Cheap Date: A look at the Democratic Party & Black America

PolitiChicks.com“More and more the Negro vote is becoming a decisive factor in national politics. The Negro vote is the balance of power in so many important big states that one almost has to have the Negro vote to win a presidential election.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr. in his Aug. 30, 1957 letter to Richard Nixon

As we prepare to celebrate Valentine’s Day, the roses that were once fifteen dollars for a dozen have inflated to more than triple their prices just days ago. Why? Because no one wants to be a cheap date. But why has the black vote continued to be a cheap date for the Democratic Party?

In recent years black America has voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic ticket and has received only sweet nothings. The Democratic Party could not have won any of their statewide elections within the last two decades including the 1992 and 1996 elections of Bill Clinton and the 2008 and 2012 elections of Barack Obama without the overwhelming support of black America. If Mitt Romney would have garnered eighteen percent of the black vote in 2012 he would have won by a landslide – such is the value of the black vote!

Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?

One would assume that such a precious commodity to the Democratic Party would be valued as such. Absolutely NOT! One would also assume that under the current Obama Administration the welfare of black America would have a high priority in this administration. Absolutely NOT! The world’s greatest optimist would be dismayed at the status of black America under the Obama administration. According to the most recent US Census Bureau 11.5 percent of African Americans live in government housing or section 8 housing while 13.6 percent receive TANF (formerly known as welfare). Slightly over 25 percent of African Americans receive SNAP (formerly known as food stamps).

The Black American adult population is 26.4 million. Black owned business only produced $135 billion in annual receipts. Blacks make up just 14 percent of the US population but are 37 percent of the US homeless population.

The recent reports show that the Black unemployment rate is 11.4 percent, more than twice that of whites at 5.3 percent. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also shows that as of August 2014 the overall unemployment rate for Black youth (ages 16 to 19) is 32.8 percent. Some reports indicate that the unemployment rate for Black youth in Chicago Illinois is as high as 92 percent.

In 2009- 10 the national graduation rate for Black male students was 52 percent, New York state had the lowest graduation rate for Black males of 37 percent followed by the District of Columbia at 38 percent. Of all adults arrested in 2012, 27.6 percent were Black. The percentage of black adults arrested for murder was 49.3 percent. Black juveniles accounted for 51.5 percent of all juveniles arrested for violent crimes. Blacks only make up 14 percent of the population.

The Democratic Party takes no issue with inciting riots over Ferguson and Eric Garner but are silent on the real troubles of black America.

My dad told me that when it comes to dating ignore everything a man tells you, but pay close attention to what he does. It was good advice for me then and it is good advice for black America today.

Karen Watson

Texas PolitiChick Karen Watson is the Founder and President of GOPBuzz.com, an Internet portal for Republican events nationwide, Karen Watson has written and self-published her first book, Being Black and Republican in the Age of Obama. While a high school student in 1984, Watson attended her first Republican National Convention to nominate Reagan/Bush and has remained active in the Republican Party. As a keynote speaker at various Tea Party and Republican clubs, and as a guest on radio and television, Watson communicates her message that "conservative values are the right values for all Americans, regardless of race or gender". Karen, a native Texan, opened Karen Watson Mortgage in 2004 and currently serves the real estate community in North Texas. She is in the final edit stages of her second book, 'How the Democrats stole the black vote and How the Republicans can win it back.'

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