So poor, so black, so… ignorant and helpless? (Part II)
I just caught this latest article that had me ready to S-L-L-L-AP somebody.
Here is more self-dumbing down of our own race:
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“Enter former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial who is claiming that the upcoming election will not fair.
Morial runs the Urban League after a two-term stint as Mayor.
At the minimum, he wants more satellite voting polls throughout the nation. He is also saying that the absentee voting process is too complicated.ÂÂ
We are weeks away from the open primary. If the absentee process is too cumbersome, then fix it. Take out ads to let the country know that there is an election. Educate the constituency as to how to vote absentee.”
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Steve Sabludowsky of BayouBuzz.com (the author of the excerpted article above) closes out his article by saying the following:
All organizations including the Urban League, the NAACP and the Rainbow Coalition would serve their constituencies and the city well if race were not injected into the equation. Instead, they should race to help their members (in fact, all people of all races) to engage in absentee voting or vote in person…the sudden chorus of doomsayers who don’t want an election when their constituents have been begging for one (and the Justice Department has ordered one)–really raises some very perplexing and disturbing issues.(full article here)
If a person can read, possess the ability to fill in a freakin’ circle, and find their way to the nearest outgoing mailbox, they can do an absentee ballot. Filling out an absentee ballot is as easy as scratching a lotto ticket. I wonder how many times groups like the NAACP and Rainbow/PUSH have made the notion that lotto tickets were “too complicated” and that further training and education was needed on how to obtain and scratch a ticket? To these groups and those like them, those that happen to be poor and black in this country do not possess the sense enough to find their way out of a paper bag.
This is not the first time this assumption was made about us in history.
Related post: “So poor, so black, so… ignorant and helpless?”
I am dumbfounded by:
(1) The fact that New Orleans is claiming to have problems with their absentee ballot program. Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe something of this nature is in place is every jurisdiction in the country for people who are unable to vote in their elections. Hell, we had Iraqi nationals voting in their election while living here in the US last year, I’m sure this is being made to be a bigger issue than it should be. I always vote, even though my job usually has me away from home for every election… it ain’t that difficult. I’m inclined to believe that those who do not vote absentee ballot would probably not be inclined to vote if they were at home.
(2) The Bell Curve numbers. I’m not sure where they did their research or where those numbers came from, because I cannot believe that Black people are just “intellectually” inferior based on their genetics. Secondly, perception is reality, and the vast majority of people who do not put a big emphasis on education just happen to be Black. It is a bitter pill to swallow, but as Eddie Murphy used to say, “You brought that [sh*t] on yourself!”
Comment by plez... | March 20, 2006
I am flabbergasted after reading the link “This is not the first time…”. I encourage everyone to check it out. The NY Times today had a on point story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/20/national/20blackmen.html?hp&ex=1142917200&en=6ca3ed1b3c6b74ca&ei=5094&partner=homepage
We have yet another lost generation on our hands, with no hope in sight.
The cited study was done in 1994. I wonder what changes have been seen since.
Comment by Dolphin | March 20, 2006