As black America, we must do whatever we can to get Herman Cain elected.

[Olorun22]

What has voting accomplish

 

[ustreet_monsta]

Wow.

Never seen so many people question the effectiveness of voting.

To get the most out of our democracy you have to do more than vote.

Not voting for Cain. He has no experience in government.

 

[bootsy_jenkins]

Won't vote for Cain.. nor Obama.

My sentiments exactly.

 

[bootsy_jenkins]

Most within this site feel their still slaves right now & whine constantly about how oppressed they are & the white man is so privileged. IMO these hip hop culture types have GOT TO BE the most ungrateful & condescending beings within this planet.

Surely you jest? There isn't STILL oppression in the U.S? You complain about the Hip hop culture yet you are here everyday and have been for years!?! I work in advertising. I have seen with my own eyes the racism in American society perpetuated through this field and therefore into the American psyche. I have seen clients pull people of color out of shots because they didn't want to attract the "wrong" crowds to their establishments. I had a client actually replace a black dude in a shot because he was giving a massage to a white woman. No other race in the U.S has had Cointellpro attacked them when they tried to improve their lives or flood their neighborhoods with cocaine to help the government fund wars.

Get outta here with that madness.

 

[playmaker88]

Lol if you think the republicans gonna let herman cain come off the porch....

 

[bootsy_jenkins]

Voting for that coon/tom will set us back 300 years real talk.

Not a Cain supporter but Barry O is just as much of a coon ass sell out as Cain.

Oh I forgot, Barry is a Democrat so he is all good.

 

[playmaker88]

stop throwing the word coon around..

Nas shoulda never gave yall niggas that.. real talk..

 

[bankrupt baller]

does it really matter who is president?

 

[damnkp]

does it really matter who is president?

not one fucking bit..they rotate parties so each side gets to bitch and moan

 

[PPLSIntiative]

You constantly dwell in white privilege.......Just how damn long are you and yours gonna play the victim game? how many more generations is this mentality gonna continue?? Some black women are teaching their young children/boys to hump them nasty booties of there's.....WTF? kind of mentality is that?

http://www.akdart.com/aff3.html

Foolish and small minded man. You speak from a platform the size of a thimble. You have the worldview and perception of a goldfish in a bowl. You are spoon fed thoughts and opine them as if they are original, relevant, or half way intelligent. Never post on here again. Be banished and swallowed up by the ravenous white masses too ignorant to realize they are as well the butt of the american joke.

 

[bootsy_jenkins]

stop throwing the word coon around..

Nas shoulda never gave yall niggas that.. real talk..

NAS? They been calling cooning cooning since before we all were born. Study history and not hip-hop....real talk.

 

[playmaker88]

NAS? They been calling cooning cooning since before we all were born. Study history and not hip-hop....real talk.

Real talk.. niggas wasnt saying COON like that before Nas dropped that song.. nigga you aint educating shit.. throwing words/labels around that are unwarranted is ignorant

 

[fiat_money]

On the subject of Nas and Herman Cain, I thought these statements were ether:



"Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks, if you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself!" Cain said. "It is not a person's fault because they succeeded, it is a person's fault if they failed. And so this is why I don't understand these demonstrations and what is it that they're looking for."

 

[PPLSIntiative]

On the subject of Nas and Herman Cain, I thought these statements were ether:

"Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks, if you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself!" Cain said. "It is not a person's fault because they succeeded, it is a person's fault if they failed. And so this is why I don't understand these demonstrations and what is it that they're looking for."

These statements are nonsensical. Take for example the Enron situation that occurred years ago. The people involved got rich by purposefully plunging California into an energy crisis. It's not an ether because it is untrue. The people protesting a mostly composed of a generation of people disaffected and disillusioned by the american dream. These are college kids or graduates who did all the right things only to find out that MNC's Ceo, and politicians bartered away the financial security of Americans.

You can certainly blame the rich when a student goes 10k-20k in debt to get an education only to find the job market offers jobs that are only worth half as much. You can blame MNC's and politicians who agreed to export American jobs but cash in on capital gains therefore exporting the jobs that sustain the middle class.

Politicians are at fault when they cater to the needs of the lobbyists and corporations instead of seeing to the needs of constituents which they are constitutionally obligated to do.

