1911 United: Re-elect President Obama
 

Members of Omega Psi Phi and Kappa Alpha Psi have joined forces to educate and mobilize voters to get President Obama re-elected.

"Members of" is an important note because the actual fraternities (NHQ) do not officially endorse political parties and candidates.

1911 United is also not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.

http://www.1911united.com/

http://www.theroot.com/blogs/kappa-a...bama-super-pac

That was going to be my first question.

I can dig it.

It's not clear to me. Do they want to reelect President Obama because they thought he was a good President or just because he is Black?

Where is this coming from?

A place that I don't want to go.

But will if I have to.

*sharpening Hattori Hanzo steel*

I hate it when white folks say this same stupid shit. You probably DIDN'T vote for him because he's black.

How do you know he's white? :rolleyes:

I am totally looking forward to this.

:cool: with popcorn in hand.

Wondering if there was a similar mobilization in support of Bill Clinton for a second term?

Depends on what part of this you're thinking about. If you mean members of GLOs mobilizing to support candidates, I imagine there was. If you mean NPHC org members being involved in voter education initiatives in the African American community, then I'd be pretty sure of it.

If you mean a SuperPAC like was described in the article being formed, I highly doubt it. They weren't allowed by campaign finance laws until the Citizens United case a few years ago.

This is what I recall right now:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_the_Vote

http://www.womensenews.org/story/com...te-black-women

There were organizations in Black communities to mobilize the Black Democrat vote. I do not recall NPHCers being as involved, then again the Internet was not as pervasive in 1996.

Please insert "by Omega Psi Phi and Kappa Alpha Psi" after the word term.

In that case, no. Those Omegas and Kappas are simply combining efforts for Obama's re-election because of the 1911/100th anniversary thing. It's catchy.

I think members of these organizations can support re-election of President Obama for a lot more than just being black. Duh. I can't pretend to know what the American media has been saying about the president but if you list out the substantial (and controversial) things he's accomplished, a person might start to think there are parties out there who just want to bring him down regardless of the facts. (/sarcasm :rolleyes:)

I wish he had taken more risks over the last 4 years, and I'd like to see him win re-election to handle a couple more issues that I think can probably only be handled by a lame-duck president - Cuba for instance. And bringing down Citizens United. And finding a reason to throw the Koch brothers in jail. They've done such a great job of keeping racism and hate alive in America; having a bunch of smart, powerful, savvy black men go after them would be awesome.

And by the way, people vote for president because he's "like me" all the time. What was this crap about voting for Bush because you could drink a beer with him? If a bunch of educated successful professional black guys (and gals of course) want to vote for President Obama because he's like them, what's the problem?

The difference is that never before has there been an option to choose a candidate primarily based on racial and ethnic similarity. All of the other competitive presidential candidates and presidents were white so whites would be choosing someone of the same race regardless of who they liked. Whiteness is often considered invisible so, although whites have a race and ethnicity, the average white person would neither admit to choosing presidential hopefuls based on race nor admit to making sure there is no support for certain presidential hopefuls based on race.

The same goes for when there is a woman as president...if ever. There will understandably be the excitement of voting for a woman and, for some women, it will take a total failure of a president who is a woman to make many women betray the womanhood selection. But, I know that it would take something as minute as a mosquito at the White House to piss voters off enough to criticize and not want to re-elect a woman, racial and ethnic minority, openly homosexual, (insert other power minority group) president.

People can tolerate a whoooooooooole lot from white men but only from white men. People unfortunately called George W. Bush an idiot but they did not turn against white men as presidents (and white men, in general) because of him. And regardless of what people consciously claim because they do not want to be labeled as racist, there are a lot of Americans who think North America's attempt at presidential diversity and "giving Blacks a chance to run the country" has failed if President Obama has failed. There will be no second chance any time soon if whites as the majority decide President Obama needs to sit his LightskinnededBlackass down. (President Obama's conveniently considered biracial with a white mother when white people like him but when white people dislike him he's Black, with a Black family, and he is just like any other Black man who plays basketball LOL)

I am a bit amused that this thread turned into a discussion of this, thanks to Psi U MC Vito.

