Stephen A Smith Says All Black People Should Vote Republican...

[joeybee12]

...in one election

http://news.yahoo.com/stephen-a-smith-black-americans-should-vote-republican-gop-election-140317220.html

ESPN host Stephen A. Smith says that if every African-American voted Republican for one election, it would send a strong message to the GOP that their vote is important.

“What I dream is that for one election, just one, every black person in America vote Republican,” Smith said Tuesday during an appearance at Vanderbilt University, according to audio published by Breitbart.com.

During the 2012 presidential election, an overwhelming 93 percent of black voters supported President Barack Obama, while just 6 percent voted for Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

“Black folks in America are telling one party, 'We don’t give a damn about you,’” Smith said. “They’re telling the other party, ‘You’ve got our vote.’ Therefore, you have labeled yourself ‘disenfranchised’ because one party knows they’ve got you under their thumb, the other party knows they’ll never get you and nobody comes to address your interest[s].”

[MANative]

1. Stephen A. Smith is a tool on every level. n/t

[joeybee12]

2. I agree...

Most ESPN "journalists" drive me crazy, him especially.

[MANative]

12. I generally change the channel or mute the sound when he's on. He was BRUTAL...

in his condemnation of Tom over "deflategate" - and we all see that's gone absolutely nowhere. I still think it was someone on the Colts team that did the tampering, if there was any at all. He was calling for Tom's (and Bill's) immediate suspension. Screw him.

[joeybee12]

14. Notice how you don't hear about that anymore...right after they reported

it was the NFL official who told the Pats attendant to give it to the ref...the NFL official who was fired right after? That's because he wanted to sell a ball that could be advertised as a ball that was actually used in the game for some "charity"

[MANative]

16. Yup. Completely disappeared from all conversation. There will be some 400-page

report issued citing hundreds of psi tests in all kinds of weather conditions, none of which have anything to do with the actual footballs used that day. The report will be issued on the Friday before Memorial Day weekend, stating that there were no conclusive findings and thus no penalties levied. Lay odds on it! A great big nothing-burger.

[joeybee12]

28. The real story in all this is the incompetence of the media...

One unconfirmed story by an asshat at ESPN and they all jump on it like it's gospel truth.

[MANative]

30. Very true! From what I've read, it seemed that each of the "breaking news" items from...

ESPN - I think there were three different "bombshells" - turned out to be either wholly or materially wrong. I know there was one story that was actually removed from their website, but everyone else was still running with it because they were using "attribution" rather than their own reporting. Sounds awfully familiar, doesn't it?

[joeybee12]

32. Yeah, when they removed the story all the comments sections on espn.com

kept calling them cowards and what-not...it was pathetic how they were played...although I tend to think some of the reporters simply made stuff up.

[MANative]

33. It was more about driving clicks to their websites and getting people to tune in...

to the TV shows in the lead-up to the game. The theories, speculation, and accusations that were flying around those two weeks were just insane. Purely manufactured conspiracy. Again, sound familiar?

[joeybee12]

36. Oh yeah...

And I bet it sounds familiar to Hilary Clinton.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

35. "I still think it was someone on the Colts team that did the tampering,"

LOL.

I'm sure Aaron is not guilty too.

[hifiguy]

13. Agreed. I found him amusing and entertaining a couple of years ago

but he has jumped a whole school of sharks. I actually prefer Skip Bayless now, and I find him almost impossible to stomach, which says volumes about where Smith has gone.

[underpants]

15. Agreed n/t

[adigal]

3. Could you imagine like in the good old USA with a Repub President, both branches of Congress and

Supremes for black people???

God help us all.

[salin]

4. Look how it turns out when the GOP was "courting the Hispanic vote"

Mainstreaming of the idea of state setting drastic legislation to "encourage self-deportation".

The GOP has gotten so extreme that they have become joyfully and cruelly misanthropic - even to those people they are "courting".

[Orsino]

5. Therefore, they shouldn't.

That was easy.

[joeybee12]

7. Hah!

[virtualobserver]

6. all brain dead buffoons should vote for Democrats for one election cycle....

to show Republicans that they don't have the brain dead buffoon vote locked up.

[upaloopa]

26. LMAO

[SamKnause]

8. I am a pasty white female and I

definitely don't give a damn about you (Republican party).

I consider them to be the anti human party.