Politicians are at fault for treating education like a commodity instead of a universal right within a so called first world country.

People are at fault for not waking up sooner and calling these elected officials to the carpet. For falling in love with rhetoric instead of action.

People are at fault for upholding their end of the rule by consent:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. - Declaration of Independence

 

[bootsy_jenkins]

Real talk.. niggas wasnt saying COON like that before Nas dropped that song.. nigga you aint educating shit.. throwing words/labels around that are unwarranted is ignorant

OK this isn't what the thread is about but YOU honestly say what niggas all over the U.S is saying? REALLY!?! You are the grand puba of nigga linguistics?

I call them how I see them. That shit wasn't unwarranted. Obama is just as much of a fucking Coon as Cain is. I said it and I stand by my statement.

 

[PPLSIntiative]

OK this isn't what the thread is about but YOU honestly say what niggas all over the U.S is saying? REALLY!?! You are the grand puba of nigga linguistics?

I call them how I see them. That shit wasn't unwarranted. Obama is just as much of a fucking Coon as Cain is. I said it and I stand by my statement.

co-sign. The only reason Obama was elected is the further the lie and illusion that america is a nation shifting toward an era of fairness and justice. Obama would not have gotten in unless he was willing to cut the same deals as the other 43 presidents before him. He is as beholden to corporate interests both foreign and domestic as bush an anyone else.

Why do you think American gvt has not so much as even offered an apology for the horrific crime of chattel slavery?

 

[bootsy_jenkins]

co-sign. The only reason Obama was elected is the further the lie and illusion that america is a nation shifting toward an era of fairness and justice. Obama would not have gotten in unless he was willing to cut the same deals as the other 43 presidents before him. He is as beholden to corporate interests both foreign and domestic as bush an anyone else.

Why do you think American gvt has not so much as even offered an apology for the horrific crime of chattel slavery?

Agree 110%

 

[PPLSIntiative]

Who should offer this apology and to whom exactly? I live pretty good so no apology is needed because people fought for me to live this way.

Ok I see. See I must be mistaken let me check my history book.It summarizes "40 million Africans were kidnapped from the continent. Many were lost at sea. Many more were killed and other wise tortured and subjected to subhuman conditions on the continent and in the islands. However all of those people must be the direct descendants of ether-i-am, and if he is good with it then you know it's all good."

But wait... here's a footnote. it reads...

"Ether-I-Am needs to shut the fuck up and realize that the condition of one individual does not sum up nor justify the conditions under which the masses suffer. The civil rights project while ambitious failed in many aspects when you look at the results of 30-40 yrs of legislation garnered under that banner that either been short sighted, circumvented, and/or otherwise thwarted by established powers.

 

[PPLSIntiative]

I mean dats koo n all but u didn' answer the question.

An apology should be issued to the Black community as a whole. Not only for Slavery, but for Post Reconstruction violence and infringement of rights of a specific group of Americans (Blacks) It is strange to me that everyone has received an apology from the U.S. governments for various wrongs, Native Americans for mistreatment, Chinese immigrants for abuse suffered on the west coast, and Japanese Americans for illegal internment during WWII, but Blacks have yet to receive an apology for any of the grievous wrongs.

The government doesn't have to mail a letter of apology to each Black person, nor are people even looking for 40 acres and a mule, which was a promise never delivered, but an acknowledgement of the pain and suffering that is still being felt today. Black communities still suffer from constant intervention and interruption from the government and private interests that have disallowed the majority and median of Black people to establish any solid foundation. Just about every attempt as per your name has been ethered by opposing parties. Let me know if you need a list it's a long one.

 

[garv]

Ok I see. See I must be mistaken let me check my history book.It summarizes "40 million Africans were kidnapped from the continent. Many were lost at sea. Many more were killed and other wise tortured and subjected to subhuman conditions on the continent and in the islands. However all of those people must be the direct descendants of ether-i-am, and if he is good with it then you know it's all good."

But wait... here's a footnote. it reads...

"Ether-I-Am needs to shut the fuck up and realize that the condition of one individual does not sum up nor justify the conditions under which the masses suffer. The civil rights project while ambitious failed in many aspects when you look at the results of 30-40 yrs of legislation garnered under that banner that either been short sighted, circumvented, and/or otherwise thwarted by established powers.

This guy here is a good poster.