You couldn't have expected it any other way, right? And, off topic, I saw a black woman professor from Tulane on The Colbert Report talking about the 4 stereotypes of black women and thought of you. Not because of which stereotype you live with but because I pictured you going on a tear about it (in a good way ;)) If you haven't seen it, Dr. Phil, I'd love for you to find it and comment back.

While you're at it, you should also insert "members of" before the word "Omega." Both Dr. Phil and the website to which she linked were clear:

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Originally Posted by DrPhil (Post 2116583) "Members of" is an important note because the actual fraternities (NHQ) do not officially endorse political parties and candidates.

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Originally Posted by 1911 United wesbite 1911 United is an independent political committee and is not affiliated with or otherwise sponsored by any other organization, including Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc.

Regarding the "like me" part of voting: if I heard a female say it once in 2008 about Sarah Palin, I heard it a gazillion times. To which I could only respond, "No, I like you; you're nothing like that nut."

There is a reason why that was on The Colbert Report. ;)

Republican women, predominantly white women, are the majority of the women who claimed Sarah Palin was "like them."

Sarah Palin's alleged stupidity was somewhat buffered by Hilary Clinton's alleged awesomeness. Plus, Palin was only a V.P. hopeful whereas Clinton was a Presidential hopeful.

A lot of Black women expressed the Black Feminist conflict that has gone on for generations: Do I align with Obama because he is "like me" racially or do I align with Clinton because she is "like me" in terms of gender?

(Sure, we can claim that we only align ourselves based on policies and political platforms but the gender, racial and ethnic, religious, socioeconomic status, education, and other demographics of candidates have always mattered.)

For the same reason I can tell that you're white.

Yeah, strangely enough, a lot of the women I know from sorority life and church are predominantly white and, unfortunately, predominantly Republican.

The Republican thing is a cross to bear, let me tell you. I've learned to keep my mouth shut in social situations because otherwise it becomes a whole lot of awkward.

Both Democrat and Republican are bowls of feces.

:rolleyes::confused::rolleyes::confused::rolleyes: :confused:

No stupid Dems, huh! Maybe you should poll people in all 57 states. ;)

Thanks to 1911 United for bringing so many issues to the forefront:

1. Obama is Black but is that why some people support him?
2. Sarah Palin may not be "like me."
3. Democrats and Republicans have stinky feet.

I didn't say Republicans were stupid. I said Palin was a nut.

I didn't say I was a Democrat, either. (I'm not.) I just find the Republicans to be a special pain in the butt.

DrPhil, you always start the best threads.

Cain is still Able....

Republicans are a pain in the right cheek. Democrats are a pain in the left cheek. The Independents and other affiliations are all over the place so they are a pain in the assssssshoooooooole.


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LOL. That was always stupid.

Cain was on The View yesterday. I liked him more than I did the first time he was on The View. He has calmed down and seemed less antsy. I guess he will not provide me with more dumb quotes for my signature.

LOL.

Maybe some of you in this thread should watch this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AazsJTQaew

Might be surprised on you want to vote for

Or not.

When I lived in Atlanta, I would occasionally tune in to Cain's radio show. I always thought that he said some things that I agreed with and some things that were crazy. Just like in his presidential campaign.

I'm white!?! Shit I wish somebody had told me this before.

This is probably the stupidest thing posted on this thread so far. Many of us didn't vote for Obama because of his policies and left leaning ideology. Color of skin had nothing to do with it. I would vote for West, Cain, Watts, Keyes, Rubio or any person who believes as I do.

That's not always the case and we know it.

Not saying that this is the case with folks on GC, though.

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So yeah ... kudos to the Kappas and Omegas doing this.

I think Ghostwriter was speaking for himself.

GC folks, in general, are no exception. There was no screening process. :)

We all know there are exceptions to every case. There are always outliers in every demographic.

Wonder what the Kappas and Omegas would have done if Cain had won the Republican nomination? Food for thought.