What exactly do republicans have to offer blacks?

[sealybobo]

Can't read the link.


But I doubt that woman is a Trump supporter, Trump who moved the US embassy to jerusalem and who's daughter married a jew.

Stop making excuses. You can read the title.

Yes this is your typical Drumpf supporter. They are too stupid to even know Drumpf has Jews in his family.

They would prefer a guy who wouldn’t give his daughter to a Jew, or a guy who wouldn’t date his own daughter but they’ll take trump.

The people you are taking about A. are insignificantly small, and B. so far out there, neither one of us is likely to have a clue which way they will bounce on anything.

You just made a compelling argument. There aren’t that many racists among you. There are blacks who don’t like gays but still vote democratic. You can’t help it that racists like your platform better than ours. That doesn’t mean your platform is racist. What’s racist about your policies?

There is nothing racist about our policies.


But while a reasonable person would look at the nation, and all the factors and conclude for a host of good reasons, that we need to curtail immigration,


a racist could look at that policy, and for complete different reasons of his or her own, support it.



Good point on blacks who are not supportive of "gays", and still vote democratic.


Thank you for being reasonable on this one.



Note that that reasonableness, in no way undermines any of your arguments against our policies, nor requires you to start supporting them.


It is completely possible to disagree with us, without having to paint us as Evul Super Villains.

Here my friend is why blacks don't vote Republican

Georgia Knew Its Voter Roll Practice Was Discriminatory. It Stuck With It Anyway. | HuffPost

An analysis found that 70 percent of people whose voter registration is in jeopardy are black residents.

 

[IM2]

There is no democratic plantation. Blacks are able to think for ourselves. The two major reforms relative to racial equality of the last 60 years were democratic proposals. The overall platform of the democratic party deals with issues the large majority of blacks face. So what exactly does the republican party offer blacks?. We are free, so republicans don't offer that. So aside from the fact Lincoln signed a piece of paper 153 years ago, what does the republican party have to offer?

When blacks figure out what they want maybe they can get it for themselves and not depend on others to give it to them

When whites like this learn they have been given everything by the government they'll stop making comments like this one.

Funny I never got anything from the government.

Yes you have. Still today there are laws and policies enacted at every level of government that gives whites advantages. Whites are where they are due to legislation. That is the government giving you things.

 

[sealybobo]

There is no democratic plantation. Blacks are able to think for ourselves. The two major reforms relative to racial equality of the last 60 years were democratic proposals. The overall platform of the democratic party deals with issues the large majority of blacks face. So what exactly does the republican party offer blacks?. We are free, so republicans don't offer that. So aside from the fact Lincoln signed a piece of paper 153 years ago, what does the republican party have to offer?

The stark disparity drew scrutiny because Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp (R), the state’s top elections official, is running for governor. He is locked in a tight race with Stacey Abrams, the former Democratic leader in the Georgia statehouse who, if elected, would be the first black woman to serve as a governor in the United States.

Georgia aggressively removes people from the rolls who don’t vote and fail to respond to a mailer confirming their address; it purged about 1.5 million voters from 2012 to 2016, twice as many as it did from 2008 to 2012, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.

No wonder Georgia is still a red state.

 

[IM2]

Stop making excuses. You can read the title.

Yes this is your typical Drumpf supporter. They are too stupid to even know Drumpf has Jews in his family.

They would prefer a guy who wouldn’t give his daughter to a Jew, or a guy who wouldn’t date his own daughter but they’ll take trump.

The people you are taking about A. are insignificantly small, and B. so far out there, neither one of us is likely to have a clue which way they will bounce on anything.

You just made a compelling argument. There aren’t that many racists among you. There are blacks who don’t like gays but still vote democratic. You can’t help it that racists like your platform better than ours. That doesn’t mean your platform is racist. What’s racist about your policies?

There is nothing racist about our policies.


But while a reasonable person would look at the nation, and all the factors and conclude for a host of good reasons, that we need to curtail immigration,


a racist could look at that policy, and for complete different reasons of his or her own, support it.



