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It Ts no secret that Black
voters have in recent history
overwhelmingly voted
Democratic in presidential
elections "even as much as
90 percent. But, this year Ts -
? election will likely break even
~ that record, revealing a strong
AfricanAmerican solidarity ~
behind the campaign of Sen.
Barack Obama and a dramatic
drop in support for the
Republican ticket, according -
toa patton poll released this
week, |
oClearly, the historic Obama
candidacy is drawing almost
| unprecedented Black support
for the Democratic ticket,
some 15 percentage Tpoints
=! White women
White women voters speak
By Nisa Islam Muhammad
WASHINGTON-White
-. women voters have become
the talk of the election and.
the prize for candidates
trying to win their vote,
Leaders of several national
women Ts organizations
primarily composed of White
women recently came te-
gether to say Sen. Barack "
Obama is their candidate.
Representing omillions and
millions of women, ? the
National Organization of
Women Political Action
Committee, the Feminist ©
Majority PAC, the National
~ Association of Social Work-
ers, the Business and Profes-
sional Women Ts PAC and the
National Congress of Black
Women made the voices of
everyday women heard,
oFrom teachers to social
workers, from business
owners to college students,
women in this country are
lining up behind the candi-
date who is out there every-
day standing up "clearly and
consistently "for women, ?
NOW, oWomen of all ages,
races and ethnicities are
coming together in support
of Sen, Obama and his
_ pledge to fulfill this country Ts
promise of equal opportunity
for our daughters as well as
all our sons. ?
| Bach of the organizations had
completed an issue-by-issue
comparison of the candi-
Pw
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ede a
increase
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-IIL., greets supporters at
the T Maumee Bay Resort in Oregon, Ohio, Tuesday, Oct. 14. (AP Photo/Jae C, Hong)
dates T records prior to the and economic rights for Sarah Palin asthe Republican stands for, ? said Smeal.
announcement and each future generations; stubbornly _ vice presidential candidate has
in dependently came tothe opursue apolicy oféndless forced these groups to take an Polls showed a dramatic
conclusion that Obama was the " war no matter the cost in aggressive stand in thiselec- Switch in white women voters
best man for women Ts rights T humanllives anddollars; and. tion. from Obama to McCain
and women Ts issues, continue Bush failed econom- 4. immediately after the an-
ics and political policies. ? John McCain just doesn Tt get nouncement of his vice presi-
oWomen simply cannot afford it. He doesn Tt understand dential pick of Gov. Palin.
a President McCain, ? said These organizations do not women voters and especially
Eleanor Smeal, president of "__ regularly endorse presidential Hillary voters. Sarah Palin is oWe have to wait and see if
the Feminist Majority. oHe candidates, NOW supported T no Hillary Clinton. Youcan Tt "_ these numbers hold true, ? said
would stack the Supreme. Sen. Hillary Clintonin the attract Hillary voters and. Smeal.
Court and federal judiciary Democratic primary, The women voters with a woman oyr
against women Ts reproductive selection of Alaska Gov, Opposed to what Hillary ee Cun NNPA from
October 2008 2d issue
- Solidarity Behind Obama
Popularity of Clintons Alse
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higher than what Sen. John _ "rby 60 percent since 2004. ? . the general election will . The poll also found that
Kerry received in our poll four surpass existing records both despite the contentious
years ago, ? said David Bositis, Based on the study, Ralph B. national and in individual. © Democratic Primary process,
Senior Research Associate at - Everett, the Joint Center Ts States. ? both former President Bill
the Joint Center for Political president and CEO, predicts . ~ Clinton and Sen, Hillary
and Economic Studies, which a record Black turnout on. The poll of 750 African Clinton (D-NY) have
conducted the study. "Ifthe every level. Americans, taken between increased their favorability _
undecided [voters] break along September 16 and October6 ratings among Black voters.
the same lines as those who. T These poll numbers are with,a.margin of error of plus . | .
expressed a pertescace, Sen. - confirming whatwe © ~~ orminus3.6 percentage - " "--»Accordinig'to the report: oSen. o
Obama would draw 94 percent expected-that Sen. Obarna Ts points, also revealed mainly ~~ Clinton is viewed favorably by
of the Black vote and thereby _ historic candidacy is one issue of note: the 86.4 percent [DCS1] of
tie President Johnson Ts record- oenormously popular with "_ economy with 62 percent of _ African Americans, more than
high share in the 1964 AfricanAmerican voters and _AfricanAmericans naming it Six points higher than she °
election. ? is, in fact, driving significantly the most important national _fared in the Joint Center Ts
higher percentages of them to problem. In that regard, only a 2004 poll, with only 7.8
The new survey ofAfrican. _ identify withthe Democratic handful of respondents - 8 percent viewing her
Americans T political attitudes, Party, ? said Everettina percent - said their financial . unfavorably ?
authored by Bositis, confirms statement. TThese numbers situation improved over the
that support for Obama come on top of record levels _ past year while 55 percent of Former President Clinton was
oamong Black voters is at near _ of participation by Black AfricanAmericans-55 - _. viewed favorably by 85.5
record levels fora Democratic _ voters in the Democratic. percent - said their financial percent of respondents, and
nominee, while Black primaries, allofwhich ? © status was worse thanit was. | eer,
- identification with the _ Indicate that Black turnout in in the previous year. Solidarity cont pg 12....