They only care about fetuses, money, power, and religion (the Christian religion).

[Aristus]

21. And war...

Although I supposed if you get enough money, power, and religion together in one place, war is the inevitable result...

[SamKnause]

29. It does seem to turn out that way.

[stage left]

9. say this is satire.

Please.

[SheilaT]

10. Vote for the very people who

despise you and would happily put you back in bondage? And that would make them start treating better because?

What he obviously doesn't understand is that the reason the very vast majority of black voters vote Democratic, is that they do understand which party is closer to having their best interests in mind.

[LittleBlue]

11. A bad idea, but he describes a real problem

We take the AA vote for granted. It has often caused the black community to be neglected.

After all, why spend political capital wooing those who we expect to vote overwhelmingly for us? It's sad. His comments cannot be dismissed so easily because they make us think about how we treat AAs.

[hughee99]

17. I completely agree. I'm not sure what the solution is, but politicians pay attention when you have

something they want (money or votes). If they're sure they'll get either from you, or sure that they won't, they'll move on to a group that's on the fence and do what they can to sway them.

Organizations that always get what they want from politicians (like major corporations) play both sides of the aisle.

[LittleBlue]

19. We have to find some way to economically empower black people

Money is political influence in this country. It's why blacks have so little real representation, even with a black president. That will take a long time.

You point out a serious problem. There is no easy solution.

The real problem here is that Republicans aren't even competing for their votes, so blacks are stuck voting for one party no matter what.

[hughee99]

31. I agree completely. Although it shouldn't, money seems to speak louder than votes,

and with the republicans not only not competing for, but actively shitting on black voters, it leaves very little recourse without economic empowerment.

[TeamPooka]

20. With out us African-Americans would be subject to new Jim Crow laws and poll taxes

as well as having no social safety net like the GOP wants and fights for every damn day.
So enough of this bullshit that we don't fight for AA issues in our party.

[TeamPooka]

18. Tell Mr. Smith that the GOP's version of "courting the black vote" is re-instating slavery.

[Politicalboi]

22. “Black folks in America are telling one party, 'We don’t give a damn about you,’”

No, It's the GOP party telling black people we don't give a damn till election time.

[karadax]

23. It happened in Mississippi with Thad Cochran

Given it was a Republican primary. In the runoff Cochran successfully appealed to the African-American vote in order to defeat a Tea Party challenger. Democrats voted for a Republican that better suited their needs and wants. He brings Washington DC money into the state.

I wouldn't mind seeing it happen. It would certainly be a wake up call.

[olddots]

24. dear Mr. Smith

¥£€_%&*¥₩÷*$€÷_×^

There is no business like show business .

[DisgustipatedinCA]

25. And all farmers should have voted for Stalin.

And German Jews should have voted for Hitler.

In fact, everyone should vote against their own self-interest in order to be more like the dumbass base of the GOP.

[randr]

27. If a larger number of black, women, or young voters turned out

and voted Democratic I think the Republicans would get the message and the rest of use would not have to suffer their anguish at having learned something.

[Johonny]

34. Err, political parties are supposed to care about us, and not us for the parties

If the Republican party demonstrated it cared for the African American community then their problem with the black vote would be solved.

[Jamaal510]

37. I'd rather vote 3rd party

than to ever vote for a Republican. What sense would it make for me to vote for a party like them? They've not only been starting wars with foreign countries, but have also been opposed to expanding the right to vote and health care, have tried to wipe out the safety net and the minimum wage (which many Blacks rely on), and have been trying to do away with public sector jobs.
Furthermore, the majority of Republicans (with the exception of Jon Huntsman and a few others) don't take science seriously anymore, and they've lied that climate change doesn't exist, despite 97% of scientists confirming that it does. And with regards to Black issues, the Democratic Party hasn't been perfect either over the years. I wish that Pres. Obama, for example, would be as aggressive when it comes to shedding light on issues in the Black community as he has with the Latino and LGBT communities (though FOX News and Limbaugh would probably pounce on him even more for that). With that said, Democrats have been a thousand times better overall than the GOP since the mid 1960s, whether it's on job creation or on social issues. Frankly, the GOP didn't even deserve to have 6% of Black Americans vote for them in 2012. It should've been a big, fat goose egg.

[edhopper]

38. If they did

It would be the last vote they would be allowed to cast.