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Blacks represent just 2 percent of GOP convention delegates.

thinkprogress.org — There are just 36 black delegates at this week’s Republican National Convention, “fewer than 2% of the total and a sharp drop-off from 2004,” when 6.7 percent were black. At last week’s Democratic National Convention, 24.5 percent of delegates were black. Recent polls show that about nine out of 10 black voters support Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL).

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  • charliebucketts, on 09/02/2008, -1/+4"Now, thanks to programs like welfare, they are slaves again."


    Where do I begin debunking this racist nonsense?

  • JazLive, on 09/02/2008, -0/+3This weekend I view an Asian movie, where the father sold his daughter to become a bride in the US. Back in the early western days. Anyway, the young woman was actually sold into slavery; shipped to the United States and sold again. The guy that bought her was an Asian, who purchased the girl for another Asian. Anyway the young woman was befriended by a Caucasian who gave her a knife; then by an ex-slave (African descendant) who explained to her that slavery was against the law. She could leave anytime she wanted.

    The Caucasian reminded her that she was a long way from home (China) and that he and she could live together in a mountainous range. By the end of the movie; locals evicted all of the Asians from the community because the gold rush slowed and the remaining commerce was too heavily shared with the Asian sector. The young woman was the ONLY Asian that was allowed to stay, mainly because of her attachment to the Caucasian that befriended her. He died prior to the eviction of the Asian community.

    Now about that remark regarding Y Black people vote with the democratic party? Many African-descendants were befriended by Democrats that "did not own slaves". Many former slave owners had a change of heart near the end of their lives and gave forturnes to decendants of slaves and some of them were Republicans.

    Today is what it is and has nothing to do with race, origin, creed, royal blood lines, Jesus siblings or anything else. Today is leading to election day November 2008 to choose the best candidate to restore the USA closer to where it was when William Jefferson Clinton left it and better by the Grace of Jehovah.
  • inactive, on 09/02/2008, -3/+4LOL

    Yeah, thanks to you rightards and the GOP for raising them up so proudly.
    Why, without the GOP to stand up for blacks those evil Dems would have crushed them into the dust!

    Remember in the 80's when Republicans wanted to go into the ghettos, not with health services, but with the Army to "clean out" those ghettos?
    Oh, and the GOP/right wing dedication to eradicating affirmative action, that was really good for blacks.
    The heavy push for recruiting right out of high school seems to target blacks, doesn't it?
    I guess that was the GOP who leaped to help people after Katrina. Oh, no it wasn't.
    So the GOP pushed for more money for education, so blacks could raise themselves up? NOPE.


    So, are you proud of yourself when you spew right wing lies like this?
    Personally I find it repulsive.
    You apparently have NO honor and NO integrity.
    Gee, what a shock. A dishonest warmongering coward of a rightard.

    Hey, thanks for illustrating right wing character, or lack thereof.
    It's the best advertisement to NOT vote GOP.
    How do you not choke on your lies?
  • rand0mm0nkey, on 09/02/2008, -3/+4Yeah! Vote for McCain so they can all get jobs in the military and go die in more pointless wars! WooHoo!!!
  • inactive, on 09/02/2008, -7/+2GASP!!

    It's amazing that blacks would rally around the same party that wanted to keep them slaves.(democrats)
    Now, thanks to programs like welfare, they are slaves again.

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