Good point on blacks who are not supportive of "gays", and still vote democratic.


Thank you for being reasonable on this one.



Note that that reasonableness, in no way undermines any of your arguments against our policies, nor requires you to start supporting them.


It is completely possible to disagree with us, without having to paint us as Evul Super Villains.

Here my friend is why blacks don't vote Republican

Georgia Knew Its Voter Roll Practice Was Discriminatory. It Stuck With It Anyway. | HuffPost

An analysis found that 70 percent of people whose voter registration is in jeopardy are black residents.

Not only that, but it is why blacks voting numbers have been lower. So you might want to think about this issue before you ever go off again on one of your rants about how blacks don't vote and white men do.

 

[sealybobo]

There is no democratic plantation. Blacks are able to think for ourselves. The two major reforms relative to racial equality of the last 60 years were democratic proposals. The overall platform of the democratic party deals with issues the large majority of blacks face. So what exactly does the republican party offer blacks?. We are free, so republicans don't offer that. So aside from the fact Lincoln signed a piece of paper 153 years ago, what does the republican party have to offer?

When blacks figure out what they want maybe they can get it for themselves and not depend on others to give it to them

When whites like this learn they have been given everything by the government they'll stop making comments like this one.

Funny I never got anything from the government.

Yes you have. Still today there are laws and policies enacted at every level of government that gives whites advantages. Whites are where they are due to legislation. That is the government giving you things.

Very true. Let's take race out of the equation for a second.

Democracy - Not "The Free Market" - Will Save America's Middle Class

The "middle class" is the creation of government intervention in the marketplace, and won't exist without it (as millions of Americans and Europeans are discovering).

The conservative belief in "free markets" is a bit like the Catholic Church's insistence that the Earth was at the center of the Solar System in the Twelfth Century. It's widely believed by those in power, those who challenge it are branded heretics and ridiculed, and it is wrong.

In actual fact, there is no such thing as a "free market." Markets are the creation of government.

Governments provide a stable currency to make markets possible. They provide a legal infrastructure and court systems to enforce the contracts that make markets possible. They provide educated workforces through public education, and those workers show up at their places of business after traveling on public roads, rails, or airways provided by government. Businesses that use the "free market" are protected by police and fire departments provided by government, and send their communications - from phone to fax to internet - over lines that follow public rights-of-way maintained and protected by government.

And, most important, the rules of the game of business are defined by government. Any sports fan can tell you that football, baseball, or hockey without rules and referees would be a mess. Similarly, business without rules won't work.

Which explains why conservative economics wiped out the middle class during the period from 1880 to 1932, and why, when Reagan again began applying conservative economics, the middle class again began to vanish in America in the 1980s - a process that has dramatically picked up steam under George W. Bush.

The conservative mantra is "let the market decide." But there is no market independent of government, so what they're really saying is, "Stop government from defending workers and building a middle class, and let the corporations decide how much to pay for labor and how to trade." This is, at best, destructive to national and international economies, and, at worst, destructive to democracy itself.

 

[IM2]

There is no democratic plantation. Blacks are able to think for ourselves. The two major reforms relative to racial equality of the last 60 years were democratic proposals. The overall platform of the democratic party deals with issues the large majority of blacks face. So what exactly does the republican party offer blacks?. We are free, so republicans don't offer that. So aside from the fact Lincoln signed a piece of paper 153 years ago, what does the republican party have to offer?

The stark disparity drew scrutiny because Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp (R), the state’s top elections official, is running for governor. He is locked in a tight race with Stacey Abrams, the former Democratic leader in the Georgia statehouse who, if elected, would be the first black woman to serve as a governor in the United States.

Georgia aggressively removes people from the rolls who don’t vote and fail to respond to a mailer confirming their address; it purged about 1.5 million voters from 2012 to 2016, twice as many as it did from 2008 to 2012, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.

No wonder Georgia is still a red state.

Georgia is not the only state like this. The rust belt had states with similar problems.

