The chart below shows the voting breakdown for the 2006 elections – by ethnicity.
TOTAL__________________Democrat__________Republican
White (79%)________________47%_______________51%
African-American (10%)_____89%_______________10%
Latino (8%)________________69%_______________30%
Asian (2%)_________________62%_______________37%
Other (2%)_________________55%_______________42%
Are Black folks truly as one-dimensional a race of people as these numbers imply? I will never accept that.
If it is true (and I believe it is) that we are lagging far behind other races regarding education, finances, business, exposure to the arts, travel, planning for the future, etc. -- at least part of the reason may be found in these numbers.
If it is true (and I know it is) that our communities are plagued with high crime rates and way too many of our men are in prison -- maybe we should think about the significance of these numbers.
We are marching through the political process in one big, robotic clump. We are thinking, doing, saying and responding to our issues as if with simply one voice.
Perhaps if we (Black folks) allow a little political diversity within our race we could collectively come up with some solutions.
- Kee
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BUT, be cognizant that the universe of those voters excluded the disenfranchised due to felonies, and the disaffcted, due to social and economic anomie. They constitute the runaways fromthe cultural and political neo-plantation system.
To your point, it does reflect the domestication of the elligible electorate inthe Duopoly of oligarchs.
Until there is a cultural rennaisance of thought as profound as the Harlem Renaissance, in which our people see a orld-wide solidarity with olks under seige and ethnic cleansing around the world they will continue to live in this Alice in wonderland continuum in which only ever decreasing returns in the investment of their bourgeois blackness continues.
Bugsy
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