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| Emanuel Cleaver |
Congressional Black Caucus Chair Emanuel Cleaver was quoted, today, as saying. “Black People Who Don’t Vote “Ought To Give Us Their Color Back” What he meant to say is this: “Black people who don’t vote Democrat should turn in their color.”
He went on to speak of being angry “. . . . .at any African-American who refuse[s] to vote. They are not
worth the color if they don’t vote. They ought to give us their color back.
Their African-American credentials need to be snatched if they don’t vote. . .
. That’s an insult to the ancestors and the people who brought us to where we
are right now. There’d be no Black Caucus but for the black men and women who fought
and died that we might have an opportunity to gather here in Washington that
there would be 42 members of the Congressional Black Caucus”
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| Congressional Black Caucus |
Why is this a story?
Because as many as 20% of the Black voting block may stay home, this election cycle. They are discouraged and just as poor and out
of work as the day Obama took office. What
you are seeing, in this statement, is a
certain and implicit fear that the Democrat voter is not as “energized” as the
press wants you to believe.
Seriously, if all was
well with the Black vote, would Cleaver’s
criticism be necessary?
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