Sentences with phrase «get blacks voters»

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In 1912 the civil rights activist W.E.B. DuBois endorsed Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson for President and asked black voters to get behind Wilson's candidacy.

And that means that black women, who were our best voter according to the political people in this campaign, have watched their brothers and their parents, their fathers, and their sons go to jail and get convictions young and be forced into a cycle of poverty.

I am white and I supported President Obama in both elections as did many other white voters so it wasen't just the black community that got President Obama elected..

Regardless of ancestry or outward appearance, he is «Black» because it gets him the benefits of that particular block of voters with a simple word.

Certainly when 46 buses carrying 2,500 black passengers from the Woodlawn Organization arrived at Chicago City Hall for voter registration, you could count on getting the desired unbelief and consternation, including police with machine guns.

It's a nice idea that latinos and Catholics are getting out the vote to counter racist immigration laws, and black voters are going to recognize the importance of unemployment and foreclosures.

Of Notre Dame's four first - place votes, two come from résumé voters Black Heart Gold Pants and CougCenter; Florida gets its five from Florida State blog Tomahawk Nation, SEC blog Team Speed Kills, Kansas State blog Bring On The Cats, Notre Dame blog One Foot Down, and Matt Hinton of Sunday Morning Quarterback and CBS Sports» Eye on College Football.

ICYM the second item in my DN column this morning: When he gets done shoring up his support with black voters, Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Andrew Cuomo may have to do damage control with the gay community.

With that in mind, Democrats aren't skimping on the Get Out The Vote operation: the Jones campaign and liberal groups are working desperately to encourage Alabama's overwhelmingly Democratic black voters to go to the polls, regardless of past disappointment and present voter suppression.

Black voters made up about 35 per cent of those casting early and Democrat strategists were hoping for an African - American surge to get them in.

The Dean of the New York Congressional Delegation then rambled a bit about how black voters were supporting gays long before Baptist ministers were something or other (I couldn't quite follow what he said), then Rangel got back on message, adding that no matter what the polls say, at the end of the day Spitzer will not have the votes in the African American community that current polling suggests.

It's tragic because there are millions of African - American voters in New York but they get little attention from Democratic pols because these self - appointed «leaders» are a bunch of lazy or corrupt suck - ups whose idea of gaining power for Black people is to ask Party bigshots to guarantee a winning spot on «the ticket» as if this were 1910 and Tammany Hall still ruled.

We've got black candidates, we've got Muslim candidates, we've got homosexual candidates and I'm deeply insulted, as would every Ukip voter be, that she's compared us to the BNP.

The Manhattan lawmaker has a number of heavyweight labor unions on his side to help get out the vote and has styled himself as the liberal go - to candidate for black, Latino and gay voters.

There's speculation that Rangel's no - longer - majority - black district in upper Manhattan will extend north, all the way to Mount Vernon, in order to regain enough African - American voters to make it more likely that Rangel will get re-elected, and to make it easier, theoretically, for an African - American to succeed him.

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(Washington, DC, February 22, 2018) The satirical tale of one man's encounter to meet his girlfriend's family captured the imagination of filmgoers having the identical effect on voters as Jordan Peele's horror film, Get Out, towered over the competition garnering seven awards, including Outstanding Picture at the 18th Annual Black Reel Awards tonight.

Certain state legislatures got around the provisions with Jim Crow laws, allowing jurisdictions to refuse voter registration to black citizens for a myriad of ridiculous reasons — without any «official» discrimination, of course.

If the Oscars need an excuse to get over their squeamishness about the film's genre, all voters need to do is look at Black Panther's scores on Rotten Tomatoes (97 percent) and Metacritic (88) to have those tastes validated.

While many have claimed the film's handling of Sam Rockwell's racist cop character is problematic at best, one black voter said the film was his «favorite» and it would be getting his number - one slot for Best Picture.

But more and more, especially after the WGA victory for «Get Out,» and the excitement surrounding «Black Panther,» voters may be feeling that Jordan Peele delivered the film of the moment.

As Bush strategist Karl Rove explained in his book Courage and Consequence: «When Bush said education was the civil rights struggle of our time or that the absence of an accountability system in our schools meant black, brown, poor, and rural children were getting left behind, it gave listeners important information about his respect and concern for every family and deepened the impression that he was a different kind of Republican whom suburban voters... could be proud to support.»