Comments by "freein2339" (@freein2339) on "Fox News"
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Wayne Bertsch, a veteran GOP consultant told the Tampa Bay Times that
targeting Democrats was always the goal in curbing early voting. "In the
races I was involved in in 2008, when we started seeing the increase of
turnout and the turnout operations that the Democrats were doing in
early voting, it certainly sent a chill down our spines."
Another
tactic, favored in Texas and Florida, is to target nonprofit groups that
conduct voter-registration drives (the League of Women Voters, the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). This is
achieved by imposing onerous new training, registration and/or liability
burdens on the groups' volunteers. The proportion of African-American
and Latino voters who register through third-party drives is about twice
what it is for whites.
Republican campaign consultant Scott Tranter
"A lot of us are campaign officials -- or campaign professionals -- and
we want to do everything we can to help our side. Sometimes we think
that's voter ID, sometimes we think that's longer lines -- whatever it
may be," Tranter said with a laugh.
Franklin County (Columbus) GOP
Chair Doug Preisse.. "I guess I really actually feel we shouldn't
contort the voting process to accommodate the urban—read
African-American—voter-turnout machine." Preisse is not some rogue
operative but the chairman of the Republican Party in Ohio's
second-largest county and a close adviser to Ohio Governor John Kasich.
Pa House majority leader Mike Turzai, said his state's voter ID law "is
gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania,"
U.S.
District Judge Stephen J. Murphy ordered Michigan election officials to
immediately halt and attempt to rectify one of the two practices --
canceling voter registrations for those whose voter identification card
is returned as undeliverable. Murphy ordered the state to remove the
"rejected" marking in the qualified voter file for all persons whose
original voter ID cards have been returned to the state as undeliverable
since Jan. 1, 2006. About 1,500 people have been removed from the voter
list in that manner this year, according to evidence presented in the
case.
Voter hours were extended in white distrcits of Ohio while voting hours were cut in the Black districts....
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In September 2014, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp expressed concern
that too many minority voters were registering to vote for the November
midterms and so he found it necessary to subpoena the records of at
least one group working to register more Black and Latino voters.
Now he has gone and "lost" 40,000 voter registration forms handed in by one group.
The Root:
According
to an Al-Jazeera report, it’s a sentiment that the staffers at Third
Sector Development are expressing. The nonprofit organization was on a
mission to register as many black and Hispanic people in the state of
Georgia as possible so that voter turnout for the upcoming midterm
elections in November would be high. And they were successful at it,
until they received word that about half of the applications they
submitted for processing have gone missing in action.
“Over the
last few months, the group submitted some 80,000 voter-registration
forms to the Georgia secretary of state’s office—but as of last week,
about half those new registrants, more than 40,000 Georgians, were still
not listed on preliminary voter rolls. And there is no public record of
those 40,000-plus applications, according to state Rep. Stacey Adams, a
Democrat,” Al-Jazeera explained.
But Secretary Kemp says, hey, we're not doing anything differently. Sure they're not.
Georgia
Secretary of State Brain Kemp explained that his office is not doing
anything differently from how it usually processes applications. But
some people aren’t buying his story, seeing as how he’s a Republican,
and black and Hispanic people tend to vote for Democrats.
Georgia
Republicans have been raising eyebrows for some time now with regard to
early voting and voter-ID issues. One state Republican didn’t like how
black and Hispanic voters had easy access to early-voting opportunities.
They
cut early voting, they've got horrible Voter ID laws, and now the
Secretary of State has 40,000 less voter registration forms than were
submitted. Jim Crow is alive and well in Georgia and surrounds, isn't
it?
Of course there are many other incidents of GOP voter suppression....that's why the GOP will not get support from Black voters....too much racism...
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+Supersmashist Why would Liberals be afriad of Black conservatives....Black conservative can't even get mire themn 2-3 Blacks in the GOP congress...The only thing Black conservatives are good for is being anti-Black...At least that's what mosr Black conservatives do....not "Brotheres' like Colin Powell..or this brother....
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"The environment inside the Republican
Party today is a treacherous moral swamp for African-Americans. No black
conservative figure has yet managed to remain in a position of influence inside
the GOP while speaking honestly about racial questions.
When an NAACP chairman derided
Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott recently as a “ventriloquist’s dummy”
he touched a deep nerve. Going all the way back to Reconstruction, black
conservatives have fought to justify their emphasis on economic progress against
those who sought more direct resistance to injustice.
