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Originally Posted by Shemsi en Tehuti
I would argue that both parties are equally as dispicable, which is why I wish they would trash the whole party-system all together. If it came down to Barack Obama and any other candidate head-to-head, I would vote for Obama hands down. However, Ron Paul has been consistent with his political stance for at least the 10 years I have occasionally followed him. He just never won the Republican ticket for me to vote for him.
I find it interesting you villify Republicans only for drugs in the African community of America, when albeit it was brought in under a Republican administration, it was the Clinton administration that instituted the "War on Drugs" which lead to today's shortage of African men in our communities. In America, 80% of all drug users/traffickers/activity is in the suburbs outside of African communities. However, 80% of drug-related arrests are in low-income African-American communities. This accounts for the fact that 73% of all incarcerated African males are in for non-violent drug-related charges. This was an all-out attack to subdue the African male crafted by the Democratic party.
Let me also remind you that for 100 years, it was the Democrats who struck down every "anti-lynching" bill that went to Congress, while the vast majority were proposed by Republicans. The Segregationists, Jim Crow advocates, and Klansmen (or pronounced White Supremacists), were predominantly Democrats. There has been no change in power or economic/political structure since the Civil Rights era, and from looking at our communities here in the States we have undergone just a more sophisticated lynching under Democrats as the vast majority of "urban" areas with predominant African populations have been almost wholely Democratic for almost 40 years.
I don't say this to advocate Republicans over Democrats, but to demonstrate that we have absolutely no security in either party. We must vote for the best candidate that will maximize our opportunity so that (when we make up our minds) we more readily be self-sufficient and self-determined.
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Ok..point taken. I guess you guys know whats best for yourselves....good luck.