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For several months, radio host Tom Joyner has pleaded with his 8 million listeners to get in line behind the first black president.
Stick together, black people, says Joyner, whose R&B morning show reaches one in four African American adults.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, an ally of President Obama who has a daily radio show and hosts a nightly cable television program, recently told the presidents black critics, Im not telling you to shut up. Im telling you: Dont make some of us have to speak up.
Even as Obama and his campaign play down the suggestion that support among African Americans is flagging, a cadre of powerful allies is snapping back at critics in the black community and making explicit appeals for racial loyalty.
Lets not even deal with the facts right now. Lets deal with just our blackness and pride and loyalty, Joyner wrote on his BlackAmericaWeb.com blog. We have the chance to re-elect the first African-American president, and thats what we ought to be doing. And Im not afraid or ashamed to say that as black people, we should do it because hes a black man.
Can Obama hold on to African American voters in 2012? - The Washington Post
Nope.. Absolutely nothing racist about black people. Nope.
Stick together, black people, says Joyner, whose R&B morning show reaches one in four African American adults.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, an ally of President Obama who has a daily radio show and hosts a nightly cable television program, recently told the presidents black critics, Im not telling you to shut up. Im telling you: Dont make some of us have to speak up.
Even as Obama and his campaign play down the suggestion that support among African Americans is flagging, a cadre of powerful allies is snapping back at critics in the black community and making explicit appeals for racial loyalty.
Lets not even deal with the facts right now. Lets deal with just our blackness and pride and loyalty, Joyner wrote on his BlackAmericaWeb.com blog. We have the chance to re-elect the first African-American president, and thats what we ought to be doing. And Im not afraid or ashamed to say that as black people, we should do it because hes a black man.
Can Obama hold on to African American voters in 2012? - The Washington Post
Nope.. Absolutely nothing racist about black people. Nope.