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Originally posted by Love_Spell_6
.it seems African Americans will vote Democtrat to the tune of about 90% anyway...sad but true...so I don't think the basketball thing really made a difference...
As for all the other ways the media tries to appeal to black folk...its about the bottom dollar. They look at what sells in the black community and watch videos...and now they got a top seller. I mean Sprite the Remix was funny! This is a capitalist society...and if they can capitalize on these things...so be it.
The real question is when will black folks as a whole stop feeding into this BS.
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Great discussion.
Your point about AAs voting %90 Dem is true, but the real figure is that only %20 of eligible AAs even bother to vote. Compare that to the other interest groups, like the NRA, RTL, and Conservative Christians, Gays, etc. Republicans can write us off and they have proven it by winning Demoratic strongholds, even places where Dems are the majority registered. That is because Black folks only get energized when the cops kill someone, a famous AA is villified in the media or courts (OJ, R. Kelly, Kobe) or a non-AA uses the N word. Bottom-line is that we are looked at by politicians and advertisers as children, either to be ignored, mollified, pacified, or lead astray. We need to grow up and the first stage of that is to be responsible for our own behavior and education.