Black people thinking for themselves...I wonder how white liberals will respond.

That's NOT my point at all. Seeing that 85-90% of black people usually vote dem, discredits you more. I'm fine with blacks voting dem, what I'm not fine with are asshole leftists that call those with a free mind and differing opinions that vote differently slurs and insults.

Syd:

"what I'm not fine with are asshole leftists that call those with a free mind and differing opinions that vote differently slurs and insults" - these "asshole leftists" you mention are people "with a free mind and differing opinions that vote differently" from you. you're criticizing people you hate for allegedly doing things that you're doing in this very sentence (slurring and insulting).

President Obama might say 'Let go of hate and labels. Recognize your presumed enemies as your countrymen, and work together in your common best interest.'

Gosh, he's an eloquent sonuvagun ( :

Your meme is crap (and you know I almost never say that about your memes...) Once again, someone tries to corner the upside of a moral issue for a specific political party.

Being neither a democrat nor a republican, and knowing many people from both parties, I can tell you that party affiliation has pretty much zero percent to do with whether or not a person is racist. Sure, that's anecdotal, but how in the world can anyone look at what the democrat party *has done* for minorities since the 60's (no, I won't go down the long ago worn out path regarding the history of the democrat party and slavery, and the KKK, etc.) and think that it's been anything other than pandering for votes, is a real head scratcher.

Wow, you really don't keep up with current events regarding #blexit

if it's not on the text he gets every morning from the DNC talking Points HQ, he doesn't have a clue.

There's a lot of sound and fury around #blexit, but black Americans have been identifying with and voting overwhelmingly Democrat for a long, long time. (I wish this particular graph went up to '16, but if that data were included, it would not be really any different)

Republicans have been equally hopeful this entire time that the trends depicted in this chart would change. But so far: no dice. Hoping blacks will turn red is the GOP equivalent of Democrats perennially hoping that Texas will turn blue and magically solve all their electoral problems.

So: as far as #blexit translating into a real impact on voting patterns? It's like anything else. I'll believe it when I see it.

Do you not know how to read graphs? It pretty clearly shows democrats are losing african american votes while republicans are gaining, and that those african americans that were independent are choosing to vote republican now, or at least were in '12.

Going from less than 5% black Republicans in ‘08 to somewhere a tad south of 20% in ‘12 might seem significant, but this chart shows that movement was virtually all at the expense of independents (Democrat identification remained constant).

The entire idea of #Blexit is that blacks are *leaving* the Democratic Party, right? This chart doesn’t show that.

‘12 was before the #Blexit hashtag, I believe, so I’d be curious to see the ‘16 and ‘20 data when that comes in. I was just making a broad point about historical trends. If Black Republican identification ever topped 20% I’d say that would be surprising and significant, but would still show approximately 4/5 blacks do not identify that way.

blacks identifying as democrats in '12 is at its lowest point since 1972, and you're going to pretend that doesn't mean they're leaving? blacks identifying as republican in '12 is at its highest point since the '60s. And this isn't even counting what's happened since Trump was elected.

Great to see that you attempt to silence people like a child covering another's mouth.

Someone preventing another from speaking is a "beautiful image"?

It is. That’s why it’s so heavily memed.

You guys just don’t like it when I flip it back on you, which is totally expected.

To me, you will always be just the weird concern troll with the chick pics.

But you do you.

Concern noted.

Almost like it’s your job.

I don’t believe you. Paid troll.

Lol