And CA-21 is finally settled: Cox(D) beats Valadao(R). I’d say our long national nightmare is over, except NC-9 is keeping the Congressional election alive, apparently.
I said a black man can’t win a statewide election in the South and I was 1000% correct.
Tim Scott is about as black as Clarence Thomas, and that ain’t black at all. Sorry, but when you vote for a judge who actively tried to argue against civil rights…you’re an Uncle Tom.
What I mean was, real black people who represent the actual interests of black Americans and who aren’t trying to suck up to whites, can’t win statewide office in The South. And we can have differences of opinion on what The South is. And I grew up in The South, so don’t try to school me, boy.
Tim Scott isn’t black, because a person is only black if they are a black Democrat; Black Republicans are just BINOs.
South Carolina isn’t in the South (apparently, since you exclude it, apparently); you won’t say why, but being from the South, you know the South when you see it. Apparently, South Carolina isn’t “South” enough because, you know, it elects blacks (who aren’t really black) to statewide office.
Gotcha.
Your opinions are duly noted, and tossed in the trash can where they belong. Along with your opinion of Notre Dame’s football schedule, which is about as well-reasoned. :rolleyes:
It would help if he weren’t ostensibly voting against policies that indisputably hurt people like him. I get that not every black person wants to be identified as ‘black’ and just ‘American’, but stop being naive.
I’m so glad we have someone like you to decide for all of us who’s black and what’s the South (after all, you grew up there!) – takes all the pressure off the rest of us! Want to take your shot at disqualifying the other examples I mentioned? I’d appreciate an official ruling from the Arbiter of Southern Blackness.
Address the substance of Tim Scott voting for someone who basically doesn’t give a shit about whether people like Tim Scott get a chance to vote - much less run for political office. Kinda like Clarence Thomas voting to end federal oversight of state voting rules. I don’t give a shit what someone’s outward appearance is; if someone behaves like a house (slave), then that’s what they are. Yes, what I write is ugly, but I’m not the one voting against the interests of black Americans, which is far uglier. I understand the history of this Southern and American racist culture in a way that apparently Tim Scott and Clarence Thomas are too naive to understand despite their blackness. They hope that if they’ll just be ‘good’ and ‘not really black’ long enough, they’ll be respected. Nope.
I found a Vox article about Republican Martha McSally, who lost her race to Democrat Kirsten Cinema, that had an interesting bit: apparently her campaign strategists wrote a kind of ‘exit memo’:
There is a screenshot of the memo at the link, in case anyone doubts the accuracy of the transcription.
I wonder if anyone in the GOP will pay attention to it before the 2020 elections come around?
Oh, good grief. Call 'em Quislings if you want. Feel free to say they’ve betrayed their race. But saying that makes them no longer black is bullshit. You’re just redefining words to suit yourself.
And how about Doug Wilder - was he a race traitor too, back in 1985 when he first won a statewide race? Or was Virginia already part of the North, way back then?
Some of them may pay attention to it, in the sense of being aware of their dilemma. But they won’t pay attention in the sense of being any less slavishly devoted to Trump.
What does Clarence Thomas have to do with your claim that black men cannot be elected to statewide office in the South? That claim is factually, demonstrably false. But since you made it your goalposts seem to have uprooted themselves, fled the stadium and are now booking it down the interstate.
Donald Trump doesn’t give a damn about the GOP or most down-ticket races. It’s a convenience address that he would change to The Trump Party if he could.
Right now, the count is at 235-199, with the race in NC-09 in limbo for the moment due to a unanimous decision by the bipartisan NC State Board of Elections to not certify the outcome. The apparently final vote count had the Republican up by 905 votes. If for some reason the outcome should be reversed (I have no idea whether there’s any chance of this), it would be the Dems’ 41st pickup.
Absent any change in the NC-09 result, the Dems have 40 pickups.