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In reply to the discussion: Pew pokes a hole in "Orangetan-loving Black voters" narrative [View all]John Shaft
(364 posts)48. Black people can't read about politics?
What are you trying to say?
I sit in the barbershop. No one who looks like me is for TSF. No one like you is very often in those kind of rooms. The gentlemen I speak with are politically astute and get the vote out.
Are you assuming most Black people are uneducated criminals incapable of having political understanding?
Nice look.
Now tell me some more about Black folk.
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Pew pokes a hole in "Orangetan-loving Black voters" narrative [View all]
struggle4progress
Apr 14
OP
I don't think the typical black man will want to have to deal with the typical black woman on this topic
Walleye
Apr 14
#52
Sorry Brooklyn, but I don't think a white man is in any position to tell us what a
JohnSJ
Apr 14
#40
Nobody has claimed that there's a "seismic" shift among African American voters....
brooklynite
Apr 14
#5
There was a recent poll just last week that said there was no significant shift right of Black voters...
brush
Apr 14
#24
A campaign that waits to "see what happens on election day" invariably loses.
brooklynite
Apr 14
#25
Why ignore the Pew poll from last week that differs from the alleged shift you keep talking about?
brush
Apr 14
#26
False, the "shift" is not significant and hasn't gone up past recent GQP stats for black men or women
uponit7771
Apr 14
#13