Rachel Maddow: Suppression of Black Vote Emerges as Tactic

[LongTomH]

Run time: 14:03 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7S9gElqC-U   Posted on YouTube: October 21, 2010 By YouTube Member: StartLoving3 Views on YouTube: 697   Posted on DU: October 22, 2010 By DU Member: LongTomH Views on DU: 860

 
We've heard so many racist comments and ads from Republicans in this election cycle. Aren't they afraid they'll anger Black voters, who'll turn out in force to vote for Democrats?

No! They're working on ways to suppress the Black vote. This is the same tactic we've seen in every recent election. Fraudulent claims of 'Voter Fraud,' threats that people can be arrested at the polls, and so on, ad nausem!

This is already happening in Missouri. At the Get-Out-the-Vote training session I attended last night in Kansas City, participants talked of threats that Black people could be arrested at the polls if they had outstanding traffic tickets.

[derby378]

1. Michael Steele sure picked the wrong team to root for

If he thought in any way he could be a moderating force for the GOP, he sees the error of his ways now.

[GreenTea]

3. Nope - Money is Steele's # 1 priority in life & republicans & corporations have it to give to

anyone who wants to sell out to the highest bidder and money is ALL Steele cares about along with the position of power that money brings, nothing else!

You've got it so wrong if you actually think republican Michael Steele is concerned about anyone but himself, certainly NOT the poor nor workers, middle class nor small business - Steele is in it for the bucks he knows the republican look for African-American and other minorities to use and Steele is more than willing - You must have some strange image of Steele if you believe otherwise.

[derby378]

5. I was honestly giving Steele the benefit of the doubt

After all, nobody in their right mind would be so stupid as to not want the Republican Party to care about the poor and minorities, right? Are you listening, Steele? Chime in any fucking time you want, precious...

:rofl:

[Bitwit1234]

2. They did these same things in the election where Ehrlich (R)

won in Maryland. But they circulated ads that told black people living in Baltimore and PG County (predominately black county) that if they were behind in their utilities to be on the look out for police who were going to arrest them if they showed up to vote. They also warned blacks that they would have to wait til Wednesday to vote because the election had been postponed from Tuesday to the Wednesday. They used all kinds of tactics to keep black away from the polls, because they knew these areas were predominately black and the black voters from PG and Baltimore County and Baltimore City, along with Montgomery County usually voted Democratic. They republicans are a sorry bunch of people and are the worst sore losers in the world.

[molly77]

7. If voter fraud is a felony, how did Ann Coulter stay out of jail?

[MikeMc]

4. Thanks LT-H. Maddow is tops.

So many nazi and cultist repug candidates, so little time.

[offog]

6. "Truth the Vote" is more about "truthiness" than "truth".

The Repugs don't want to admit that they think the poor and minorities don't deserve the vote, so they perpetuate this mythology about voter fraud.

I don't know about the U.S., but up here in Canada over the years, I've seen a number of business page editorials about how those non-taxpaying free-loading loser low-income people always vote the wrong way - i.e. against the conservative party. Also, anytime there's a protest or rally about poverty or homelessness, the reaction is "We pay taxes; you don't; STFU."

In the 2007 provincial election in Saskatchewan, the scrutineers for the conservative Saskatchewan Party challenged every Aboriginal voter in at least one area with a high population of voters from First Nations Reservations. So Canada has vote suppression too.