Republican Party has dropped es ae ;
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Published: Thursday, Octo-
ber 23, 2008 12:28 PM CDT -
Within a week of the ratifica-
tion of the 13th Amendment
of the U.S. Constitution, the
_ KuKlux ~
Klan was formedin Pulaski,
Tennessee. The founder was .
former Confederate general
Nathan B. Forrest, who also
led the Fort Pillow Massacre.
After Forrest secured a truce
with Union troops, he -
- Slaughtered 238 Black
soldiers at Fort Pillow.
With the KKK leading "
terrorism, slave power was _
transferred from private
ownership to states T rights, "
The local custodians for
newly emancipated Blacks
were local sheriffs. Court-
houses were the local head-
quarters for white su- |
premacy. Black Codes would
supplant the slave codes,
Nearly 100 years later, the- |
© | racial factor that can go
by Hazel Trice Edney
; aot:
. 8. Sen. Barack Obama
has moved yet another step ?
closer to becoming America Ts
arguably blan a
Monday night that gave him "
strong leads over Sen, John ?
McCain in several key polls, -
But, some political observers
say the polls may not feflect
a racial undercurrent among
- Whites that could hurt
Obama Ts election on Nov. 4,
A National CNN poll at the
conclusion of the debate "
which focused largely on the
economy - had 54 per cent of
voters saying Obama won
the debate, versus McCain at
30 per cent. Likewise, a CBS
poll favored Obama at 39
percent to 27 percent amon
an pe teh i 3
percent claiming the debate
a8 a draw. Moreover, Gallup,
among the most credible
polling re in the world,
reports Obama actually
in ing McCain by more than
percentage points in a
national po hing voters
who they favor. ° ,
oBarack Obama has opened
upa nine-point lead over ~,
ocketing f
| the latest Gallup Poll Daily
_ tracking, ? states an explanation
campaign to date. ? University
_ Of Maryland Political Scientist
~ minute, this is okay, but I don Tt
i N TON (NNPA) . discount it a little. ? For
_ example, Walters says Nig a
is
_legal structure of the South
'
ox i
remains unaltered. James Cruikshank v. United States.
Chaney, Michael Schwerner and ee :
Andrew Goodman found it Out In February 1886, Sheriff
the hard way. The local sheriff Hamilton had already given
andaposseofKlansmen the keys to the jail at the
intercepted'them on June: courthouse to a white mob.
21,1964. Their bodies were later Will McKinney had been
found near Philadelphia, Missis- convicted of killing Charlie
sippi. Sheriffs in PP! Broadway. The mob dragged
were, invariably, members of " McKinney out of the jail, shot:
the KKK. and lynched him on the
ee een pls. stag re
eS _. , house so servedasthe
On March 17, 1886, Blacks had county Ts auction block and all
assembled atthe Carroll = ave records were housed in ?
County, Mississippi, courthouse j, Be
to support or to give testimony "
on behalf of two brothers who Sen T John McCain ¢o-
had been charged with assault- authored oFaith of My Fa-
ing a white lawyer with intent thers ? Jr ig mostly about Sen.
to kill. The white lawyer had _ McCain, his father and his
assaulted Ed Brown. A gunfight srandfather However, he
ensued, with gunshot wounds Gescribed his anonymous,
to the lawyer, James Liddell. Ed great-grandfather in the book
and Charley Brown were as oinspiring his sons,my _
vigorously prosecuted in "grandfather and great-uncle,
Carroll County. ay to pursue careers as profes-
While Sheriff 17, Hamilton nonal ayee
Was conveniently athome,a " McCain Ts father and erandfa-
white mob entered the Carroll ther became adinirala, MoCa
County Courthouse atid pro-. had a career in the Navy, but
ceeded to murder 23 defense- opted out for politics and
less Blacks. A grand jury Wollld hecame a carpetbagger. He
later fault the Black victims for chose Arizona as his political
their own demise, Even after tome: Arizona had beena
the ratification of the 14th territory of the Confederate
- Amendment, Blacks enjoyed no States of America.
