Quote:I have been holding back trying frame this argument but this post has kind of forced my hand. So, on with the show:


How is that working for them? Let's be honest here. A black democrat is currently in the White House and in the 7+ years that he has been there how have the lives of black American's improved?


I am not black and I can only imagine what it is like; however, it seems to me that the opportunity to advance in life is there for everyone regardless of race, color, creed or sexual orientation. There are far too many success stories of minority's regardless of affiliation succeeding in life at all levels that tell me this line of thinking that the white man is keeping me down is pure bunk. Life owes us nothing we get out of it what we put in. Pure and simple.


Voting for any party or anyone for that matter that will promise to give you more free stuff to continue voting for them is self induced slavery. You have given up your own freedom to be anything you desire or aspire to be so that someone can take care of you. To me that is insane.

I don't think it's that black people are voting for free stuff when they vote Democrat. I think it's that they are voting for a party they feel they can be part of (did you see the black Trump supporter punched at a rally by other Trump supporters?). The DNC was a very diverse mix of people and the RNC had almost no color (unless you count the white people holding signs written in a bad translation of Spanish). You can argue the Dems have not done enough to advance black people in America and I could point out a few examples of things they actually have done (or at least tried). Then I would point out how Republicans have been systematically trying to suppress black voters (which you would likely deny -- it's real enough to them to not vote GOP in many cases). Black lives in America are significantly better than they were 50 years ago. I wouldn't necessarily say they improved greatly under Obama. Not sure if there is any correlation to the fact the entire Right side of the country has been conditioned to loathe anything the black guy running the country says or does. It could be just a coincidence and stagnant policies.


Then I would flip the script on you and talk about poor white people, especially in middle America who show extreme loyalty (or blindness) and consistently vote for a Republican party that has done nothing for them in my lifetime. This demographic comes out to vote "R" time and time again. And what have they gotten out of it? Maybe.. like the blacks, they tend to vote for a party they feel they can be part of. Or they just like the taste of boiled shoe soup.

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