That is a fine line to walk and it
has never been easy. When black leaders allow themselves be used as tokens,
they will deserve the suspicion they retain in the black community no matter
what other sincere goals or opinions they may hold. This is an unfair dilemma
that white political figures seldom face, but history has made it unavoidable.
Black leaders cannot expect to be
taken seriously so long as they quietly acquiesce to rhetoric and policies openly
hostile to minority communities. For black conservatives, the price of
credibility is courage.
Standing in front of a white audience
and validating their racist assumptions is a fast track to popularity and
political opportunity. Few things thrill a white nationalist more than a black
man who agrees with him. Every racist has ‘lots of black friends’ and being one
of those black friends offers benefits.
With the GOP in thrall to an ugly
Neo-Confederate resurgence, the 2012 Republican Convention featured its lowest
percentage of black delegates in modern history. Interestingly, while there
were only 46 black delegates, the convention featured eight minority speakers
on the main stage alone. Being a black Republican willing to toe the line
without question is an outstanding way to gain access to a platform.
It is entirely reasonable to expect
that Sen. Scott’s position as a Senator was paid for by his willingness to be
used. He has done nothing yet in his career that would be inconsistent with
that characterization. Recite the party’s talking points and he gets to be a
Senator. Acknowledge the existence of racism in any credible matter and he will
be escorted to the exit, where he will be greeted by Colin Powell and Michael
Steele.
One of the GOP’s other black friends,
former Rep. Allen West, learned that lesson the hard way when he accidentally
said something honest about the Trayvon Martin case. He quickly backed down,
explained that Martin had it coming because he wasn’t a “respectful young man.”
West recognized the value of being a “respectful young man” in the GOP and now
he has a nice gig with Fox News.
This dilemma complicates the appeal
of black conservatives, making it extremely difficult to communicate a
credible, persuasive message without losing access to the political process. To
speak honestly about race means being ostracized from the Republican Party. To
speak honestly about the role of values and culture in the plight of the black
community means being ostracized from the Democratic Party. Black conservatives
can accept a humiliatingly subservient role in a Republican Party that wants
them to perform like circus animals or sit outside the process, alienated and
disempowered.
Not everyone in the black community
sees this dilemma. In particular, many black religious fundamentalists do not
perceive this problem at all. It is from their ranks that figures like Tim
Scott and former Rep. Allen West have emerged. If you believe in a
6000-year-old universe it isn’t so hard to believe that Obama is a Socialist
Anti-Christ or that he cheered the attack on the American Consulate in
Benghazi.
Black religious fundamentalists feel
comfortable walking shoulder to shoulder with Tea Party activists bent on
destroying minority voting rights and ending “income redistribution” to black
urban moochers in hoodies. They are marching with the far-right far-white in
pursuit of higher, apocalyptic goals. If gay marriage is the single greatest
threat to civilization then perhaps an alignment with the GOP’s farthest
ideological fringe makes sense.
For non-white conservatives with
their feet planted firmly in the reality-based community the rhetoric being
spewed by Republicans in recent years is more than a little frightening. Some
hard-right black evangelicals may have made peace with the Tea Party, but their
numbers are very small. That’s why most if not all of the African-Americans at
your local Tea Party rally will be speaking onstage.
Whether he likes it or not, Sen.
Scott is becoming a national mascot for the efforts of Tea Party Republicans to
whitewash the movement’s glaring racism. The dilemma he faces may be unique to
black political figures, but as the Republican Party becomes more and more an
engine for white nationalism, that burden spreads more broadly to all conservatives,
regardless of race.
The same credibility problem faced by
black conservatives is becoming a dangerous threat to conservatism at large. If
Sen. Scott is a token set up to distract us all from the GOP’s racism, then
what is Karl Rove? At what point should all conservatives face the same duty to
speak about racism that we justly place on Sen. Scott’s shoulders?
If conservatism is going to survive,
conservatives should all take a close look at the dilemma faced by Sen. Scott.
The movement badly needs an update to avoid atrophying into a tool of racial
and political anachronisms. Conservatism will not survive if it fails to
represent something more compelling than the stubborn preservation of white
cultural supremacy. A handful of well-placed black friends may obscure the
party’s problems, but they are not going to save conservatism from
itself."
Chris Ladd - a Black republican
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+Whitney Pyant....Over 90% of white peope are killed by white people and they are not killed by racist Black cops....Now the question seem to not want to answer is do you have a problem with unarmed Black people killed by racist white cops.....By the way , I don't deny any problems but you seem to deny what white racist cops are doing....Here's a sample of what Black cops deal with...