 

[IM2]

There is no democratic plantation. Blacks are able to think for ourselves. The two major reforms relative to racial equality of the last 60 years were democratic proposals. The overall platform of the democratic party deals with issues the large majority of blacks face. So what exactly does the republican party offer blacks?. We are free, so republicans don't offer that. So aside from the fact Lincoln signed a piece of paper 153 years ago, what does the republican party have to offer?

When blacks figure out what they want maybe they can get it for themselves and not depend on others to give it to them

When whites like this learn they have been given everything by the government they'll stop making comments like this one.

Funny I never got anything from the government.

Yes you have. Still today there are laws and policies enacted at every level of government that gives whites advantages. Whites are where they are due to legislation. That is the government giving you things.

Very true. Let's take race out of the equation for a second.

Democracy - Not "The Free Market" - Will Save America's Middle Class

The "middle class" is the creation of government intervention in the marketplace, and won't exist without it (as millions of Americans and Europeans are discovering).

The conservative belief in "free markets" is a bit like the Catholic Church's insistence that the Earth was at the center of the Solar System in the Twelfth Century. It's widely believed by those in power, those who challenge it are branded heretics and ridiculed, and it is wrong.

In actual fact, there is no such thing as a "free market." Markets are the creation of government.

Governments provide a stable currency to make markets possible. They provide a legal infrastructure and court systems to enforce the contracts that make markets possible. They provide educated workforces through public education, and those workers show up at their places of business after traveling on public roads, rails, or airways provided by government. Businesses that use the "free market" are protected by police and fire departments provided by government, and send their communications - from phone to fax to internet - over lines that follow public rights-of-way maintained and protected by government.

And, most important, the rules of the game of business are defined by government. Any sports fan can tell you that football, baseball, or hockey without rules and referees would be a mess. Similarly, business without rules won't work.

Which explains why conservative economics wiped out the middle class during the period from 1880 to 1932, and why, when Reagan again began applying conservative economics, the middle class again began to vanish in America in the 1980s - a process that has dramatically picked up steam under George W. Bush.

The conservative mantra is "let the market decide." But there is no market independent of government, so what they're really saying is, "Stop government from defending workers and building a middle class, and let the corporations decide how much to pay for labor and how to trade." This is, at best, destructive to national and international economies, and, at worst, destructive to democracy itself.

You get no argument from me here. I've been saying this for years. Of course there is no free market, but you can't leave race out of anything no matter how badly some whites want to try. I'm not talking about you when I say that.

 

[sealybobo]

When blacks figure out what they want maybe they can get it for themselves and not depend on others to give it to them

When whites like this learn they have been given everything by the government they'll stop making comments like this one.

Funny I never got anything from the government.

Yes you have. Still today there are laws and policies enacted at every level of government that gives whites advantages. Whites are where they are due to legislation. That is the government giving you things.

Very true. Let's take race out of the equation for a second.

Democracy - Not "The Free Market" - Will Save America's Middle Class

The "middle class" is the creation of government intervention in the marketplace, and won't exist without it (as millions of Americans and Europeans are discovering).

The conservative belief in "free markets" is a bit like the Catholic Church's insistence that the Earth was at the center of the Solar System in the Twelfth Century. It's widely believed by those in power, those who challenge it are branded heretics and ridiculed, and it is wrong.

In actual fact, there is no such thing as a "free market." Markets are the creation of government.

Governments provide a stable currency to make markets possible. They provide a legal infrastructure and court systems to enforce the contracts that make markets possible. They provide educated workforces through public education, and those workers show up at their places of business after traveling on public roads, rails, or airways provided by government. Businesses that use the "free market" are protected by police and fire departments provided by government, and send their communications - from phone to fax to internet - over lines that follow public rights-of-way maintained and protected by government.

And, most important, the rules of the game of business are defined by government. Any sports fan can tell you that football, baseball, or hockey without rules and referees would be a mess. Similarly, business without rules won't work.