right of self-defense, pas
anil nay Interestingly, McCain failed to
Every white official in the state, reveal fae late of his great-
including Sen. John McCain's " grandfather in the book and
Feed ote! Plauded " for good reason. He was an
emassacte. Sen.Blanche arch white supremacist, In
K-Bruce and Cong. John R. four other books written
Lynch of Mississippi wentto about Sen, McCain, none of
the White House to protest the them even mentioned his
Carrolton Courthouse Massacre great-grandfather,
to President Grover Cleveland, "~~ |
who would cite to them the.
or Obama, But,
John McCain, 51% to 42%, in
- on Gallup.com. oThat matches
_ Obama Ts largest lead of the
Dr..Ron Walters called the
lis astounding, but says
lacks should shave off at least
five points to account for the.
undetected until after people
ee |
oT Tm saying to myself, Wait a
think it Ts that high, ? Walters.
says. oYou have to respect the
polling. But, you have to :
Gallup reports a more than 1
percent Obama lead, that
sident after an. should be thought of as more
like five percent to account for
racial and other prejudices that
_ May factor in the voting booth,
_ The so-called oBradley effect ?,
~ fecalls the 1982 gubernatorial
race between an African-
_ American Democrat, Tom
Bradley, and a White
Republican, George
Deukmejian. Though major
polls placed Bradley wall ahead
of Deukmejian only days and
hours before the election,
Bradley narrowly lost. .
This discrepancy between how
Whites say they will vote and
how they actually vote was
_ observed in the 1989
irginia governor Ts campai
between Risse: Acaeeioon
candidate L. Douglas Wilder
and White candidate Marshal
Coleman. Wilder won, but by
less than a percentage point "
only a few days after polls gave
him as much as an eight point
lead. Walters says because the
y tace was more than 25
years ago and the Wilder race
nearly 20 years ago, racial
_ attitudes have changed. Newer
_ unpredictable - states to now
Supreme Court ruling in
and younger voters must now
_ be factored in and it Ts no
longer unique for an African-
American to be running for
public office. .
Still, the Obama camp appears |
to not take polls for granted, |
working vigorously in so-
called battleground ~ or
excite i voters to go.
to the polls Nov. 4. The
outreach appears to be
working. In'states considered
especially hard for Democrats, |
Such as Virginia, Obama is .
ahead 49.9 to 45.1. In Florida, [
he us up 48,310. 45.3 andin =f
sylvania, he is up a
ing 51.2 to 39.2,
a
Seni Ae
WHODD
eons 9
14 owe
according to |
RealClearpolitics.com. The
Key is economic worries, "
itical observers say,
oThere are no issues, There Ts
just the one issue. It Ts the
enor researcher forthe Join
Center for Political and
Economic Studies. oI Tm not
worried about the Bradley
effect. T ? Even if attempts to
deface Obama or undermine
his reputation with veiled
racial attacks in final days of
the campaign become
prevalent, Bositis predicts it
won't matter,
oIf your house is on fire and
Frankinstein is outside, you
don Tt worry about .
Frankenstein, You wo
about you're going to die in
the fire if you don Tt do
something about it, ? Bositis
says. oThis election is about
hare le aba how
§ are going in the country
right now. And the way they
feel about how things are
going in the country is that
ey stink. They stink bad
Sa
, says David Bositis, 7
By inference, Sen, McCain
admitted that this racial
patriarch and mentor wanted
oto fight for the Confederate
~ States of America to uphold
white sup emai , white sta ioe
Christianity and states T rights,
but he was only 14 years of
age. He upped his age to
18,but to no avail,
His great-grandfather was not
only 4 prominent slaveholder
in Carroll County, but he was
also an influential local politi-
cian and eventually its sheriff.
He took over the.county Ts law
enforcement reins in 1891
soon after the Carrolton
Courthouse Massacre.
Sheriff McCain Tsreign of
terror started during the
_ height of the Colored Farm-
ers Alliance, which had
organized 1,250,000 Black ..
farmers by 1891 and would
rival the all-white Southern
Farmers T Alliance. Interest-
ingly, the Colored Bar of
Mississippi was also formed in
1891. This started the
oGreenville Movement ? to
form bar associations in other
states...
- In 1891, this Black alliance
~had called for a cotton pickers
strike and had supported the
Federal Elections Bill. These
demands, if successful, would
have overthrown sharecrop-
png and would have put
Blacks on an equal par with:
- white farmers.
Local sheriffs initiated another
wave of whife terrorism. The
_ KKK furnished the manpower..
_ Judges donned Black robes
wine War pe
won the \ivit Wat, philosophi-
cally, states T rights would
trump federalism. The Su-
-preme Court said its hands .
were tied to stop white terror-
ism,
This exercise of First Amend-
ment rights by persons of
African ancestry to achieve
Political and economic power.
angered white supremacists.
