ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith spoke on Wednesday at Vanderbilt University. In his remarks, he offered a rebuke to African Americans' strong voting alliance with Democrats. Here's part of what Smith had to say:
What I dream is that for one election, just one, every black person in America vote Republican..........Black folks in America are telling one party, ‘We don’t give a damn about you.’ 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.
2012 (Black vote was 13 percent of total vote)
Obama 93%
Romney 6%
2008 (13%)
Obama 95%
McCain 4%
2004 (11%)
Kerry 88%
Bush 11%
2000 (10%)
Gore 90%
Bush 9%
1996 (10%)
Clinton 84%
Dole 12%
Perot 4%
1992 (8%)
Clinton 83%
Bush 10%
Perot 7%
1988 (10%)
Dukakis 89%
Bush 11%
1984 (10%)
Mondale 91%
Reagan 9%
1980 (10%)
Carter 83%
Reagan 14%
Anderson 3%
1976 (9%)
Carter 83%
Ford 17%
Percentage of the black vote for the GOP Presidential Nominee
6
0
10
20
30
40
50
1940
’50
’60
’70
’80
’90
’00
2010
Of personal note: Hypothetically speaking, what if a White ESPN personality went on the record and said that all White people should vote a particular way? Racial hypocrisy? Hmmm
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