He was an independent, and wasn’t politically active around the time of the shooting.
Also Giffords is a Democrat.
There’s very few places in America where Republicans or Democrats are actually non-existent. Most red districts are still 40% or more blue, and vice versa.
It’s not about praising this guy, it’s about the fact that him being elected is the DIRECT FAULT OF THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR HIM. Pretending to be black in order to win an election is wrong, yes, but at the same time this exposes a truth in society. People will vote for a black candidate solely on the basis of the color of their skin. I’ve seen this happen in the last 2 presidential elections, where people will quickly get on the hype train just because he’s black. Shoot, the Boondocks did a parody episode about this, and it hit the mark so well. I really hope they visit this incident in Season 4, would make for some funny stuff.
and its like, no one knows about the issue of education in america and how bad it really is, to praise someone whos likley to fuck up the situation to make fun of black people is fucked up. I’m not gonna make fun of chinese people back in 1930s if a Japanese came to power through some underhanded means abusing their ignorance. This shouldn’t be praised at all.
This raises a question I’ve been thinking about for a while…Why did Colin Powell never run for President? He was a good mix of both parties and had actual combat experience. He wasn’t a pussy like the left but he wasn’t a gigantic prick like the right. He was just right in that sense. So I wonder why he never ran?
I dunno about the politics but the fact is that most soldiers haven’t been doing too well in federal office the past 25 years. Very little of congress are veterans, and veterans in congress are all very soon to retire in the next decade.
How many black republicans can you name over Black Democrats? .Anybody who believes that skin color is the only reason why black vote for democrats is a idiot. Think about the amount of times Democrat have supported Blacks vs Republicans. Think all of the most famous black politicians, they will probably support a democrat… Black vote for Democrats because Democrat cater to their views. Fuck sakes MLK, and Malcolm X were leftists more then they are right wing.
Even white people like John Kerry, Kennedy, FDR, Clinton all got the black vote on lock. You don’t remember, John Kerry got 88% of the Black vote, Bush got 11% of the black vote. It’s no different then the dominance Obama had in his election. This white candiate fooled people by stated this…
If Colin Powell ran (1996), he would of likely been the first black pres (I think he wouldve run away with the Republican nomination anyways). However, he was prob smart enough not to (or not power hungry enough to) put his family through the ordeal.
you cared enough to actually refute these youtube commentors on using race as a focal point in elections when all these black politicians were dems all along
They don’t actually want to give you answers as to why democrat policies are detrimental to society, they’re just here with the agenda to call people stupid
I’m not going to attack the voters because they have enough to worry about now. I just want to bring up the point that nobody is talking about how his opponent did nothing about it. There’s no way he could have not known what was going on. Someone in his committee got those flyers and told him that Wilson is trying to portray himself as a black man. He should have called him out on it…