Which explains why conservative economics wiped out the middle class during the period from 1880 to 1932, and why, when Reagan again began applying conservative economics, the middle class again began to vanish in America in the 1980s - a process that has dramatically picked up steam under George W. Bush.

The conservative mantra is "let the market decide." But there is no market independent of government, so what they're really saying is, "Stop government from defending workers and building a middle class, and let the corporations decide how much to pay for labor and how to trade." This is, at best, destructive to national and international economies, and, at worst, destructive to democracy itself.

You get no argument from me here. I've been saying this for years. Of course there is no free market, but you can't leave race out of anything no matter how badly some whites want to try. I'm not talking about you when I say that.

I'm just saying take race out of the discussion for a second because these dumb ass middle class and poor Republicans don't realize why the middle class is disappearing. They're making fun of poor black people when

65% of Americans save little or nothing—and half could end up struggling in retirement

I'm sure there are more whites in that 65% than there are blacks since blacks only make up around 15% of the population. That means 50% of the people this link is talking about are white people.

And they blame liberals and democrats for this when the article I posted clearly explains that it is Republican policies that are making the middle class poor. They won't read the op ed and even if they did they wouldn't get it.

Democracy, Not The Free Market, Will Save America | Scoop News

They think our government is the enemy but it should be the fair referee. It's not a fair referee right now. Right now it favors rich people.

 

[sealybobo]

There is no democratic plantation. Blacks are able to think for ourselves. The two major reforms relative to racial equality of the last 60 years were democratic proposals. The overall platform of the democratic party deals with issues the large majority of blacks face. So what exactly does the republican party offer blacks?. We are free, so republicans don't offer that. So aside from the fact Lincoln signed a piece of paper 153 years ago, what does the republican party have to offer?

The stark disparity drew scrutiny because Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp (R), the state’s top elections official, is running for governor. He is locked in a tight race with Stacey Abrams, the former Democratic leader in the Georgia statehouse who, if elected, would be the first black woman to serve as a governor in the United States.

Georgia aggressively removes people from the rolls who don’t vote and fail to respond to a mailer confirming their address; it purged about 1.5 million voters from 2012 to 2016, twice as many as it did from 2008 to 2012, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.

No wonder Georgia is still a red state.

Georgia is not the only state like this. The rust belt had states with similar problems.

Makes me wonder that these red states that always vote red are maybe rigged elections. Ok blacks, you want to vote, go ahead, but we will just rig the outcome so you are wasting your time.

I worry even Michigan was rigged. I wouldn't put anything past Rick Snyder. He's an evil man. Poisoned the citizens of Flint, MI and he won't serve any jail time.

Flint water crisis criminal prosecutions: Where things stand now

To date, 15 current and former state and local officials have been charged for their role that led to the Flint water crisis. The cases center on a Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Genesee County that killed a dozen people from 2014 to the end of 2015.

Health department officials, including Lyon, were aware of a spike in Legionnaires' cases in January 2015. However, the first public warning about the deadly form of pneumonia was not issued until a year later.

• Thirteen of those charged are facing possible jail time.

• Two have already pleaded guilty and are cooperating with prosecutors.

• Preliminary exams are just beginning. A preliminary exam is a court hearing to determine whether there's enough evidence for a case to move to trial.

• Michigan Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and misconduct in office. Lyon's preliminary exam continues next month.

• The preliminary exam for Michigan Chief Medical Executive Eden Wells was scheduled to begin on Monday, but was extended when prosecutors said they plan add new charges against her. Wells had already been charged with obstruction of justice and lying to a police officer. The new charges are involuntary manslaughter and misconduct in office. Her preliminary exam will resume on Nov. 6.

• There are preliminary exams for other defendants scheduled in November, December and January.

• No trials are expected to begin until sometime in 2018.

• It's not clear if some of the trials, if they happen, would include multiple defendants.

