RE: Is it really worth it for Republicans
April 20, 2017 at 12:43 pm
(This post was last modified: April 20, 2017 at 12:55 pm by Aroura.)
(April 20, 2017 at 11:57 am)wallym Wrote:(April 20, 2017 at 11:20 am)Brian37 Wrote: Bullshit, I watched the women's march live on CSPAN, you are flat out lying if you say it was nothing but white women. That march was very diverse. They had black women and Arab women and Native American women and Hispanic women as well as men with different skin tones and backgrounds. Minorities are called minorities for a reason.
No, the tax march was because politicians should not be allowed to hide behind anything. Transparency is what prevents corruption by EITHER party, and utter nonsense to claim that is a skin tone issue.
I disagree.
12% of registered voters are black. That means 20-25% of democrats are black. That's approx between 1 in 4 and 1 in 5.
12% of registered voters are hispanic. They're closer to 70%? democrat. That's 1 in 6ish.
Add those together, that's north of 1 in 3 registered democrats are Black or Hispanic.
Just googled, and took the first results for the women's march:
If more than 1/3rd of your party black and hispanic, it shouldn't feel like Where's Waldo trying to find them.
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And I don't dispute that transparency has nothing to do with skin color. I do dispute whether or not minorities give a shit about it. You don't think poor black communities are watching a million white people turn out for tax returns and 'women' in some ambiguous sensel, and wondering what the hell happened to the BLM movement, or the Flint Michigan issues. You listen to Chappelle, Rock, and Che, and there is some definite disdain towards liberal white folks and their dopey marches.
I think BLM got shoved to the back burner the night of the convention when Michelle Obama turned into the white chick from the first episode of the Newsroom who asks the question about "Why do you think America is the Greatest Country on Earth!?" And oh how the white dems cheered! America's the best! And they got all excited. And then come election day, they couldn't figure out why black people didn't come out.
Many people in this march were other parties. Independents now make up MORE people than Democrats in the US. The participants in the march came from ALL parties (though less from the right), there were many 3rd party people marching. This wasn't, as you try to make it out, Just Democrats
And most importantly, there are a lot of non-white people in that picture. Are you blind? Hispanic and Asian folks can have fairly pale skin still. As a person who lives in a neighborhood where I am outnumbered, statistically, by hispanics, I can tell you they often look pretty much white, just most often with dark hair (and not always that, it's quite normal to have red, brown, even blond hair and be latino). You assume they should all "stick out", but that isn't how it works.
Oh, and I'll back up my assertions with data, not just my own thoughts.
More Independants than Democrats OR Republicans in the US
But if you just wanna go with photos, every photo I look at for the march has people of color in it. The full 1/3rd you claim? Perhaps not. But at least 1 in 4 or 5. And it's not like they all carry signs that say "I'm a person of color!".
Just to be clear, for instance:
Who in this photo is white and who is a POC? I don't know. Do you?
The grey haired lady in the back looks white, maybe. The red head on the left? She could be Hispanic, Native American, or white, not sure. The person in the front left and back right would both look white from a distance shot, but up close I could guess that neither are, though it would just be a guess.
Basically, you are trying to visually identify people who cannot be visually identified, then making broad assed assertions based on your flawed ability to play Where's Waldo with POC, as if they all should stick out like Waldo. They don't. People come in a wide range of skin tones. I know, it's shocking!!
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