“Always lavishly praise the dog when it does a good job and you are satisfied. Ignore the dog if it doesn’t follow your directions. Be patient, there is a reason why dogs are not rocket scientists for NASA. Don’t expect this training to have immediate results. Training must be maintained and re-enforced.” (source)
Last week I mentioned a story that showed how the Obama campaign funneled money to an organization that has repeatedly been caught engaging in voter fraud all across the country. If that alone wasn’t bad enough, many of these cases took place in mostly low-income Black and Hispanic communities. What should have resulted in a noticeable rebuke from supporters who claim to want to see a CHANGE in how politics is done in this country went largely unnoticed. Voter fraud in mostly Black counties in Alabama has been an ongoing issue for years–under Black leadership. Check out this 3 minute NPR piece covering the issue. According to the story, Black folks were getting paid cash in exchange of their ballot.
Around the same time last week, McCain’s gaffe over not knowing how many homes he owned was immediately pounced on by the Obama campaign. Both commentators in mainstream media and much of the Black blogosphere followed right in step with Obama’s response to McCain’s gaffe. The voter fraud story went largely unnoticed by both groups.
For decades, we have fought for the right to not only participate in the voting process, but the guarantee that one man equaled one vote. Does our longing to see a Black man sit in one of the most powerful seats in the world come with the price tag “By any means necessary”?
I don’t care what side of the political spectrum you consider your home. When Black men are wrongfully imprisoned for crimes they did not commit, Black Republicans/conservatives should use their resources to point to the flaws in our system that continuously allows this to happen. When the ballot box in poor Black communities has become tainted with fake votes, Black Democrats/liberals cannot look the other way simply because those votes oftentimes benefit the Democratic party.
Both sides have to do a much better job in not allowing partisan politics to temper our responses to the needs within our own culture.
At What Point Do We Stop Pulling The Sled?
August 25, 2008 by Duane
Last week I mentioned a story that showed how the Obama campaign funneled money to an organization that has repeatedly been caught engaging in voter fraud all across the country. If that alone wasn’t bad enough, many of these cases took place in mostly low-income Black and Hispanic communities. What should have resulted in a noticeable rebuke from supporters who claim to want to see a CHANGE in how politics is done in this country went largely unnoticed. Voter fraud in mostly Black counties in Alabama has been an ongoing issue for years–under Black leadership. Check out this 3 minute NPR piece covering the issue. According to the story, Black folks were getting paid cash in exchange of their ballot.
Around the same time last week, McCain’s gaffe over not knowing how many homes he owned was immediately pounced on by the Obama campaign. Both commentators in mainstream media and much of the Black blogosphere followed right in step with Obama’s response to McCain’s gaffe. The voter fraud story went largely unnoticed by both groups.
For decades, we have fought for the right to not only participate in the voting process, but the guarantee that one man equaled one vote. Does our longing to see a Black man sit in one of the most powerful seats in the world come with the price tag “By any means necessary”?
I don’t care what side of the political spectrum you consider your home. When Black men are wrongfully imprisoned for crimes they did not commit, Black Republicans/conservatives should use their resources to point to the flaws in our system that continuously allows this to happen. When the ballot box in poor Black communities has become tainted with fake votes, Black Democrats/liberals cannot look the other way simply because those votes oftentimes benefit the Democratic party.
Both sides have to do a much better job in not allowing partisan politics to temper our responses to the needs within our own culture.
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