 

[Skull Pilot]

There is no democratic plantation. Blacks are able to think for ourselves. The two major reforms relative to racial equality of the last 60 years were democratic proposals. The overall platform of the democratic party deals with issues the large majority of blacks face. So what exactly does the republican party offer blacks?. We are free, so republicans don't offer that. So aside from the fact Lincoln signed a piece of paper 153 years ago, what does the republican party have to offer?

When blacks figure out what they want maybe they can get it for themselves and not depend on others to give it to them

When whites like this learn they have been given everything by the government they'll stop making comments like this one.

Funny I never got anything from the government.

Yes you have. Still today there are laws and policies enacted at every level of government that gives whites advantages. Whites are where they are due to legislation. That is the government giving you things.

No I haven't.

Never took a dime of government money for anything. Never applied for a government program of any type

No law or policy on the books ever got me a job or paid my bills

 

[Asclepias]

There is no democratic plantation. Blacks are able to think for ourselves. The two major reforms relative to racial equality of the last 60 years were democratic proposals. The overall platform of the democratic party deals with issues the large majority of blacks face. So what exactly does the republican party offer blacks?. We are free, so republicans don't offer that. So aside from the fact Lincoln signed a piece of paper 153 years ago, what does the republican party have to offer?

When blacks figure out what they want maybe they can get it for themselves and not depend on others to give it to them

When whites like this learn they have been given everything by the government they'll stop making comments like this one.

Funny I never got anything from the government.

Yes you have. Still today there are laws and policies enacted at every level of government that gives whites advantages. Whites are where they are due to legislation. That is the government giving you things.

No I haven't.

Never took a dime of government money for anything. Never applied for a government program of any type

No law or policy on the books ever got me a job or paid my bills

Whoever hired you had a policy to hire white people first.

 

[Oldstyle]

When blacks figure out what they want maybe they can get it for themselves and not depend on others to give it to them

When whites like this learn they have been given everything by the government they'll stop making comments like this one.

Funny I never got anything from the government.

Yes you have. Still today there are laws and policies enacted at every level of government that gives whites advantages. Whites are where they are due to legislation. That is the government giving you things.

No I haven't.

Never took a dime of government money for anything. Never applied for a government program of any type

No law or policy on the books ever got me a job or paid my bills

Whoever hired you had a policy to hire white people first.

We have laws that force companies to hire minorities over white people. That is the government giving YOU things and taking them away from others.

 

[Asclepias]

When whites like this learn they have been given everything by the government they'll stop making comments like this one.

Funny I never got anything from the government.

Yes you have. Still today there are laws and policies enacted at every level of government that gives whites advantages. Whites are where they are due to legislation. That is the government giving you things.

No I haven't.

Never took a dime of government money for anything. Never applied for a government program of any type

No law or policy on the books ever got me a job or paid my bills

Whoever hired you had a policy to hire white people first.

We have laws that force companies to hire minorities over white people. That is the government giving YOU things and taking them away from others.

Show me these laws if you can. Now lets pretend its true. The government gave whites things for 400 years taking away from others so why would you be whining about something you have had for centuries?

 

[Oldstyle]

Funny I never got anything from the government.

Yes you have. Still today there are laws and policies enacted at every level of government that gives whites advantages. Whites are where they are due to legislation. That is the government giving you things.

No I haven't.

Never took a dime of government money for anything. Never applied for a government program of any type

No law or policy on the books ever got me a job or paid my bills

Whoever hired you had a policy to hire white people first.

We have laws that force companies to hire minorities over white people. That is the government giving YOU things and taking them away from others.

Show me these laws if you can. Now lets pretend its true. The government gave whites things for 400 years taking away from others so why would you be whining about something you have had for centuries?

You don't know about Affirmative Action, Milkweed? Seriously?

 

[Asclepias]

Yes you have. Still today there are laws and policies enacted at every level of government that gives whites advantages. Whites are where they are due to legislation. That is the government giving you things.

No I haven't.

Never took a dime of government money for anything. Never applied for a government program of any type

No law or policy on the books ever got me a job or paid my bills

Whoever hired you had a policy to hire white people first.

We have laws that force companies to hire minorities over white people. That is the government giving YOU things and taking them away from others.