New dashcam footage is backing up the claims of four African-American
parole officers who were violently detained by local upstate
New York police officers.
The police in the City of Ramapo , NY claim that they did nothing wrong in how they handled the incident.
But the parole officers say differently. Mario Alexandre, Sheila Penister,
Annette Thomas-Prince, and Samuel Washington just filed a lawsuit against the city. They say that they were terrified and feared for their lives after officer pulled them over and held them at gun point, with assault rifles
pointed at them.
The footage from the dashcam video, obtained by CNN, shows a police
cruiser swerve to the wrong side of the road to get to the
vehicle where the four African American officers were sitting.One officer pulls a gun on the four plaintiffs. Another blocks traffic, using his SUV.
One of the four emerges from the car with his hands up, even though he had done nothing wrong.Five police officers were present, including ones aiming assault rifles.
Mario Alexandre explains that he was “violently assaulted” when pulled from the
vehicle, and “slammed against the car.”
Police claim they were in the right, however, because of a 911 call on the
four officers, “concerned about four individuals observed in bulletproof vests in an unmarked vehicle.”
Those were in fact department-issued bulletproof vests. They also had gold badges around their neck: a common image of officer that is familiar to virtually everyone.
The officers even had an official sign placed on the dashboard that read:
“State of New York – Executive Department – Division of Parole.”That apparently wasn’t enough to identify them as police officers to the
racist cops who pulled them over.The racist officers involved in the incident were: Lt. Robert Lancia, Capt.,
Sgt. Margaret Sammarone, Thomas Cokely, and Suffern Sgt. Edward Dolan, according to The Journal News…Now I don't know what town you live in but am sure you can find some activists that are actually doing something in the community instead of whining about it....
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+Whitney Pyant "We" are not in charge of the racist court system and "we" are not placed in grand Jurys that can convict racist cops..."We" do not move a trial to a "friendly lily white area"...And I;m not blaming whites for all our problems but when so many unarmed Black people are killed by racist white cops then yes it is a problem....This is what some Black cops say about your lovely and innocent racist cops....Reuters interviewed 25 African American male officers on the NYPD, 15 of whom are retired and 10 of whom are still serving. All but one said that, when off duty and out of uniform, they had been victims of racial profiling, which refers to using race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed a crime. The officers said this included being pulled over for no reason, having their heads slammed against their cars, getting guns brandished in their faces, being thrown into prison vans and experiencing stop and frisks while shopping. The majority of the officers said they had been pulled over multiple times while driving. Five had had guns pulled on them.Desmond Blaize, who retired two years ago as a sergeant in the 41st Precinct in the Bronx, said he once got stopped while taking a jog through Brooklyn’s upmarket Prospect Park. "I had my ID on me so it didn’t escalate," said Blaize, who has sued the department alleging he was racially harassed on the job. "But what’s suspicious about a jogger? In jogging clothes?"Blacks made up 73 percent of the shooting perpetrators in New York in 2011 and were 23 percent of the population.A number of academics believe those statistics are potentially skewed because police over-focus on black communities, while ignoring crime in other areas. They also note that being stopped as a suspect does not automatically equate to criminality. Nearly 90 percent of blacks stopped by the NYPD, for example, are found not to be engaged in any crime. The black officers interviewed said they had been racially profiled by white officers exclusively, and about one third said they made some form of complaint to a supervisor. All but one said their supervisors either dismissed the complaints or retaliated against them by denying them overtime, choice assignments, or promotions. The remaining officers who made no complaints said they refrained from doing so either because they feared retribution or because they saw racial profiling as part of the system.Here's a question for you...Why don't we hear about Black cops running killing unarmed citizens...of any color...????
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+Shazbotacus What law did Tamir Rice break....what law did Oscar Grant break , what law did Micheal Brown break , what law did Trayvon Martin break , what law did Jonathan Ferrell break , what law did Runain Brisbon break , what law did Akai Gurley break , what law did Ezel Ford , what law did John Crawford break , what law did Eric Garner break , what law did Yvette Smith break , what law did Jorban Baker break , What law did Carlos Alcis break , what law did Kimani Gray break , what law did Reynaldo Cuevas break , what law did Amandu Diallo break , what law did Kendrec McDade break , what law did Rekia Boyd break...???...You stupid racist nazis always you are so fucking wonderful and do nothing wrong..It's useless assholes like you that keep hatred and racism alive..AND Black cops also complain about white racist cops...? "No snitching" has nothing to do with these racist cops killing unarmed innocent Black people...fucking nazi
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