimper of protest.
↓R↑LYB
I trained Sheng Long and Shonuff
Did WEB Dubois and Malcolm X think like elementary children?
yardman
Mad movements!
Do you know how the electoral college works?
Educate me.