Show me these laws if you can. Now lets pretend its true. The government gave whites things for 400 years taking away from others so why would you be whining about something you have had for centuries?

You don't know about Affirmative Action, Milkweed? Seriously?

Are you stalling or do you really not know that affirmative action is not a law?

 

[IM2]

When whites like this learn they have been given everything by the government they'll stop making comments like this one.

Funny I never got anything from the government.

Yes you have. Still today there are laws and policies enacted at every level of government that gives whites advantages. Whites are where they are due to legislation. That is the government giving you things.

Very true. Let's take race out of the equation for a second.

Democracy - Not "The Free Market" - Will Save America's Middle Class

The "middle class" is the creation of government intervention in the marketplace, and won't exist without it (as millions of Americans and Europeans are discovering).

The conservative belief in "free markets" is a bit like the Catholic Church's insistence that the Earth was at the center of the Solar System in the Twelfth Century. It's widely believed by those in power, those who challenge it are branded heretics and ridiculed, and it is wrong.

In actual fact, there is no such thing as a "free market." Markets are the creation of government.

Governments provide a stable currency to make markets possible. They provide a legal infrastructure and court systems to enforce the contracts that make markets possible. They provide educated workforces through public education, and those workers show up at their places of business after traveling on public roads, rails, or airways provided by government. Businesses that use the "free market" are protected by police and fire departments provided by government, and send their communications - from phone to fax to internet - over lines that follow public rights-of-way maintained and protected by government.

And, most important, the rules of the game of business are defined by government. Any sports fan can tell you that football, baseball, or hockey without rules and referees would be a mess. Similarly, business without rules won't work.

Which explains why conservative economics wiped out the middle class during the period from 1880 to 1932, and why, when Reagan again began applying conservative economics, the middle class again began to vanish in America in the 1980s - a process that has dramatically picked up steam under George W. Bush.

The conservative mantra is "let the market decide." But there is no market independent of government, so what they're really saying is, "Stop government from defending workers and building a middle class, and let the corporations decide how much to pay for labor and how to trade." This is, at best, destructive to national and international economies, and, at worst, destructive to democracy itself.

You get no argument from me here. I've been saying this for years. Of course there is no free market, but you can't leave race out of anything no matter how badly some whites want to try. I'm not talking about you when I say that.

I'm just saying take race out of the discussion for a second because these dumb ass middle class and poor Republicans don't realize why the middle class is disappearing. They're making fun of poor black people when

65% of Americans save little or nothing—and half could end up struggling in retirement

I'm sure there are more whites in that 65% than there are blacks since blacks only make up around 15% of the population. That means 50% of the people this link is talking about are white people.

And they blame liberals and democrats for this when the article I posted clearly explains that it is Republican policies that are making the middle class poor. They won't read the op ed and even if they did they wouldn't get it.

Democracy, Not The Free Market, Will Save America | Scoop News

They think our government is the enemy but it should be the fair referee. It's not a fair referee right now. Right now it favors rich people.

I most certainly agree with you.

 

[IM2]

Yes you have. Still today there are laws and policies enacted at every level of government that gives whites advantages. Whites are where they are due to legislation. That is the government giving you things.

No I haven't.

Never took a dime of government money for anything. Never applied for a government program of any type

No law or policy on the books ever got me a job or paid my bills

Whoever hired you had a policy to hire white people first.

We have laws that force companies to hire minorities over white people. That is the government giving YOU things and taking them away from others.

Show me these laws if you can. Now lets pretend its true. The government gave whites things for 400 years taking away from others so why would you be whining about something you have had for centuries?

You don't know about Affirmative Action, Milkweed? Seriously?

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Joseph Goebbels
​

Remember this every time you try talking about affirmative action.

 

[IM2]

There is no democratic plantation. Blacks are able to think for ourselves. The two major reforms relative to racial equality of the last 60 years were democratic proposals. The overall platform of the democratic party deals with issues the large majority of blacks face. So what exactly does the republican party offer blacks?. We are free, so republicans don't offer that. So aside from the fact Lincoln signed a piece of paper 153 years ago, what does the republican party have to offer?