Local sheriffs were on their
posts. Organized Blacks,
seeking political goals, were a
threat to white supremacy. This
Was a bloody period and it
wrought Plessy v, Ferguson.
The house organ of the Col- _
ored Farmers T Alliance, the
Colored Farmers T Alliance
Advocate, was published in
Carroll County. State-spon-
_ Sored terrorism, and particu-- -
larly in Carroll County, Missis-
sippi, would eventually under-
mine the Colored Alliance
movement.
oIn 1902,when McCain Ts grand-
father was admitted to the U.S.
Naval Academy, it was institu-
tionally racist and anti-Semitic,
While Henry O. Flipper be-
came the first Black graduate
of West Point in 1877, the first
Black graduate of the
U.S.Naval Academy, Wesley A.
Brown, had to wait until 1949.
The Navy fitted the McCains
like othe glove ? fitted O.J.
Simpson Ts hand.
In oFaith of my Fathers ?
McCain said his great-
grandfather ohad expressed his
- Mississi
ospeaker at UAM Ts weekly
Classon Avenue in Brooklyn
patriotism by serving as
sheriff of Carroll County,
ppi ? to suppress
Black resistance, Sen.
~ McCain uses the same term
to describe those white
supremacists who have
heckled ce
- Sen, Barack Obama Ts name
_ at McCain Ts political rallies.
Ih this country, a racist is,
obviously, a patriot.
By the way, the full name of
Sen. McCain's great- grand-
father was John Sidney
McCain. Three generations
of McCains have embraced
his white supremacist
philosophy. White terrorism
continued in Carroll County
throughout the 1960s.
History explains Sen.
McCain. Hopefully, the
Jefferson Davis side of Sen. °
Obama Ts family will not
captivate him.
October 29- "Min. Joseph
Carswell will be the keynote
forum at the Elks Plaza,
1068 Harriet Tubman
Avenue (Fulton Street), near
at 7:30 p.m. His topic is oG-
7 and the Third World. ?
Admission is free.
November 2 "Alton
Maddox and Carlos Russell "
will keynote a pre-Black
Solidarity Da a arse at
Boys and Girls High School,
1700 Fulton Streetin
Brooklyn, at 3 p.m. '
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votes, while 57,085 Republican
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the voting scale with only 1,228.
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Part of the answer lies in voter
registration.
While the N.C. State Board
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regis-tration online per racial
genders, it does show -that
there are more females over-
all registered to
vote than men in the state for all
political parties and unaffiliat-
ed "3,339,661 women to
2,769 414 men as of Oct. 18:
In terms of Democrats over-
all, there are 2,804,383 regis-
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om we have authority
| CHECK YOURSELF.
Do you live what you
preach or are the young
"people around you
getting conflicting
messages? Areyou ~~
saying, oDo as I say, not.
as I do ?. Do you drink.
and drive? Do you lieto.
your children? Do you
| cheat on your taxes?7Do
you hang out with |
hegative people? GET ,
INVOLVED IN THEIR "
_ LIVES. Can you name
-your children Ts friends?
What is your child
studying right now in
_ School? When is the last - |
time you did something,
your child wanted todo? ._ "
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_, tight place and everything ©
goes against you until it |
seems that you cannot hold
for a minute longer, never wi oaks
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Monday, |
October 20,
FAMU T
students
march to vote
The Rev. R.B, Holmes Jr:
called it a oPentecostal
experience ? as tears welled
up in his eyes, Blocks of
students marching from the
campus of Florida A & M
University to the Leon
County Courthouse to vote
on the first day of early
voting with the FAMU band
» playing along with them:
"History being made in
America, ? shouted Holmes,
pastor of Bethel ont
courthouse doors in Talla-
hassee. oIn the name of
Booker T. Washington,
, Martin Luther King Jr..
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name... You Tre prayers are
up. Thank God for FAMU.
Thank God for a new
beginning. Change hase come
to America, ?
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Holmes, a Democrat, who
was an outspoken supporter
of former Republican Gov.
Jeb Bush, especially his
education agenda and
voucher programs, is now
solidly behind Barack
Obama.
oI never thought this day
would come in my lifetime, ?
he said. oTo have these
students vote their history,
vote their heritage, Our
foreparents are shouting and
I Tm overwhelmed by the T
Pentecostal experience, ?
He said he was inspired by
the peaceful march of
students to the courthouse
building; directly across the T
street from Florida Ts Old
Capital, where segregationist
laws were enacted a genera-
tion ago and where, just
blocks away, mob lynchings
were once sanctioned,
"T Tve been involved in
almost all the marches
before but this is certainly
the most significant march of
the 21st Century " to make
sure that this American
dream is not a nightmare, ?
Holmes said, oIt Ts a new day
in America. ?
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