Cotton Pickers will decide this Election

[Love_Spell_6]

Here we go..time to pander to the African American community and scare us into thinking if we elect Bush we'll go back to picking cotton .. it is so sickening!


CRAWFORD, Texas — President Bush's campaign intensified criticism of Sen. John Kerry's views of the war on terrorism Sunday and the Democratic challenger fought back forcefully as the two candidates prepared for the final debate on Wednesday.
At church services in Miami on Sunday, Kerry sought support from minority voters and equated his campaign with the civil rights movement. (Related stories: Bush hits West | Kerry in N.M.)

"We have an unfinished march in this nation," he said at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, stumping with Kerry, urged the congregation to go to the polls.

"The power is in your hands, hands that once picked cotton," he said.

Bush received 9% of African-Americans' votes in 2000; their support is key to Kerry's hopes of carrying Florida.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politic...ign-rndp_x.htm

[IowaStatePhiPsi]

I thought cotton was all harvested by machine these days.

[Love_Spell_6]

Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi
I thought cotton was all harvested by machine these days.

Nah...anything Jesse Jackson can say...true or untrue...valid or invalid...he'll say to get people on his side..

[Phasad1913]

Originally posted by Love_Spell_6
Here we go..time to pander to the African American community and scare us into thinking if we elect Bush we'll go back to picking cotton .. it is so sickening!


CRAWFORD, Texas — President Bush's campaign intensified criticism of Sen. John Kerry's views of the war on terrorism Sunday and the Democratic challenger fought back forcefully as the two candidates prepared for the final debate on Wednesday.
At church services in Miami on Sunday, Kerry sought support from minority voters and equated his campaign with the civil rights movement. (Related stories: Bush hits West | Kerry in N.M.)

"We have an unfinished march in this nation," he said at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, stumping with Kerry, urged the congregation to go to the polls.

"The power is in your hands, hands that once picked cotton," he said.

Bush received 9% of African-Americans' votes in 2000; their support is key to Kerry's hopes of carrying Florida.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politic...ign-rndp_x.htm

WTH???


I try to ignore the crap you say but this is too much. That one little half of a statement Jackson said is not saying that Black Americans are going to go back to picking cotton if they vote for/elect Bush. This is rediculous. I am not too much of a Jesse Jackson fan but mischaracterizing his statement like that is unfair, childish and flat out ignorant on your part.

If you want to vote for Bush, then do so but you need to quit all this mess by starting these threads and criticizing other people for voting whatever ways they choose to.

[Eclipse]

Originally posted by Love_Spell_6
Here we go..time to pander to the African American community and scare us into thinking if we elect Bush we'll go back to picking cotton .. it is so sickening!


The Rev. Jesse Jackson, stumping with Kerry, urged the congregation to go to the polls.

"The power is in your hands, hands that once picked cotton," he said.


http://www.usatoday.com/news/politic...ign-rndp_x.htm

It's Monday morning and maybe I'm still 1/2 asleep, but I don't see where Jackson says anyone will be picking cotton if we elect Bush. Can you help me out?

What I infer from his comment is that hands that did backbreaking work, that were disinfranchised and could not be a part of the policitical process has the power to elect the next president. Where is the scare tactic?

[Munchkin03]

Originally posted by Phasad1913

I try to ignore the crap you say but this is too much. That one little half of a statement Jackson said is not saying that Black Americans are going to go back to picking cotton if they vote for/elect Bush. This is rediculous. I am not too much of a Jesse Jackson fan but mischaracterizing his statement like that is unfair, childish and flat out ignorant on your part.

If you want to vote for Bush, then do so but you need to quit all this mess by starting these threads and criticizing other people for voting whatever ways they choose to.

I'm >here< with you on this one, man. I don't like JJ at all, really, and it's pretty obvious that that isn't what he said. You have to be downright paranoid to get that from his statement.

Please, please...wake me when this is over.

[Love_Spell_6]

Originally posted by Phasad1913
WTH???


I try to ignore the crap you say

Well if you consider it crap..then ignore it! Did I tell you who to vote for? DO I even care who you vote for? Nope. If you can't handle what I post then don't read it! Simple as that.

PS I am not your child ..so don't tell me what to do...OK? THanks.

[Phasad1913]

DO I even care who you vote for? Nope.

Aparantly you do! Girl go sit down somewhere and chill out bacuse you obviously have some personal issues that you need to ponder.


-and believe me, I am GLAD you are not my child. I would hate to have had such misguided offspring. If you were, you would certainly have much more sense than that which you display.

Later

[Dionysus]

Haha Love_Spell_6 LIVES to piss off the black folks on GC.

[AKA_Monet]

Originally posted by Dionysus
Haha Love_Spell_6 LIVES to piss off the black folks on GC.


ETA: BTW I am no longer undecided, I'm voting for Kerry. So I guess not only will I be picking cotton, but I will be going to hell also (according to LS6).

I guess you are outta your "cotton pickin'" mind...

[Senusret I]

Originally posted by Dionysus
Haha Love_Spell_6 LIVES to piss off the black folks on GC.


ETA: BTW I am no longer undecided, I'm voting for Kerry. So I guess not only will I be picking cotton, but I will be going to hell also (according to LS6).

True: I bought a t-shirt that says "Satan is my Homeboy" this weekend.

Also true: I ran into a dude at a party that was wearing the "Jesus is my Homeboy" shirt, and I almost changed into mine to pick a fight.

ETA: I got this picture from the future. If you look really close, you can see me and Dionysus.

[Dionysus]

LMAO

I didn't know a "satan" version existed. I ought to wear that to church one day, lol.

Originally posted by Senusret I
True: I bought a t-shirt that says "Satan is my Homeboy" this weekend.

Also true: I ran into a dude at a party that was wearing the "Jesus is my Homeboy" shirt, and I almost changed into mine to pick a fight.

ETA: I got this picture from the future. If you look really close, you can see me and Dionysus.

[hoosier]

Rev. Jackson writes in the Atlanta Sunday Paper (sundaypaper.com):

1: ... strenuous efforts are being made to intimidate, impede, and obstruct the vote of ... African-Americans

2: ... the Republican Party ... built its majority by becoming a whites-only party across the south

3: In 2003 in Philadelphia, voters in African-American areas were systematically challenged by men carrying clipboards, driving a fleet of some 300 sedans with magnetic signs designed to look like law enforcement insignia.

If I was writing on the Op-Ed page:

1: The big lie still lives

2: Another big lie. Two top African-American GA politicians endorsed Reagan for President. The runner-up in this spring's primary for Senate was Herman Cain, an African-American who owns a bunch of Godfathers' Pizza places.

3: Another big lie. Does he have a picture of any such sedan?

I am somebody ... with a brain.

[Optimist Prime]

I like the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Would never vote for a religious offical for gov't office though, because church and state should be seperate, but its good to have him around to bring up points.

There was no scare tactic in that article I could find. Are you trying to say that black people never picked cotton?

[33girl]

If there are hands that once picked cotton voting, I'll bet the bodies they are attached to smell somewhat funky. (And I don't mean George Clinton funky.)