When blacks figure out what they want maybe they can get it for themselves and not depend on others to give it to them

When whites like this learn they have been given everything by the government they'll stop making comments like this one.

Funny I never got anything from the government.

Yes you have. Still today there are laws and policies enacted at every level of government that gives whites advantages. Whites are where they are due to legislation. That is the government giving you things.

No I haven't.

Never took a dime of government money for anything. Never applied for a government program of any type

No law or policy on the books ever got me a job or paid my bills

Yes you have.

And yes, laws and policies made gave you jobs thereby paying your bills. That's what dumb whites like you do not understand.

 

[IM2]

There is no democratic plantation. Blacks are able to think for ourselves. The two major reforms relative to racial equality of the last 60 years were democratic proposals. The overall platform of the democratic party deals with issues the large majority of blacks face. So what exactly does the republican party offer blacks?. We are free, so republicans don't offer that. So aside from the fact Lincoln signed a piece of paper 153 years ago, what does the republican party have to offer?

The stark disparity drew scrutiny because Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp (R), the state’s top elections official, is running for governor. He is locked in a tight race with Stacey Abrams, the former Democratic leader in the Georgia statehouse who, if elected, would be the first black woman to serve as a governor in the United States.

Georgia aggressively removes people from the rolls who don’t vote and fail to respond to a mailer confirming their address; it purged about 1.5 million voters from 2012 to 2016, twice as many as it did from 2008 to 2012, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.

No wonder Georgia is still a red state.

Georgia is not the only state like this. The rust belt had states with similar problems.

Makes me wonder that these red states that always vote red are maybe rigged elections. Ok blacks, you want to vote, go ahead, but we will just rig the outcome so you are wasting your time.

I worry even Michigan was rigged. I wouldn't put anything past Rick Snyder. He's an evil man. Poisoned the citizens of Flint, MI and he won't serve any jail time.

Flint water crisis criminal prosecutions: Where things stand now

To date, 15 current and former state and local officials have been charged for their role that led to the Flint water crisis. The cases center on a Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Genesee County that killed a dozen people from 2014 to the end of 2015.

Health department officials, including Lyon, were aware of a spike in Legionnaires' cases in January 2015. However, the first public warning about the deadly form of pneumonia was not issued until a year later.

• Thirteen of those charged are facing possible jail time.

• Two have already pleaded guilty and are cooperating with prosecutors.

• Preliminary exams are just beginning. A preliminary exam is a court hearing to determine whether there's enough evidence for a case to move to trial.

• Michigan Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and misconduct in office. Lyon's preliminary exam continues next month.

• The preliminary exam for Michigan Chief Medical Executive Eden Wells was scheduled to begin on Monday, but was extended when prosecutors said they plan add new charges against her. Wells had already been charged with obstruction of justice and lying to a police officer. The new charges are involuntary manslaughter and misconduct in office. Her preliminary exam will resume on Nov. 6.

• There are preliminary exams for other defendants scheduled in November, December and January.

• No trials are expected to begin until sometime in 2018.

• It's not clear if some of the trials, if they happen, would include multiple defendants.

True. But to hear these right wingers, the democratic mayor of flint caused the problem.

 

[IM2]

When whites like this learn they have been given everything by the government they'll stop making comments like this one.

Funny I never got anything from the government.

Yes you have. Still today there are laws and policies enacted at every level of government that gives whites advantages. Whites are where they are due to legislation. That is the government giving you things.

No I haven't.

Never took a dime of government money for anything. Never applied for a government program of any type

No law or policy on the books ever got me a job or paid my bills

Whoever hired you had a policy to hire white people first.

We have laws that force companies to hire minorities over white people. That is the government giving YOU things and taking them away from others.

No such laws exist. Any policy pertaining to this matter only applies to businesses that are not hiring minorities at all.

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Joseph Goebbels​