MORE SPITE OR SPIKE THAN RESPITE?
After the 2014 elections, I was castigated and berated by some people for saying that if 100% of the blacks had voted in certain districts, it would not have altered the outcomes. My statement was based upon demographics. My critics ' angry comments were not.
I did not quarrel with their irate criticisms. I felt their pain. Often our people feel pain. They take it out on those they can reach, rather than on those who are responsible for it. Such displaced thinking and sentimentality may assert itself yet again in this 2016 election, where certain similar racial demographic stratification dynamics manifest in, predominate in electoral districts.
It is exceedingly difficult to get 100% of any people to do anything voluntarily, whatever the reward , much less to vote in elections that and by reason of which they have been traditionally and historically cheated, discriminated against, ostracized from, even lynched; or, consequent to which, they have been underserved or betrayed by those whom we did elect to office!
My point is this: as demographic, racially stigmatized minorities, in the United States of America, we have done great things. And we will do many more great things. But, in the realm electoral politics, the deck has been stacked against us purposely. Thus, it is well that we not be seduced, nor deceived, by the Barack Obama aberration into conceiving the existence of a new political plateau from what may in fact be more spite or spike than respite !
Vote your economic interests first, whatever your demographic may be! Elected politicians certainly will!
Friday, November 4, 2016
MORE SPITE OR SPIKE THAN RESPITE?
MORE SPITE OR SPIKE THAN RESPITE?
After the 2014 elections, I was castigated and berated by some people for saying that if 100% of the blacks had voted in certain districts, it would not have altered the outcomes. My statement was based upon demographics. My critics ' angry comments were not.
I did not quarrel with their irate criticisms. I felt their pain. Often our people feel pain. They take it out on those they can reach, rather than on those who are responsible for it. Such displaced thinking and sentimentality may assert itself yet again in this 2016 election, where certain similar racial demographic stratification dynamics manifest in, predominate in electoral districts.
It is exceedingly difficult to get 100% of any people to do anything voluntarily, whatever the reward , much less to vote in elections that and by reason of which they have been traditionally and historically cheated, discriminated against, ostracized from, even lynched; or, consequent to which, they have been underserved or betrayed by those whom we did elect to office!
My point is this: as demographic, racially stigmatized minorities, in the United States of America, we have done great things. And we will do many more great things. But, in the realm electoral politics, the deck has been stacked against us purposely. Thus, it is well that we not be seduced, nor deceived, by the Barack Obama aberration into conceiving the existence of a new political plateau from what may in fact be more spite or spike than respite !
Vote your economic interests first, whatever your demographic may be! Elected politicians certainly will!